IT Project Planner

IT Project Planner – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid working (Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham or London)

As an IT Project Planner your main responsibilities would be:

· Owning the overall Digital Project Plan and leading the collaborative planning across stakeholders, establishing priorities, conflicts and issues, helping everyone to navigate a complex environment.

· Working with Change PMO to reflect Digital’s plans in the Programme’s High-Level Plan.

· Working with Strand Leads to keep the team’s MS Project Plan up to date with progress, new activities, and changes.

· Reporting on the plan’s overall progress and critical path.

· Being an integral part of the FAS IT Central team and PMO.

· Managing planning risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) for Digital Project Plan and escalating them, where necessary, to the Digital PMO and SCS.

· Leading and supporting some of the transition activities.

· Providing plan updates to DWP teams and 3rd suppliers and incorporating appropriate changes and feedback.

· Playing an active role in the FAS IT delivery community, improving ways of working

You’ll have relevant experience in:

· Proficient and skilled using Microsoft Project.

· IT project planner experience.

· Experience of managing IT projects.

· Relevant IT Industry experience.

· Relevant MS Project experience.

· Experience of project management and working with other teams and suppliers to build complex Project plans.

· Tracking the delivery of large-scale digital products and services within a managed IT environment.

· Experience of DWP Governance processes.

· Translating information from stakeholders to ensure we understand objectives.

· Experience of working in a large government department

· Good stakeholder management experience in a complex matrix structure, fostering strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers and Digital teams.

· Collaborate with stakeholders to share information, resources and support.

· Use critical thinking to support decision-making and to challenge decisions from others to ensure the deliverability of the plan.

If this IT Project Planner role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

Application deadline: 15/04/2023
Reference ID: PSR1JP00068090