AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Senior Digital Project Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. This is a hybrid working contract (occasional travel to Swindon required).

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Drive adoption of industry best practice agile delivery, designing and implementing the programme agile delivery structure.
• Facilitate coordination across all programme Agile teams, ensuring dependencies are identified and managed.
• Take responsibility of the Programme Backlog, leading it through the Business Design Authority prioritisation.
• Act as a bridge between stakeholders, Programme Leadership, and Agile teams.
• Monitor programme progress, resolving challenges, and escalating risks as needed.
• Ensure milestones, timelines, and deliverables align with organisational priorities.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and value-driven outcomes.
• Management and delivery of plans to ensure all necessary preparation and execution tasks and dependencies are included.
• Ongoing management of those plans to achieve the delivery goals.
• Work with key stakeholders to manage the deployment of all aspects of the project assigned to Identify and mitigate potential risks for delivery of products.
• Operate as a full member of the team; supporting the Programme Manager and other team members as directed.
• Project Manage all aspects of specific work packages.
• Management of a detailed Jira plan for the medium term, including resources; costs.
• Development of stakeholder relationship with suppliers; including preparation of joint plans; proposals and any design and build documentation.
• Completion of the high level plan through to Go Live and BAU handover.

You'll have:

• Ideally SAFe / Agile PM certified
• Experience of The Government Functional Project Delivery Standard
• Experience in the delivery of projects; with particular emphasis on the management of suppliers and stakeholders
• Experience of governance and risk control frameworks Good planning and organisational skills Strong leadership; people and communications skills.
• Possess strong analytical skills with a proven ability to persuade and influence senior decision-making.

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

Disability confident 

As a member of the disability confident scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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".