Project Manager

Working as part of a programme team to provide project management and business analysis expertise. You will be a flexible, self-motivated individual with experience of working on a number of concurrent projects.

• Co-ordination of internal/external meetings and workshops including chairing project meetings

• Preparation of material and reporting in accordance with agreed programme governance

• Maintaining/updating/ collating weekly project status reports and actions, issues and risk logs and contacting project team members appropriately

• Ongoing monitoring and management of the Programme Plan (once established)

• Maintaining and monitoring resource schedules, flagging up any issues/conflicts

• Submitting the risk/issues log for review

• Attending meetings/workshops producing minutes and chasing up actions when required

• Management of deliverables on the project shared drive i.e. version control; deliverables tracking etc.

• Covering general administrative duties

• Supporting the Programme Manager in day to day activities required to deliver the project

• Responsible for documenting and mapping AS IS operational processes including interviewing operatives, managers, conducting workshops and gaining process approvals

• Responsible for documenting and mapping TO BE operational processes including interviewing operatives, managers, conducting workshops and gaining approvals for the new enduring processes

• Responsible for ensuring that Business Requirements are fully developed and documented

• Ensure that the business requirements are analysed fully, with appropriate engagement from the business teams including the review of current processes and data sources

• Co-ordinate the definition and documentation of Acceptance Criteria for the acceptance of the solution prior to go live

• Ensure that a full impact assessment is carried out with the delivery teams within agreed timescales

• Act as an interface between the business and delivery teams

• Act as the central control point for business analysis activities including working with client and third party supplier business analysts and technical teams, as appropriate

• Track requirements through the delivery phase and ensure compliance

• Provide assistance and support for the definition of the operational processes and procedures

• Assist the business to produce workarounds where requirements cannot be met fully

• Responsible for ensuring that the User Acceptance Test Data is defined and agreed

• Support the User Acceptance Testing activity and act as the main interface between the business and technical teams Principle Accountabilities

• Production and management of key project documents e.g. PID, AIRs etc.

• Creation and management of the Project Plan

• Maintenance of the Resource Schedule

• Preparation and publication of Weekly Progress Reports

• Process mapping

• Business Requirements

• Gap Analysis between the Business Requirements and Solution Design

• Documented Acceptance Criteria with input from all impacted business areas

• User Acceptance Test data definition and support