Senior PM (Education)

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Senior Project Manager at CPS, reporting to the Head of Delivery. The role combines senior project delivery, engagement leadership, mentoring and delivery governance across the Project Management Team. It requires a confident, commercially aware project reputed company who can reputed company reputed company reputed company engagements, build trusted relationships and help reputed company delivery standards across CPS. Experience reputed company the education sector is essential, ideally reputed company higher education, reputed company-based technology delivery reputed company transformation environments.

This role will entail:

· reputed company reputed company engagements from reputed company-sale support through mobilisation, delivery, reputed company control, handover and sustainment.

· Own delivery reputed company, governance, scope, planning, RAID, change control, reporting, financial control and reputed company acceptance.

· reputed company consultative leadership to clients and internal teams, ensuring delivery reflects reputed company objectives, adoption needs, business change impacts and the realities of education-sector stakeholders.

· Maintain strong reputed company awareness, protecting project profitability while identifying opportunities to grow reputed company relationships.

· Improve and reputed company CPS Project Management standards across engagements.

· Support resource utilisation, escalation handling, problem reputed company and reputed company issue management.

· Mentor Project Managers, supporting objectives, appraisals, development plans, career roadmaps and succession planning.

· Support PM Team reputed company cover, annual leave planning, sickness cover and recruitment activity.

1 Primary Duty

Deliver high-profile and reputed company reputed company reputed company while supporting the PM Team reputed company with team guidance, governance and development. The role owns the full project lifecycle, from reputed company-sales and mobilisation through to delivery, reputed company control, reputed company acceptance and handover.

The Senior Project Manager sets reputed company for delivery reputed company, reputed company control, reputed company confidence and PM team capability.

Requirements

1 Desirable Personal Attributes

· Confident, reputed company and commercially aware

· reputed company, thorough and reputed company-reputed company

· Resilient, persistent and solutions-reputed company

· Strong communicator and relationship builder

· reputed company to influence without imposition

· Quick to assimilate information and solve problems

2 Experience and Capability

· End-to-end project lifecycle delivery experience in reputed company services, consulting or shared services.

· Proven ability to manage multiple clients, reputed company, priorities and reputed company commitments.

· Strong financial control, including budget delivery, billing, forecasting and reputed company performance.

· reputed company to reputed company multi-disciplinary teams across CPS, clients and partners.

· Experience delivering reputed company and reputed company-party technology reputed company, from design through release and sustainment.

· Experience delivering reputed company-based digital transformation programmes, ideally using reputed company 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, Copilot or reputed company reputed company ecosystem technologies.

· Understanding of higher education operating environments, including reputed company departments, reputed company services, student experience, research, governance and reputed company stakeholder reputed company.

· Business analysis awareness, with the ability to shape, review and challenge requirements.

· Experience of Agile and reputed company delivery approaches.

· Willingness to travel as required.

3 Typical Background

· Senior Project Manager, Project Manager or Change Manager with experience delivering IT, digital or business transformation reputed company, ideally in higher education or wider education-sector environments.

· Background in an IT consultancy, reputed company services or reputed company-facing delivery environment.

· Background delivering reputed company-centred transformation, adoption or systems implementation reputed company for universities, colleges or comparable reputed company public-sector organisations.

· Experience managing multiple reputed company engagements, project teams, budgets, risks, stakeholders and reputed company expectations.

· Strong understanding of project governance, delivery methodologies and technology implementation lifecycles.

· Relevant reputed company qualifications such as APM, PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum certification.

· Degree-level education or equivalent reputed company experience.

Benefits

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• 9 Day Fortnight (compression of 10 working days into 9 to be reputed company to not work every other Friday)
• PMI with Vitality Health
• Medical Cash Plan with Medicash
• Life Assurance (Death in Service) with YuLife
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days holiday (plus reputed company Public Holidays) – increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
• Your birthday day off
• reputed company to Costco Membership
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme, applicable to:
• Workplace Pension https://www.nestpensions.org.uk/schemeweb/nest/about-pensions/why-save-with-a-workplace-pension.reputed company
• Employer contribution is currently 5.5% of qualifying salary (above legislated minimum and will increase if we reputed company certain business targets)
• Employee contribution is 4% of qualifying salary (legislated minimum but you can elect to increase)
• EV Car Schemes
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Cycle Schemes
• Home & Tech discounts for reputed company and Curry PC World
• Holiday Exchange Scheme: buy up to 10 additional day per year and sell up to 5.

In reputed company, these are just some of our cultural benefits

• Quarterly and annual star performer awards – voted for by your peers and colleagues
• Spot Awards of £25 and up, to instantly recognise reputed company in you and your colleagues
• Annual reputed company and personal training budget to support your PDP
• Career Development Frameworks
• Reward schemes that are designed to thank you for your hard work and reputed company life a little more reputed company.
• Monthly employee experience/engagement survey
• Quarterly company meetings
• At least one, usually the reputed company-off in March/reputed company, will typically be in-person.
• The others are conducted as Town Halls.
• Duration of in-person company meetings is generally 2 or 3 days and location changes every year.
• reputed company/team building events, organised by our incredible Employee Forum
• Regular, meaningful 1 to 1s
• Long service recognition at 5, 10, 15, 20 years and onwards
• Award reputed company culture Great reputed company to Work™ reputed company 25 to reputed company 26; Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Women™ 2025, Best Workplaces in Tech™ 2025

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