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Job description

Project Manager (Community Justice)

Building on the success of Grand Avenues, the ten-year reducing reoffending pilot, the Project Manager (Community Justice) will support the development of joined-up, place-based approaches, which reduce harm and reoffending, whilst working with families and communities in a way which provides positive intergenerational outcomes and promotes community wellbeing.

The successful candidate will be a strong advocate for the role of local communities. You will build trusted relationships with local communities, VCSE organisations, the academic community, and other key stakeholders to understand issues, ideas, and best practice, and draw on them to strengthen existing pieces of work and develop evidence-based plans for future work.

To succeed, the successful candidate will need to build strong connections with other teams to deliver their own objectives. Experience of working with or for community organisations, or on issues relating to neighbourhoods and communities would be a significant advantage.

We would expect applicants to have excellent written and oral communication skills, experience of collaborating and working with a diverse range of stakeholders, and a good working knowledge of project delivery fundamentals.

Overview of the job    

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the project board. They are responsible for ensuring that the project produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits.

Summary   

The Project Manager will require professional expertise in the effective use of project methodologies and techniques in managing a variety of projects and the day to day delivery of the project team.

The job holder will be responsible for the project producing a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the Business Case.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties    

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Day to day management of the project
• Ensures project delivers to quality, time and budget within agreed tolerances
• Prepare appropriate project documentations in conjunction with any Project Assurance roles, and agree them with Project Boards.
• Plan, monitor and control the project in order to achieve programme/project objectives
• Create a mechanism to identify, measure and report risks and mitigation.
• Ensure that progress is appropriately reported, controlled and maintained
• Identify the resources and processes necessary to deliver each stage of the project's lifecycle
• Responsibility for change control and any configuration management
• Act as a central point of contact and source of information for stakeholders. Prepare and report to the Project Board through Highlight Reports or any other relevant documentation
• Lead and motivate the project management team.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder.

Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,549, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £12,987 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.