Disability Confident
HouseProud
Living Wage

Project Manager - 12 month FTC

Salary £58,647
Location Chelmsford
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This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We are looking for a Project Manager to plan, execute and manage projects to meet management’s strategic objectives and ensure delivery is within budget and on time. The role will place strong emphasis on stakeholder management, change management and understanding the impact of change on users, customers and colleagues. Working closely with project sponsors, the postholder will help define and agree project scope, outcomes and success measures, while collaborating with the PMO and wider business to develop project management capability across Delta.

What you'll be doing

  • Promote and support the full project lifecycle from business case to benefits realisation. Ensuring that projects are clearly communicated, understood and approved.
  • Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to define and agree project scope, objectives, outcomes, delivery timelines, costs and success measures, translating these into effective, risk-controlled projects with clear ownership and governance.
  • Ensure project requirements, stakeholder needs and user impacts are fully understood, prioritised and documented, with appropriate engagement and communication plans in place to support successful adoption of change.
  • Lead effective stakeholder engagement and change management activity, ensuring users are involved appropriately, impacts are assessed and understood, and communications are tailored to support readiness, transition and adoption.
  • Ensure project risks are fully understood in terms of the probability and impact and that there are clear and approved mitigation plans in place.

What we are looking for

  • PRINCE 2 Practitioner qualification (or equivalent).
  • Experience of managing project team members either directly or via networked matrix management approaches.
  • Previous experience of administering multiple simultaneous projects is essential.
  • Experience of assessing user impact, planning change activity and supporting teams through transition to ensure changes are understood, adopted and embedded.
  • Ability to identify and manage dependencies between projects, programmes and wider business activity, ensuring delivery plans are aligned and impacts are clearly communicated.
  • A proactive, methodical and analytical approach to problem solving, with good attention to detail.

Please note the office expectancy of this role is as follows: This role will require you in the office a minimum of 1 day a week this may be more as per business and project needs.

Benefits

  • The salary for this post will be £58,647 Per Annum.
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Robust employee reward and recognition programme
  • Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Volunteering programme
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays, 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year and 1 wellbeing day per annum.
  • 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need. We operate a hybrid working policy at Delta Housing Ltd.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications or successfully appoint a candidate before the closing date. We encourage early applications to avoid disappointment.

 

 

INDLOW

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive.

We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

We dare to be different and look for opportunities to evolve and experiment. We’re comfortable taking calculated risks and aren’t afraid to fail and learn from our mistakes. We’re confident in our abilities and the contribution we can make whilst being sensitive and responsive to the needs of our people, customers and communities.

We show our understanding for others in everything we do and continually look for ways we can be helpful. We always assume best intentions and approach each situation with a warm heart. We give our support wherever we can and go out of our way to be kind and considerate to each other and our customers.

We welcome ideas and opinions that are different from our own and look for ways to bring them into our organisation and work. We value diversity of experience and thought, and we’re proactive in addressing bias or prejudice wherever we find it. We treat everyone fairly and strive to be truly inclusive in every way.

We’re resolved to do our very best for the people we serve and our employees by being our best every day. We’re resilient in the face of difficulty, finding creative ways to overcome obstacles. We’re resolute in achieving our objectives and persist until we succeed. We’re focused in our pursuit of excellence and don’t compromise on quality.

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