Technology Project Manager

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Are you interested in advancing your career and broadening your project management skills? Look no further!

We're excited to offer the opportunity for a Technology Project Manager who'll collaborate with stakeholders from across the business and be responsible for delivering a broad variety of projects, end to end, including planning, organising, staffing, leading, and controlling activities.

In this role you 'll manage several projects concurrently, as well as work collaboratively across Technology and the wider organisation, delivering both Technology-led and business-led projects.

Working arrangements

This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, covering family leave.

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.

At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

About you

You'll have a proven track record in hands-on portfolio, programme and project management along with a strategic mind-set. You'll also hold a Project Management qualification in PRINCE2, Agile or both.

With a proven track record and credentials of successful end-to-end delivery of Technology projects, you'll have experience of budget management for projects, as well as previous experience of managing projects that involve a high degree of stakeholder engagement and change.

You'll have experience of writing standard project lifecycle documentation and in working with PPM tools, as well as experience of managing projects involving cloud-based solutions and technologies e.g. SaaS/PaaS/IaaS.

To excel in this role, you should possess the following skills and experience:
• An assured, authoritative and confident personality
• A Change advocate and able to hold challenging conversations at all levels within an organization and with vendors, leading on these conversations where necessary
• Adept at stakeholder management
• Able to use your influencing skills to drive change and take the initiative, as a decisive and critical thinker
• Able to take an innovative approach, challenging and changing the status quo
• Able to form good working relationships with non-Technology staff and build credibility
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, able to build trust and communicate effectively to people of all different technical abilities

About us

We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change , along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interview process

First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview, successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams.

How to apply

It's quick and easy to apply for a role at BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you'll need is an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role's criteria.

As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.