Information Technology Project Manager

IT Project Manager

Salary: £42,400 per annum

Location: Homebased

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract for 12 months, Full-time – 35 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

Are you a proven IT Project Manager looking for a challenging role where you can make a significant impact? Join our compact IT Project Team, where you'll manage multiple projects simultaneously and undertake Business Analyst tasks such as requirement gathering and task analysis.

We adopt the Prince2 Methodology of project delivery, mostly waterfall with some hybrid approach.

Although this is a fully remote role, mostly working with teams of people who are also remotely based, there will be some travel required as part of this role for either departmental needs or to successfully deliver the projects being managed.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Lead the Data Governance and IT Security Project, forming the core of your workload, alongside other technical projects.
• Collaborate with both internal technical teams and non-technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Comfortably work with colleagues across various departments, regardless of their technical background.
• Operate within a hybrid project delivery approach, utilising the Prince2 Methodology, which is well-established within our organisation.
• Provide support, advice, and guidance to colleagues self-managing projects.

Let's talk about you

• In-depth experience in writing fully budgeted business cases, with the ability to compile justifications, complete project plans, ascertain costings, and provide options, based on input from sponsors and SMEs.
• Demonstrable experience in project lifecycle delivery in a technology or Social Care setting (preferred)
• Happy to lead meetings, present work up to C-Suite.
• Willing to manage remote project teams and stakeholders and deliver projects in this way.
• Experience of business analysis, process mapping and re-engineering.
• Understanding what good design, development and testing looks like to enable robust discussions with technology resources and suppliers on the project.

Good to know

Interviews to be held 23rd and 25th July 2024.

Contact: Scott Jones at scott.jones@actionforchildren.org.uk for any questions about the role

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.