Senior Digital Project Manager
Job summary
The Senior Digital Project Manager is a key leadership role within the IT Department, reporting directly to the Group Head of Digital PMO. You will be responsible for the scoping, planning, and management of a diverse portfolio of business critical digital projects. Acting as a technical lead and subject matter of expert, you will bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery. You will exercise significant autonomy and initiative to navigate complex situations and ensure that digital solutions are integrated effectively across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
As the the Senior Digital Project Manager, you will be responsible for the end to end delivery of complex IT and digital portfolios that are pivotal to the Trust's strategic priorities. You will lead cross-functional teams and manage technical personnel to ensure project milestones are achieved on time, within budget, and aligned with objectives. Utilising your significant experience in technical project management and your ability to interpret complex data, you will define project scopes, allocate resources, and manage delegated budgets. Your role involves acting as a technical subject matter expert to evaluate technological choices and manage interdependencies while ensuring all solutions meet local and national reporing standards. To succeed, you will apply advanced negotiation and facilitation skills to hold stakeholders to accoutn, resolve conflicts, and lead robust change management processes in challenging, high pressure environments. Throughout the project lifecycle, you will maintain rigorous governance through risk escalation and professional reporting to senior Trust leadership.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
Project Leadership and Technical Delivery
- You are responsible for the scoping, planning, management, and oversight of a number of complex IT and Digital projects.
- You must define project scope, deliverables, and roles in collaboration with stakeholder, ensuring all required products are reviewed and produced.
- Technical leadership responsibilities include requirements management, design, implementation, system integration and quality assurance.
- You will evaluate technological choices regarding hardware, network, and code to find a balance between cost-benefit and future implications.
- Your are expected to identify, communicate, and track project vision and goals, ensuring they support organisational strategic objectives.
Operational and Resource Management
- You will lead and motivate cross-functional teams, assigning and monitoring the work of technical personnel to ensure steps remain on time and within budget.
- Responsibilities include defining, acquiring and allocating staff and other resources necessary to achieve project objectives.
- You will assess and manage IT interdependencies between projects and establish major milestone reviews throughout the project life cycle.
- You will manage and track progress and other KPIs, providing regular highlight reports through the governance structure.
Financial and Governance Accountability
- You will manage delegated budgets for each project, ensuring all financial targets are achieved and adhere to Standing Financial Instructions.
- Your must ensure all information is stored and accessed in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Trust Information Management policies.
- You are responsible for identifying, clarifying, and escalating risks, issues and changes associated with project delivery.
- You will lead on the production of communication materials and engage with stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with post graduate qualification or experience in an IT project management related subject
- Project management qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualification in management, organisational development, change management or similar
- Programme management qualification
Experience
- Significant experience of Technical Project Management
- Experience of assessing and managing complex IT interdependent projects
- Experienc of managing and motivating a team
- Previous experience of using project tracking systems
- Previous experience of analysing and presenting information effectively in report form, in discussion and in presentations where there is need to persuade and motivate others to change their attitude and behaviour
- Significant experience of managing high profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Address
Sandwell & West Birmingham Hopsital NHS Trust
Birmingham
B71 4HJ
Employer's website
https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/