Business Change Project Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a highly-motivated team that prides itself on providing a great service, shaping and delivering crucial change and real value to the business?

With a mission to protect and safeguard local communities from serious and organised crime, the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) is a Police unit responsible for delivering specialist and niche capabilities to Thames Valley Police, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, Surrey Police and Sussex Police.

We are recruiting for a Business Change Project Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead the delivery of essential projects and related business change activities at force, bi-lateral and regional level. You will design, plan and co-ordinate all aspects of the project to ensure the effective delivery of project deliverables, leading and directing the work of project teams.

As a Project Manager, you'll bring drive and expertise to the role and will take pride in seeing the business-wide outcomes of your work. You will proactively manage engagement with stakeholders and those impacted by the change, working in collaboration with key enablers. You will be accountable to the programme manager and project sponsors for high standards of project governance and delivery. You will effectively manage risk and issues within the project, initiating corrective action as appropriate and escalating matters to a programme level, when necessary.

You will have recent and relevant experience in business change project management with proven evidence of starting up a project and successfully delivering and embedding change. We are looking for candidate with strong stakeholder engagement and good communication/influencing skills. You must hold a PRINCE2 practitioner (or equivalent) qualification.

This role is part of a national, regional and local network and as a result you will be required to travel for business purposes. This may include travel across the UK and is not limited to the south east. Therefore, you will require a full UK driving licence and be expected to drive force vehicles.

You will be asked to demonstrate flexibility regarding working hours, in line with operational demand and occasionally this may require working away from home.,

• Good standard of education with a relevant post-graduate or vocational qualification or equivalent experience and evidence of CPD.


• Recent and relevant experience in business change project management with proven evidence of successfully starting up a project and delivering and embedding change.


• PRINCE2 practitioner qualification (or equivalent).


• Strong interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills. The ability to build effective relationships and negotiate with multiple stakeholders including the involvement of those impacted by change.


• Proven planning and dependency management skills including experience of prioritising across multiple work-streams. The ability to support senior stakeholders and sponsors to make decisions about priorities based on project outcomes and dependencies.


• Proven and relevant experience of budget management and resource allocation in a project context.


• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve project deliverables. The ability to manage project teams, define roles and delegate effectively.


• Must have capability to travel to different locations across the Force, undertake all assignments in a timely manner, and attend regional and national meetings as required.


• Experience with successfully applying change management tools and methodologies to deliver organisational change.


Desirable

• Experience of managing collaborated projects across multiple organisations and with external partners.


• Experience of delivering change in a unionised environment, successful negotiation with staff associations and understanding of the police service and culture.
  
  At SEROCU, we are committed to reflecting the communities we serve. We know that our organisation will truly benefit from the variety of thinking, approach and skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service. We, therefore, strive to ensure that our recruitment is open and accessible to all.
  
  As well as a fulfilling role, we offer a good work/life balance, a supportive and welcoming place to work and excellent terms including a generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement., Annual leave: Ranging from 24 days annual leave up to 30 days leave, dependent on your broad band and length of service.


• Generous defined benefits scheme, via the Bucks County Council Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).


• Blue Light Card: Staff have the opportunity to join the national Blue Light Card scheme which offers discounts on a variety of products and services to those working in the emergency services, NHS and Armed Forces (for example, 10% off in Starbucks).


• Military Resettlement Bonus.


• Benefits Platform: Access to the TVP Benefits Platform which offers a range of discounts from top high street and online stores (provided by Reward Gateway)


• Career Development:


· Coaching and mentoring support

· Developing Potential Programme

· Support for Study

· Training courses

• Financial:


· Contributory pension scheme

· Debt management support

· Group insurance scheme

· Savings scheme

• Health & Wellbeing:


· Chaplaincy

· Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

· Flexible working & Supportive culture

· Discounted gym membership

· Mind Blue Light support

· Occupational Health services

· Reimbursed eye tests for VDU users

· Welfare services

· Workplace needs assessments and support

· Free Flu Vaccinations

• Travel:


· Bus concessions

· Cycle to work scheme

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £49,886.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension


• Cycle to work scheme


• Employee discount


• Employee mentoring programme


• Free flu jabs


• Free parking


• Health & wellbeing programme


• On-site parking


• Sick pay