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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include:

Project Management

• Managing the set-up and delivery of projects, working with colleagues and subject matter experts on the strategic planning, scoping, design and the delivery.
• Deliver significant projects for NHS England that supports system transformation and delivers corporate transformation across the new operating model. 
• Manage the whole lifecycle of a project, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to the project board.
• Support organisational change and the uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
• Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
• Demonstrate flexibility and support new programmes and projects where necessary.

Service Improvement

• Develop appropriate, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
• Develop and deliver, as required, training relating to project delivery and managing change. 
• To ensure all public contact with the Programme office is of highest professional standard.
• To embed patient and public involvement where appropriate at all levels of decision making.
• Be a champion for best practice, learning from experience and from others, supporting the spread of innovation within the organisation. 
• As part of a Project and Programme Management community of practice contribute to the development of projects and programme management approaches and ways of working across the organisation(s)

Analysis & Judgment

• Identify options using agreed criteria and use initiative to test solutions in advance.
• Contribute to the development of key performance indicators and milestones for specific projects.
• Interrogate and analyse, sometimes highly complex, information to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes.
• Write and submit regular project reports for the programme board showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist

Communication

• Provide additional support to the wider project management team through working flexibly to directly assist other projects where they may be a subject matter expert or through research and development and delivery of materials as required.
• Provide expertise of best practice change and project management methodologies.
• Communicate, engage and build relationships with key strategic policy makers to influence the development of strategy and policies. 
• Engage and manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve a common purpose and realise mutual benefits where there may be contentious decisions to be made around performance or finance etc.
• Forge close working relationships across the organisation to facilitate an effective matrix style approach to delivery of projects and programmes of work

Financial Management 

• Provide support as required to the budget holder for specific projects, tracking and reporting on spend.
• As required, support the monitoring and management of  the budget effectively, acting in accordance with organisational financial policies and procedures.
• Constantly strive for value for money, ensuring financial balance is achieved.
• Provide financial updates and reports as required

People Management

• Provide day-to-day management of a small team as required. 
• Support the recruitment of new team members.
• Responsible for undertaking Personal Development Review and personal development of team members.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage interactions between other internal functions as required.

Research & Development 

• Co-ordinate research and development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
• Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information

Policy & Service Development 

• Works within organisation and national guidance, interpreting national guidance relevant to the project and acting a subject matter specialist within the specific project area.
• Develop standardised operation processes and procedures for projects, and work with senior team members to develop project management policies that apply across NHS England.
• Keep patient interest at the centre of all activities and involve   patients and public in policy development and project and   programme delivery where appropriate. 

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