Project Manager

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Key Information

Job title: Project Manager 

Salary: Up to £65k depending on experience                                                     Grade: Band 3 

Contract type: 12-18 month fixed-term contract                                                Reference: 5288  

Team: Customer                                                                                                  Directorate: TfL Corporate

Contract details: TfL                                                                                           

Location: Hybrid / Southwark (min 2 days per week/as required) / working from home / site visits / stakeholder offices 

Application closing date: Tuesday 11th August 

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. 

Pre-qualifying questions: 

To apply for this role, you must meet all of the following qualifying criteria: 

• Have you worked at Transport for London (TfL) on a customer-facing initiative in the last 5 years? Y/N 

• Have you managed projects with budgets of £5m+? Y/N 

• Have you worked with non-operational subject matter experts outside an official project management framework? Y/N   

Applications which do not meet all of the above criteria will be rejected. 

Application instructions:

• Confirm you meet the pre-requisites;
• Submit a maximum 2-page CV; and
• As an alternative to a covering letter, submit a maximum 500-word response to the following question, attaching it in the cover letter section: On the TfL customer-facing initiative you worked on within the last 5 years, please outline your personal approach to working with multiple subject matter experts to document, track and monitor activities within their workstream, and how you brought that together at project level to ensure the totality of work was on track  

Applications which do not comply with the above requirements will be rejected.  

Overview  

TfL’s Customer Directorate is looking for a highly experienced Project Manager, with experience of delivering and managing complex, large-scale projects. A collaborative team player with a proactive attitude and strong work ethic, able to support multiple workstream leads within a matrix team, helping them to deliver results through effective problem solving and proactive project management. 

The Project Manager will be an active and integral member of the matrix project delivery team, taking on all the project management legwork to enable workstream leads to focus solely on delivery. 

Overview of role

A Project Manager is required to provide successful management of a time-sensitive and high-profile rail project to time, budget and quality standards. Please note, this project sits within a wider Programme. 

You will ensure delivery of this project through successful management both internal resource and delivery partners, plus third-party suppliers. 

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the delivery of a large-scale project with multiple workstreams and significant complexity, involving sophisticated stakeholder management of internal networks and external partners