Project Manager – People

Job description

About Haringey

Starting salary: PO5 (£49,083 – £52,116) – PO6 (£51,093 – £54,129)
Work Location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 hours, Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 8th September 2024, at 23:59

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

Are you passionate about innovation and thrive on challenges? Haringey Council could be the perfect place for you. We are on the lookout for dedicated Project Managers who will lead projects within our People Services who can ensure that knowledge and information flow seamlessly, while also being resilient and adaptable to changing priorities.

As Project Manager, you will have the ability to think about a project beyond the basic skill set needed to manage it, identifying and developing project objectives, including but not limited to scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and success criteria through collaboration with the programme manager, other project managers customers, and delivery partners. You will also have the chance to lead multiple workstreams throughout the full project lifecycle ensuring high quality and cost-effective deliverables.

Effective communication will come easily to you as you build positive relationships with colleagues and business partners to support teamwork and successful deliveries and to keep everyone informed.

About the team

You will engage with residents and external partners and should thrive in a fast-paced environment. Additionally, you will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation, including Members and senior leaders. We seek self-motivated and organised individuals with a keen eye for detail to join our established team. Ideally, you should be eager to enhance services for Haringey residents and have experience working within a change programme management office.

About you

The ideal candidate should either hold a relevant professional project management qualification or have significant experience in project management, with a minimum of three years. They must possess sound project planning and process management skills, along with a robust understanding of the project lifecycle process. Experience in managing projects within a public sector environment, particularly in care services such as Adults, Children’s, Public Health, and Housing demand, is essential. This includes the development of business cases, project initiation documents, and other key project portfolio management documentation. Additionally, the candidate should have experience working effectively with a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, senior managers, customers, and partners. Excellent organisational skills are crucial, along with the ability to manage their own time and balance competing demands to ensure objectives and deadlines are met.

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 of 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.