Digital Project Manager

Job summary

The Digital Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of digital, data and technology related projects across the ICO. Reporting to the Digital Programme Manager, the Digital Project Manager ensures that projects are delivered effectively, consistently, and with measurable impact.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights. In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.

Job description

This role requires proactivity and versatility to manage delivery across the organisation, support the embedding of change and contribute to the continuous improvement of delivery practice. The Digital Project Manager will work with and empower project teams, scrum teams, manage interdependencies and risks, and ensure that delivery is aligned with organisational priorities and to governance standards.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of DDaT projects in alignment with organisational priorities whilst ensuring projects teams are empowered to deliver effectively.

• Use skills and experience to lead and direct end-to-end project delivery, working closely with roles within the digital delivery team such as Scrum Masters, User Centre Design specialists, Technical Business Analysts, Test Engineers, Product Owners and Architecture.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive approach to project delivery by use of the Agile methods in a JIRA environment.

• Identify and proactively manage cross-organisational resource required to successfully delivery projects.

• Lead on the engagement with and coordination of actions across stakeholder groups within wider business.

• Ensure effective assurance reporting and visibility of deliverables, risks, and issues by monitoring and controlling project progress using appropriate tools, and by preparing and delivering reports and papers for project and programme boards.

• Where appropriate, provide leadership, coaching, challenge and guidance to ensure objectives are met and delivery is consistent across the organisation.

• Ensure outputs are effectively implemented and embedded within the business.

• Provide business process change support, coordinate communications and training activities, and work in partnership with stakeholders and benefit owners to maximise adoption and realise benefits.

• Facilitate lessons learned exercises, embedding findings into delivery practice to support a continuous learning culture and improve project management standards.

• Organise and support project events, including workshops, stakeholder briefings, and assurance activities.

Person specification

Essential criteria assessed at application stage:

• Experience of managing and delivering projects in public or private sector environments.

• Evidence of successful implementation of projects that deliver strategic value across varied domains including but not limited to digital, data, regulatory, and transformational workstreams

• Very strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate and to build and maintain good working relationships both internally and externally, up to and including senior management level.

• Excellent understanding and application of Agile delivery methodologies including Scrum.

• Good working knowledge of JIRA.

• Ability to deliver projects under strategic oversight, working in partnership with the Digital Programme Manager to ensure alignment with organisational priorities.

• Demonstrated leadership in managing project teams, with experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing capability across a matrix environment.

• Understanding of portfolio, programme and project governance and assurance, with the ability to contribute to reporting and decision-making processes.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to represent project interests across governance forums and enable effective decision-making.

• Excellent judgement and the ability to deal with a changing environment both on a day-to-day and long-term basis.

• Commitment to continuous improvement, with experience in leading lessons learned exercises and embedding findings into delivery practice.

Essential criteria assessed during interview:

• Experience of managing and delivering projects in public or private sector environments.

• Evidence of successful implementation of projects that deliver strategic value across varied domains including but not limited to digital, data, regulatory, and transformational workstreams

• Very strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate and to build and maintain good working relationships both internally and externally, up to and including senior management level.

• Good working knowledge of JIRA and the application of Agile Scrum.

• Ability to deliver projects under strategic oversight, working in partnership with the Digital Programme Manager to ensure alignment with organisational priorities.

• Understanding of portfolio, programme and project governance and assurance, with the ability to contribute to reporting and decision-making processes.

• Excellent judgement and the ability to deal with a changing environment both on a day-to-day and long-term basis.

• Commitment to continuous improvement, with experience in leading lessons learned exercises and embedding findings into delivery practice.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,297, Information Commissioner's Office contributes £12,832 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).Please visit ico.jobs for full details, including salary and benefits.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

The ICO is committed to promoting and enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are focused on developing a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and together we are building an inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. We are championing this through our Equality Diversity and Inclusion Board together with a number of staff networks. Read more about our commitment on our website.

Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy will be invited to interview as part of the ICO’s commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme.

As part of the ICO’s commitment to our EDI objectives and creating a workplace that represents the communities and societies we serve, we guarantee an interview to candidates who declare they identify as belonging from an ethnic minority background and who meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy

If you are disabled or have an impairment and require an alternative application method, please email the HR team at recruitment@ico.org.uk

Closing Date

Please submit your CV and cover letter by 23:59, Thursday 17 September. Your cover letter should be no more than 1,000 words and should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure your application is considered, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application, please contact us at recruitment@ico.org.uk.

In the event of a high volume of applications, we may not be able to invite all candidates who meet the minimum criteria to interview. However, we encourage you stay in touch and apply for future roles that match your interests.

All candidates who meet the minimum criteria and apply in-line with our guaranteed interview scheme for disabled and ethnic minority applicants will be interviewed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : recruitment@ico.org.uk
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