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Project Lead

Employer
Harris Hill
Location
Bracknell
Salary
£32,730 per year
Closing date
4 Sep 2019

Job Details

Title: Project Lead
Location: Bracknell - flexible base with travel across Thames Valley
Hours: 37
Salary: £32,730

Job Purpose
-To ensure the successful delivery of a portfolio of projects within the defined requirements of each contract.
-Manage the resources available to them to deliver the portfolio of projects effectively and efficiently.
-Engagement and management of key stakeholders to achieve project outcomes.
-To maximise the income available from payment by results projects.
-To ensure all quality standards and compliance requirements are met, ensuring there is no risk of financial clawback.

Key Responsibilities
-Performance management of the projects and individual staff members.
-To lead the delivery teams in successfully achieving the project outcomes.
-Lead, coach and support a team of staff, in their personal development that improve them as individuals and the quality of the service as a whole.
-Undertake monthly supervision sessions with staff and observations of professional practice to motivate, monitor performance and encourage them to improve the quality of delivery to young people and stakeholders.
-To work with key stakeholders to coordinate the projects delivery, avoiding duplication and maximising the opportunities for young people
-To support the recruitment of staff required to deliver the project as appropriate
-To manage the budget and ensure financial monitoring systems are in place and reviewed in conjunction with the programme sponsor and Adviza Directorate
-To report progress to commissioners using the agreed procedures
-To provide information to commissioners and other key stakeholders as required and agreed
Work with the compliance team to ensure all participant and financial claims are accurate and managed effectively in a timely manner
-To develop and maintain good relations with other partners supporting the same client group. This could include voluntary agencies, community groups and other statutory services
-To collaborate with existing Adviza teams to maximise benefits for the programme participants.

Key Skills/Requirements:
-Educated to degree level or equivalent.
-Proven experience of delivering services to vulnerable people from a variety of backgrounds.
-Management and supervisory experience.
-Experience of managing a front line delivery service
-Proven track record of performance monitoring and dealing with underperformance of partners and sub-contractors.
-Proven track record of monitoring individuals and project performance against agreed objectives and targets.
-Proven track record of reporting activities to a variety of stakeholders using formal systems and processes.
-Ability to influence and negotiate at a senior level to ensure successful project delivery is on budget and within agree timescales.

Company

Harris Hill has been providing the Charity and Not-for-Profit sector with high quality recruitment solutions for over 27 years. In the past year we have worked on more than 3,000 charity vacancies (approximately 2,000 permanent and 1,000 temporary) and are continuing to grow, developing new teams to respond to the strong demand for specialist charity professionals.

Our teams focus on specific functions within charities including Fundraising, Marketing/PR/Digital, Data Management & Business Support, Finance, Human Resources, Temporary and Executive-level roles.

We are committed to delivering a level of excellence to both candidates and clients alike and have an unrivalled reputation for finding talented people their ideal charity jobs within the UK's leading national and international charities and non-profit organisations.

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Company info
Telephone
020 7820 7300
Location
1 - 2 Paris Garden
London
London
SE1 8ND
United Kingdom

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