Project Delivery Manager

Location: Newcastle — regular onsite presence required

Rate: between £450 to £525/day INSIDE IR35

Duration: ASAP start until mid-August

Clearance: Active SC required - MUST BE within your current role, or was active in the role you left very recently.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Digital Project Manager / Delivery Manager to support a complex digital programme within a large public sector environment.

The role will focus on creating a clear programme-level view across multiple business application workstreams. Individual delivery managers are already in place across each area, so this person will sit above the detail, bringing everything together into one consolidated plan and ensuring progress, risks, issues, dependencies and priorities are clearly understood.

You will work closely with the internal delivery lead to improve visibility, coordination and governance across the programme, ensuring senior stakeholders have a clear and accurate view of delivery progress.

• Provide programme-level oversight across multiple digital delivery workstreams
• Build and maintain a consolidated delivery plan
• Track delivery progress, risks, issues, dependencies and successes
• Strengthen visibility, coordination and prioritisation across teams
• Work closely with delivery managers, internal teams and external suppliers
• Maintain strong governance at programme level
• Produce clear senior-level / Director-level reporting
• Support senior stakeholder engagement and decision-making
• Proactively identify delivery challenges and drive mitigation plans

• Strong experience as a Digital Project Manager, Delivery Manager or Programme Manager
• Experience managing complex digital programmes with multiple workstreams
• Strong programme governance experience
• Excellent RAID management experience
• Experience producing high-quality senior stakeholder reports
• Confident working with senior stakeholders, ideally up to Director level
• Experience coordinating internal teams and external suppliers
• Active SC clearance required

• Experience with data platform migrations
• Previous public sector or central government delivery experience
• Experience working in complex, multi-supplier environments

This role would suit someone who is comfortable bringing structure, clarity and control to a complex delivery environment, and who can give senior stakeholders a joined-up view of programme progress.