About the role

  • Projects Manager leading high-profile projects and programmes in support of Barnet Council's strategic priorities. Ensuring effective governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across services and directorates.

Responsibilities

  • Defining project scope and leading on the design of business cases, PIDs and project plans.
  • Ensuring project controls and governance arrangements are in place, including appropriate risk and issue management.
  • Analysing financial and other resource requirements of projects and programmes.
  • Ensuring benefit realisation plans are in place and benefits are tracked.
  • Undertaking gateway reviews and quality assurance activities.
  • Providing regular reports to board meetings, senior management meetings and committees.
  • Ensuring change is effectively managed, advising on engagement activities or other controls.

Requirements

  • Experience managing multiple projects and programmes, working at a senior level.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder and relationship management skills, with proven ability to integrate well into a team and build relationships with a diverse group of senior stakeholders, including councillors.
  • Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary project team, working across services and directorates in a virtual environment, including planning and delivering work to specific timescales.
  • Ability to problem solve and identify innovative solutions to challenges.
  • Ability to work effectively, flexibly and constructively with colleagues in a team.

Benefits

  • 31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays.
  • Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which provides a valuable. guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
  • Work-life balance options may include hybrid working, flexitime, job share, home working, part-time.
  • A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers, supermarkets, energy suppliers and more.
  • Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership.
  • Excellent training and development opportunities.
  • Employee well- being training programs including confidential employee assistance.

Job title

Projects Manager – Corporate

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£56,376 - £61,653 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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