IT Programme Manager required for 2 month contract (likely to extend) Home working and flexible office locations - up to £650 per day (inside of IR35)

Working for a high-profile Public Sector organisation, we are looking for an experienced programme manager with extensive IT Service Management and Technology operations experience to programme manage the transition of Service management and technical operations back in-house from an external service provider.

Key responsibilities:

• Business case - Develop and clearance of the business case with project leads and SMEs
• Communications & Stakeholder Management - Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and highlight need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.
• Guidance - Provide direction and guidance on development to team and more broadly across departmental profession.
• Resource Management - Secures resources and directs planning scheduling, resourcing and estimating for complex and large-scale programmes.
• Risks & Issues - Oversee risk and issue management. Ensures mitigations are in place and resolved through negotiated agreement.
• Benefits realisation - Ensure realisation of benefits for customers through planning and designing and that project outputs meet programme requirements.
• Programme Performance & Controls - Maintain overall integrity and coherence of programme and governance framework to support each project. Plan programme assurance activities.
• Leadership vision & objectives - Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Lead the programme to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Dependency Management - Work with project leads and business as usual to ensure dependencies are actively managed, act as an arbiter and enforcer and resolve issues between the various elements of the programme

Experience required:

• Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing a Technical Operations within IT Service Delivery Function
• Experience of working with partners to develop recruitment and retention strategies to implement Technical Operations within IT Service Delivery function
• Demonstrable experience of managing Contract Exit Plan and management of exit criteria
• Demonstrable experience working with TUPE and assignment of these staff to posts
• Demonstrable experience of matrix managing large, diverse teams
• Demonstrable experience of managing large programme budgets/ finances (ideally over £10m)
• Have experience of managing projects programmes using Project Online, Microsoft Project or similar tool

This role is to start ASAP and will pay up to £650 per day umbrella (inside of IR35)

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