Interim Project Planner

Bristol LOT1 JP00030112 Interim Project Planner – MOD

This role may require travel and meetings within the UK.Developing; maintaining and documenting appropriate plans and controls for the project in line with the change lifecycle

• Ensuring the appropriate governance disciplines are observed
• Reviewing project and supplier documentation and plans to highlight any issues that may compromise delivery.
• Facilitating resolution of project issues and mitigation of project risks
• Maintaining project documentation
• Making a constructive contribution to project management processes
• Produce project documentation
• Manage issues; risks; dependencies; assumption and other controls
• Arrange; prepare materials; facilitate; chair and document meetings
• Monitor and report on progress
• Manage project resources including staff; contractors and spend
• Assure suppliers plans; project controls and progress reports
• Manage QA processes
• Demonstrate learnings achieved on the project

Experience required:

• Track record of successful delivery in an equivalent role with equivalent level of responsibility in complex IT application projects
• Knowledge of industry standard methods and tools
• Experience of working successfully with IT supplier staff and representatives from business teams to delivery new systems
• Experience of working successfully in large; complex organisations
• An awareness of the MOD Acquisition Lifecycles, MOD Approval and Scrutiny Process, Cabinet Office and Treasury Approvals is required.
• Good grasp of the principles of effective Risk and Issues Management with some experience of application in one or a number of low complexity change initiative(s).
• Understanding of PD methodologies, processes, tools and techniques gained in working on change initiatives.
• This may include, for example: change control, planning and scheduling, business case development (not exhaustive).
• Strong stakeholder management, communication (oral and written), financial, information management and data analysis skills.

This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.

Pay Rate: £278 - £350 per day pay range, subject to IR35 status

N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

Giving yourself the best chance of success:

• Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
• Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
• Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
• We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
• We recommend that you consider sending us by email (see * below) a suitably ‘tailored’ CV for each role that you apply for, noting that job boards, sites and aggregators will generally store only one version of your CV, which can be a bit limiting...

“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

• Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
• Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
• Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
• Additional Requirements:
  • SC - security clearance.

Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:

• Any local authority/public sector experience
• Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for

Client Category: Central Government Body

Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 6 months.

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

Whilst our ads will appear on partner sites such as Indeed, they are also listed - and will appear first - on our own website: Triumph Consultants Limited: www.tclrec.com

• If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via research@tclrec.com but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:

Job Ref: Bristol LOT1 JP00030112 Interim Project Planner – MOD

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