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Website British Council
Job Description:
The British Council has a significant contractor workforce around the world, including agency workers and consultants working through service contracts. These are managed through a variety of arrangements. We have an opportunity to increase efficiency, enhance our flexible resourcing capability, and reduce risk, by implementing appropriate policies, management mechanisms & service delivery solutions.
We are creating a Project Board and a Project Leader role to build our understanding of the as-is, scope and build the business case for strategic solutions, and lead implementation.
Job Responsibilities:
- To the Project Executive/Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for delivery of projects in accordance with the Project Business Case, including key outputs and outcomes, delivery to time, cost and quality requirements
- For defining and agreeing the scope of Project delivery, and securing its sign off by the Executive/SRO and key stakeholders
- For implementing and/or designing Project Governance, and securing approvals from SRO and GIS Head of Project Management as a minimum
- For designing the Project structure, workstreams and key resource plan
- For developing, and managing the end to end Project Delivery Plan, including the proactive monitoring of progress to plan, and processes to secure inputs from responsible delivery or workstream leads
- For the day to day management of the Project, including reporting, management of risks and issues, team and supplier management, management, tracking and reporting of the Project budget
- For proposing and agreeing with both the Project Executive/SRO and Head of Project Management the key Project control documents.
- For representing, where directed, the Project in wider British Council governance forums, such as the Global Portfolio Office, Audit and corporate functions such as Corporate Communications, Finance or Human Resources
- For contributing and playing an active role in the development and evolution of GIS Project and wider Change Delivery practices, methods and tools, coaching, mentoring and information sharing
Job Requirements:
- Data migration,
- Global rollout of technology
- Prince 2 Foundation/Practitioner qualification
- Project management of teams
- Project Office Processes
- Development project methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM)
- Complex technology/system procurement,
- Management of third-party suppliers,
- Solution integration,
Job Details:
Company: British Council
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Application Deadline: N/A
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