Project Manager (Digital & Change)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO5-PO6
Salary: £50,574 – £55,620 per annum (Pro Rata)
Contract Type: Fixed-Term contract until 31st March 2026
Closing Date: Sunday 10th August 2025
Interview Date: Wednesday 20th August 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The successful candidate will lead the planning, delivery and reporting of transformation projects in Haringey, ensuring they meet critical success factors, comply with legal requirements, and achieve set targets within a large and complex stakeholder environment.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Implement high-quality project management across Haringey’s Change team
• Develop collaborative relationships with key project stakeholders, project sponsors and external partners.
• Work with the programme lead, project team and other key stakeholders to agree key deliverables, timescales, approvals pathways and develop and maintain project management artefacts.
• Undertake control practices including tracking project plans, risks, issues, change control, lessons learned, communications and engagement.
• Use innovative change methodologies
• Monitor and track the impact of change projects, and clearly articulate the benefits of change work.

About the Team

The Change Team is a newly-formed and ambitious team, delivering large-scale transformation projects in Haringey. As a Project Manager, you will report to the Programme Manager within the Change Team. The core drivers of the team include:

• Strategic Thinking: We value those who can think strategically and provide innovative ideas to improve our service.
• Collaborative Working: We work together with internal and external partners to achieve our objectives.
• Performance Management: We emphasize managing performance to ensure high-quality projects and services that offer the best value.
• Cultural Change: We are driving cultural change and new ways of working to align with our corporate and service priorities

About You

The successful candidate for this role will possess:

• Excellent leadership and management skills to drive change and innovation.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities to work effectively in a complex stakeholder landscape.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify challenges and create solutions.
• Experience in managing and delivering projects to achieve high performance, with flexibility to handle competing priorities.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a passion for making a difference in the community.
• Ability to thrive in an outcome-driven team with a can-do mindset.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk