Role: Assistant Project Manager REF 1678503
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/Alconbury - Mondays & Fridays working from office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £300 per day
Spinwell is recruiting for an Assistant Project Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
The development and delivery of new transport infrastructure is vital to the future economic wellbeing of Cambridgeshire.
The skills required to deliver such a programme are considerable and require engineering knowledge and understanding of project and programme management, procurement and commissioning of infrastructure projects, stakeholder engagement, land negotiation, transport planning and statutory legal processes.
Importantly, the Project Manager has responsibility for driving forward innovative ideas across a programme of schemes. The role is vital in ensuring effective and efficient delivery of schemes across a wide range of transport projects.
In addition, the role requires a strong ability to bring together a wide range of stakeholder groups including Parish and District Councils, resident and campaign groups and businesses, setting delivery outcomes for projects and defining service outcomes across a range of needs – e.g., community engagement, maximising contract savings and achieving value for money.
The role supports the Group Manager and other managers within the Project Delivery Directorate in delivering the Councils objectives, through joined-up service planning, community engagement and the flexible use of resources.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
- Well-developed customer awareness and sensitivity in consulting and dealing with the public
- Ability to think insightfully and innovatively, based on an underlying understanding of key principles to provide innovative and beneficial solutions
- Ability to maintain a thorough awareness of and anticipate external and internal factors likely to affect the local government and able to find solutions to complex situations
- Political sensitivity and the ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to get stakeholder (including staff) buy in to new, and sometimes unpopular, ideas
- Ability to negotiate with key partners and businesses to build collaborative solutions that recognise the diverse needs of our communities
- Ability to lead and build project teams to deliver quality projects
- Comprehensive IT skills
- Can visit stakeholder offices and sites, when necessary, where public transport is limited
- Can attend meetings which may have difficult access.
- Be able to attend meetings out of hours when necessary
If you are an Assistant Project Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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