Project manager - Organisational Development and Change

Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you want to take your career to the next level? Are you looking for an opportunity to embrace your motivation and innovation for driving improvements in policing? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you...

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC)

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) brings UK police leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public. It enables Chief Constables and their forces to work collectively and collaboratively to help policing coordinate operations, reform, improve, and provide value for money.

Policing is operating in a time of global change and uncertainty, the public and our staff need a service which is responsive, able to tackle future challenges and embrace opportunity. The NPCC aims to support our operationally independent Chief Officers in their ambition to meet this need. We have been able to do this by adhering to the NPCC principles of coordination, collaboration and communication, through the strength of our policing network and effective partnership working.

NPCC Strategic Hub Organisational Development and Change team

The Organisational Development and Change (ODC) team has responsibility for driving continuous improvement across the NPCC, delivering projects of work, and giving advice and guidance to ensure development activity is in line with NPCC and wider policing strategies. The team works with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the NPCC is able to support chief officers in the constantly evolving areas of national policing.

The role

We are seeking to recruit an experienced project manager, who will have responsibility for leading on multiple projects across the NPCC landscape. Working at the centre of policing, on the biggest issues for the service, this is an exciting and challenging role where you can make a real difference. You will be required to manage your own portfolio of work, and lead projects utilising your own initiative. You will be highly solutions focused and a skilled problem solver who utilises your excellent project management skills to deliver projects from inception to delivery, with the support of the ODC team. You will regularly manage complex, high profile, politically sensitive work where decisions and delivery have national implications with the potential to impact on the reputation of the whole police service. You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationships with police chiefs, senior stakeholders and other NPCC staff.

Experience and skills

The successful candidate would be part of an innovative team and would need to have the following experience and skills:

• ability to manage a project through its life cycle of planning, governance, reporting, benefits, resourcing, and finance
• project design including the development of relevant initiation documentation (PID, business case, or similar)
• project planning skills including the mapping of milestones deliverables and ongoing progress, using relevant project management products
• an understanding of benefits and experience of working with business area leads and subject matter experts to develop specific and measurable benefits
• stakeholder mapping and management
• development and articulation of risk and issues and working with respective subject matter experts to identify mitigation for those risks
• project reporting in line with specific project requirements and cycles, ODC governance and assurance processes (for example, RAG, financial data, and workforce data), benefit management and the implementation of priorities
• ability to identify interdependencies and dependencies with other projects and workstreams within NPCC and wider landscape and report them as appropriate
• demonstrable experience of delivering change projects within a complex environment
• demonstrable ability to apply project management principles and pragmatically within the organisational environment
• proven ability to work on own initiative, leading projects through their lifecycle, from inception to completion
• ability to design, manage and facilitate workshops, to deliver clear outcomes
• written communication: proven ability to analyse and collate information to produce effective, clear, concise products and reports
• excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels establishing credibility and influencing stakeholders
• engaging and maintaining relationships with stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery and represent the NPCC and Strategic Hub
• ability to act as a point of contact for advice and guidance on NPCC organisational development and change
• ability to undertake other activities and changing demands of the ODC team commensurate with the post as may be required for the effective delivery of NPCC change projects
• ability to be flexible in terms of working location and be prepared to work temporarily at other locations and be prepared to travel when required
• experience and understanding of working in a confidential or politically sensitive environment

What the role offers (to name a few)

• good insight into the strategic priorities of the NPCC and UK policing
• opportunity for development and to broaden your experience at a senior, national level
• opportunities to undertake engagement with a range of stakeholders across policing and government
• flexible and remote working

This is an exciting opportunity within NPCC, within a fast-paced environment and an ever-growing organisation.

Should you want to know more about the role, we would strongly encourage you email Claire Murray, Senior Manager, Organisational Change and Development.