AMS PSR

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month hybrid contract based in Exeter.

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

• Lead and deliver projects to achieve agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, governance, and effective management controls for the project and team.
• Define project structure, organisation, and delivery methodologies, ensuring smooth transitions between phases.
• Manage project budgets, finalising costs and tracking delivery to remain within financial targets.
• Identify resource and skill requirements, deploy and develop team members, and manage a medium-sized team.
• Build and manage stakeholder relationships, while proactively identifying, mitigating, and escalating risks and issues.

Essential:

• A demonstrable track record of successful project delivery, ideally supported by PMQ, PRINCE2 and/or PRINCE2 Agile qualifications.
• Experience of successful contract management with external supplier organisations.
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including external partners such as suppliers, academia and public sector bodies.
• Experience of working within a technology and/or science environment, preferably related to large-scale scientific computing.
• Experience of working within a large-scale programme comprising multidisciplinary teams.
• SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

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, the Met Office 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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".