Senior Project Manager

The Role and the Department

The Computing and Information Services (CIS) has an annual operational budget in excess of £12m, multi-million pound programmes of change within year, and approximately 185 staff. The Senior Leadership Team report directly to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) with the following portfolios: Strategy and Change; Operations; Information Systems, and Cyber Security. CIS work with departments across the university to provide academic, teaching and administrative services that underpin the day-to-day activities of the whole organisation. Details of the Digital Strategy and ongoing work can be found at https://www.durham.ac.uk/digitalstrategy.

CIS is a friendly, but demanding department, where much is expected and can be achieved by competent, self-motivated individuals who work well in teams. The department works in a hybrid capacity depending on the job role and individual personal requirements with its physical base at Boldon House – Durham University.

The University has an exciting programme of activity ahead which spans a range of technical infrastructure enhancements and business led IT projects with corresponding business change. In this role you will play a key part in a number of initiatives or one large project with corresponding complexity.

The key responsibility of the role is delivering the required project deliverables, within the specified time frame, within the specified cost, and to the quality agreed. Additionally the role will:

• Lead the planning and implementation of project initiatives.
• Identify and manage project dependencies, risks, issues and the critical path.
• Oversee and manage project scope, tasks, goals, deliverables and timelines in accordance with enterprise project management tools and philosophies.
• Monitor the progress of project(s), highlighting exceptions as required.
• Coordinate staff teams to deliver project successes.
• In conjunction with others, support the delivery of project benefits as presented in the Business Case.

The departments PMO is a driven and motivated team with a strong vision for what project management can achieve. We are looking for a multi-skilled project manager with a track record of successful project delivery to join our productive PMO team.

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