Grade/Salary: E1-E2 £49,157 to £60,081 (depending upon experience)
Location: Hybrid role – you can expect to be on-site with our client in Milton Keynes for 2-3 days a week.
Contract type: Permanent – Hybrid
Travel: To client sites – mainly Milton Keynes
Hours: 37 hours per week
Reporting to: Stephen Clarke – DSR Senior Project Manager
The Role
Owing to our continued growth and trusted reputation, we are seeking a skilled and proactive Technical Project Manager to join our Digital Sensitivity Review team. This position is ideal for someone with a solid understanding of project management with strong technical awareness. You will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and engineering teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality.
You will work closely with government department customers, data scientists and software developers together with the rest of the Project Management team. The ability to talk and engage with stakeholders at all levels, both technical and non-technical is important.
Digital Sensitivity Review
The Digital Sensitivity Review (DSR) service is an AI innovation led data toolset and service, developed by SVGC Ltd and being run in partnership with FCDO Services, for identifying sensitive information in digital files for redaction and archiving to The National Archive to meet the needs of the Public Records Act. Already delivered to FCDO, HM Treasury and Home Office with Department of Business and Trade and Ministry of Justice in feasibility phase, all major and minor government departments will become DSR-enabled, with other departments in the immediate pipeline. The DSR is a unique and leading-edge technology and has been heralded across government as „…the only game in town“ when it comes to the needs of effective digital data sensitivity identification and redaction.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities will be to..
Project Planning & Delivery
- Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables
- Create and manage project plans, timelines, and milestones
- Track progress and adjust plans as needed
Technical Oversight
- Understand system architecture and technical constraints
- Work closely with developers, data scientists, and technical assurance
- Work closely with Service Management for software integration and deployments
- Identify technical risks early
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary contact between technical teams and business stakeholders
- Communicate progress, risks, and changes clearly
- Present updates to senior leadership
- Identify, assess, and agree handling plans of risks
- Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
- Work closely with Service Management to manage change control processes
Budget & Commercial Oversight
- Manage project budgets and forecasts
- Support procurement management
THE PERSON
- Must currently hold Security Checked (SC) with willingness to be DV cleared. Note that this role is a ‘Restricted’ role which means the role holder must hold SC clearance.
- Recognised Project Management qualification to Practitioner level.
- Strong project management skills, especially in technology delivery and digital transformation.
- Strong analytical skills for project performance analysis and reporting.
- Strong, demonstrable, rapid written and verbal communication skills, to provide technical deliverables and reports.
- Project analysis skills and a wide range of toolset experience, including confidence and familiarity with tools such as MS Project and JIRA.
- Strong configuration control approach and pro-active approach to documentation.
- Strong client-centred stakeholder management, with experience in designing and delivering pilots, demonstrations and User engagements.
- Willingness to take managed risks and assess impact effectively.
- Comfortable in inviting challenge and where appropriate involving others in decision making.
- Ability to identify and address team or individual capability requirements and gaps to deliver current and future work.
- Ability to motivate a wide range of personality types and situations.
- Experience in following appropriate financial procedures to monitor contracts to ensure deliverables are achieved.
- Scheduling and Timescale Risk Analysis.
- Organisational definition and management.
- Project Management methodologies such as Agile, Scaled Agile and Waterfall.
- Tools such as MS Project.
- IT service management approaches such as ITIL v4.
THE PERSON
- Experience of Project Management in Defence & Security and/or other Government Departments.
- Degree (or equivalent) in a numerate subject such as, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or Physics.
- Cloud support experience (e.g. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
CULTURAL FIT
Seeing the Big Picture
- An ability to focus on the goals and overall intent rather than just individual tasks.
- Taking an active interest in expanding your own knowledge.
Changing and Improving
- Taking the initiative to suggest ideas for improvement of yours or others’ approaches in an appropriate way.
- Learning new procedures and seeking to exploit new technologies and helping colleagues to do the same.
Making Effective Decisions
- An ability to speak with relevant people in order to obtain the most accurate information and seek advice when unable to proceed.
- Monitor, handle and store corporate and government data in accordance with security procedures and protocols.
Leading and Communicating
- Listen to, understand, respect and accept the value of different views, ideas and ways of working.
- Put forward your own ideas in a clear and constructive manner, choosing an appropriate communication method.
Collaborating and Partnering
- Readily identify opportunities to share knowledge, information and learning and make progress by working with others, and other organisations.
- Proactively seek others with whom collaboration would deliver benefit.
Building Capability for All
- Take responsibility for quality of your own work and seek opportunities for improvement through continuous improvement.
- Take account of the diverse contributions of team members.
Achieving Commercial Outcomes
- Recognise factors which contribute to achievement of commercial outcomes and proactively support them.
- Gather and use evidence to assess the costs, benefits and risks of a range of delivery options.
- Understand that all actions have a cost and choose the most effective way to do something in a resource efficient way.
- Handle numbers confidently, collating information ensuring accuracy of data.
Managing a Quality Service
- Work with team to set priorities, create clear plans and manage own work to meet the needs of the delivery teams.
- Communicate in a way which meets and anticipates the customer’s requirements and promotes an effective view of SVGC.
INTERESTED?
Send your cv with a covering email outlining how you meet the essential and desirable criteria listed above to Judith Armatage – Recruitment Business Partner – j.armatage@svgc.co.uk
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