Job summary
The role requires an experienced & strong project manager with the ability to lead on critical Finance projects. The candidate should have experience in managing and successfully delivering high profile and high impact Finance projects within budget and to tight timescales.
This role will be within the DMO’s Project Management team. Based in our IT team, this permanent role is key to the successful delivery of the DMO's Workplan programme. The Project Manager will be required to ensure effective delivery of all project deliverables with the project whether business change or changes and upgrades to IT systems.
About the Team:
The Project Management team is responsible for delivering the Workplan Programme. This consists of a number of projects spread across IT and the Business areas to ensure that the DMO meets its objectives. There is a wide variety of projects from IT technical upgrades, to deploying new systems, enhanced business functionality and introducing efficiency changes. The team consists of 6 Project Managers, one Programme Manager and a Project Management Officer.
Job description
Essential Skills:
- Experience running projects for Financial Systems including Trading Systems and Payment Systems.
- Initiating a Project including preparing the Project Brief and Project Initiation Documents
- Managing key stakeholders including running Project Board meetings with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
- Managing the cost, time and quality aspects of the project
- Delivering change through projects successfully
- Managing change to projects through the Change Control process
- Prioritising work and making effective decisions
- Delivering multiple projects in tight timelines working with Development, Testing and Infrastructure
- Maintaining a risk and issue log for projects.
- Running Project Meetings with the Project Team
Desirable Skills:
- Experience using the Microsoft Toolset for Projects including DevOps
- Experience of running projects using the Microsoft Azure Platform, including the use of Power Apps Platform.
Person specification
For this vacancy, we will use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess you against the following Behaviours, Experience and Technical Skills:
- Experience: 1 (Lead Criteria) – Experience of working with Financial Services products (will be assessed by application question)
- Experience: 2 – Experience of resolving issues and recovering challenging projects
- Experience: 3 – Evidence of leading projects
- Technical: 1 – Evidence of a Project Management Qualification
- Behaviour: 1 – Communicating and Influencing - Evidence of good communication skills
Qualifications
Project Management qualificationBehaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Project Management qualification
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £62,000, UK Debt Management Office contributes £17,961 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Please see Candidate pack for further details
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.Please send a CV and supporting statement to Recruitment@dmo.gov.uk
Candidates – Please ensure your supporting statement and CV clearly demonstrate how you meet the Essential skills and criteria. Your CV and supporting statement and application question will be assessed. The application question will be used to assess the lead sift criteria
Please note a sift based on the lead criteria may be conducted if in the event of a large number of applications being received. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.
Application Questions Consider and answer the below question. Max 250 words
- Please could you give an example of a Financial Service project you project managed, the budget for the budget, the timeline at initiation and the total timeline it took and challenges you had to overcome delivering the project.
Supporting statement and CV
It is essential when submitting your personal statement that you provide as much detail as possible, and utilise the full word count given, explaining your motivation for the role and against the essential criteria outlined above as this will be used in conjunction with your CV to assess candidate suitability to move to the next stage of the recruitment process. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
Interview
Applicants for this post will be assessed against the elements of the Success Profiles recruitment framework listed above. The candidates will also undertake a numerical assessment on the day of the interview.
At interview you will be assessed on the following behaviours
- Changing & Improving
- Making effective decisions
- Communicating & Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
Timetable These dates are indicative and may be subject to change.
Applications close on Sunday 1 February 2026 at 23:55
Sifting. w/c 2 February 2026
Interviews w/c 16 February 2026
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).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).Apply and further information
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Job contact :
- Name : Kamara Ferdinand
- Email : Recruitment@dmo.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitment@dmo.gov.uk