IT Project Manager
ROLE: IT Project Manager
LOCATION: London
DURATION: Permanent
HOURS: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
WHO ARE WE?
Our client is a nationwide charity and a leading provider of residential centres, foyers, supported accommodation and move-on housing for single and homeless people across the UK.
They are on a transformation journey, striving to assist their residents and their employees alike, to help them in Transforming Lives. Our clients hard work has been rewarded as they’ve been awarded a spot in the Times Best Companies Top 100 Not-For-Profit Organisation To Work For 2020.
WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR?
They’re looking for you (if you’re someone who is looking for a meaningful job that makes a difference, whilst being provided with flexibility and real potential for growth). As an IT Project Manager, you’ll help them push the limits to provide a great service by working energetically and at pace on IT projects, managing technology and business systems.
Doing your job brilliantly means using your energy and agility to get projects to the finish line. You’ll deliver a peak performance by managing our projects portfolio, planning projects from start to finish, delivering them on time and on budget. You’ll effortlessly pass the baton to work collaboratively with others, using data intelligently to drive better business performance.
You’ll have a proven track record of using project management methodology and managing a projects portfolio and ideally, you’ll be certified Scrum Master/PRINCE2/PMP/ITIL qualified.
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU?
In return for your support, they’ll reward you with:
SALARY: Circa £57,000 per annum, depending on experience, paid monthly
BENEFITS: 26 days’ annual holiday, plus Bank Holidays, increasing one day a year for the first five years, Life Assurance, pension scheme, an employee health assistance programme, professional development opportunities, flexible working arrangements and more!
DATES FOR THE DIARY
CLOSING DATE: 05 November 2020. Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier depending on the number of successful candidates.
INTERVIEW DATE: TBC
THEIR COMMITMENT
They are an equal opportunities employer. They celebrate diversity and they are committed to creating inclusive environment for all current and future team members, working together to continue to help Transforming Lives.
This is a two-month temporary position where you will join a small team and need to immediately hit the ground running. You will have experience of development and design of D2L Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS) being able to review the colleges current site and work collaboratively with the team to design the LMS.
Essential Experience/Skills:
You will have experience working on a similar project.
Additionally, also knowledge of the authoring tool Articulate Storyline, supporting the migration and quality assurance of our 300+ learning modules from the college's content management system into their Storyline SCORM output.
Self-starter who is able to come in and get on with work with minimal supervision.
If you have the above skills and experience and are immediately available, please apply online today!
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Head of Product
£50,000 - 62,000pa
London, and currently remote
The Head of Product is responsible for technology product management processes and practice, and works closely with Comic Relief’s (CR’s) leaders to discover and develop all user facing digital / technology products and the related systems within CR.
Head of Product leads a team of product and delivery managers who service the user needs of three core audiences; external consumers, funded partners and internal teams.
The Head of Product will be the CTO’s deputy and will also have a big part to play in enabling the Digital Transformation of Comic Relief.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leadership of the Product team - create a strong team with the confidence to embrace change and foster a culture of partnership, consistent delivery and operational excellence.
- Delivery - hands on product and programme management of cross-technology products such as data infrastructure and payment services.
- Stakeholder management – build strong relationships with all stakeholders and work with them to define and manage the Technology roadmap and initiatives to support overall organisational aims.
- Be the subject matter expert - in product management expand the team’s understanding of best practice, techniques and methodologies, as well as continuous improvement, learning through experimentation and user-centred product design
- Digital Transformation – play a key role in re-imagining Comic Relief’s business processes, culture and user experiences to meet the challenges of the evolving digital landscape and the continued evolution of the charity sector.
- To lead, manage and support line report(s) through regular one-to-one meetings and clear performance objectives and objectives and key results (OKRs).
- Be an ambassador for collaborative cross-functional working both within Technology and across the wider organisation.
- Contribute to the wider charity community through sharing technology and collaboration on shared issues.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
- Experience of leading a digital product management team in a challenging business environment, ideally in the not for profit sector
- Good knowledge of the contemporary digital landscape and, ideally, not-for-profit sector digital landscape and strategies
- Strong technical understanding, ability to communicate effectively with engineers.
- Ability to identify opportunity spaces and develop prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate and progress new products.
- Able to apply systems thinking across organisational needs to simplify CR operations.
- Outstanding solid product management and delivery skills – the ability to engage, motivate and deliver organisational change to create a user-centric and evidence driven product management function.
- Curious and creative thinker – to create a learning organisation committed to continuous improvement and always striving to do things better.
To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.
Role closes - 12:00pm, 28th Oct 2020 GMT (Europe/London)
Inclusivity at Comic Relief
We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:
- Be valued for being yourself
- Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
- Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
- Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.
Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.