Project Manager - SEND

My client a southeast London local authority seek an experienced SEN Project Manager to start an ongoing booking asap. The Project Manager will be required to support the SEND improvement programme. 

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Senior Service Development Officer works as part of a team responsible for supporting the identification, operationalisation and delivery of key strategic priorities, within the Children & Families Division. The Post holder will have a key role in leading and delivering the whole continuous improvement and project life cycle for a range of development and transformation projects aimed at ensuring increasingly effective services which deliver improved outcomes for children, young people and families. This role is a key part of Service Development Team and will deputise for the Service Development Manager as necessary. The post-holder will have a significant role in building working relationships and collaboration across the division, wider council and multi-agency partnership. The post-holder will lead with the Service Development Manager, the development of the function within the Division and the visibility and effectiveness of the function in delivering multi-disciplinary programmes that impact across the Council and Borough. This will include co-ordinate the delivery of a complex programme of work centred on delivery of divisional improvement plan.

In order to be considered you will have relevant project experience in a SEND setting.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:

• Good working knowledge of the social, political and economic issues relating to the work of local government.
• Good working knowledge of the national and local context for Children & Families Services, including Early Help, Safeguarding, Looked After Children, Care Leavers and Youth Offending Services.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of legislation, policy and the regulatory frameworks governing Children’s Services.
• A relevant project management qualification or extensive experience operating in a programmes and project role
• Knowledge of performance management frameworks and in particular the interpretation of key performance information to understand the impact of services on outcomes for children and young people.
• Understanding of process and system review approaches, tools and techniques

Experience:

• Experience of business analysis, systems, process and policy review.
• Experience of managing budgets and business planning processes;
• Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of analysing complex problems, and deploying problem solving techniques to present well researched proposals for change.
• Significant experience of applying a broad range of communication skills techniques to convey information that is often technically difficult and complex. 
• Experience of programme management or system development
• Experience of strategic, policy and project development and planning
• Experience of working unsupervised

Ongoing temp booking

Hybrid London SE1

Day rate starting at £250 LTD UMB but flexible for right candidate PLS NOTE PREFERRED DAY RATE ON CV

Immediate start