Project Manager - Donor and Session Programme

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. As a Project Manager at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you'll lead projects that help deliver meaningful change across the organisation, supporting services that ultimately improve outcomes for donors, patients and colleagues. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you'll take ownership of projects from initial business case through to delivery and benefits realisation. You'll bring people together, manage risk, oversee budgets and ensure projects deliver the outcomes expected. This is an opportunity to make a genuine contribution while growing your expertise in a complex, ambitious organisation where learning, collaboration and continuous improvement are at the heart of what we do. You will be working on our Donor and Session Programme (DASP), a major transformation programme focused on improving donor experiences, supporting colleagues and modernising how we plan and deliver donation services to better meet patient needs. DASP is at an exciting stage of its development. We're defining how the programme will operate, what digital capabilities it needs, and how it will be delivered. Joining now gives you the opportunity to influence key decisions, shape the future direction of the programme, and help deliver lasting change., As a Project Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team to lead projects that deliver essential change benefits to help improve and save lives, supporting senior business leads. The post holder will be expected to lead a number of standalone projects or projects with a programme. The duties will include:

• Be accountable for full projects life cycle, in line with NHSBT standards and delivery methodologies, by leading on governance, design, planning and implementation of projects to achieve the project outputs and expected benefits within agreed tolerances.
• Be the subject matter expert on all aspects of the relevant project, supporting and contributing to the overall delivery of a standalone project or a programme, including the development of a business case.
• Lead and motivate a diverse and multidisciplinary project team by ensuring the team members, understand their role in the project and are best placed to deliver assigned projects tasks/outputs projects.
• Be accountable for ensuring appropriate and proportionate governance and control over the project, including minimising risk/issues to deliver successfully. Inform the efficient use of resources, through regular monitoring, tracking and visible reporting of resource usage, including budgets. Track, monitor and produce high quality and fit for purpose progress reports that drive timing decision making, meeting audience needs including for CPMO.
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.