We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Exeter to assist with the appointment of a Project Manager, on a 6-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £358.50 - £463.50 per Day

Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery: Lead and deliver projects in alignment with the overarching programme goals, ensuring timely, cost-effective, and high-quality outcomes.
• Project Management: Provide day-to-day management and leadership for the project team. Oversee project execution with strong leadership and management controls for complex projects classified within the Project Complexity Delivery Framework (PDCF).
• Agile & Lean Practices: Coach and lead software development teams in Agile and Lean methodologies, ensuring efficient, adaptive, and iterative project delivery.
• Life-Cycle Perspective: Apply expertise across multiple phases of the product life cycle, recognising the right timing for progress and key deliverables. Collaborate with other Agile delivery operations throughout the project life cycle, engaging relevant stakeholders at appropriate stages.

Qualifications:

• Extensive project management - PRINCE2 Practitioner and/or APM (Association for Project Management) PMQ Certificate and/or equivalent project related experience in Waterfall or Agile methodologies, with proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - ability to work collaboratively with multiple internal and external stakeholders at all levels, managing conflict, negotiation and working in a matrix organisation.

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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