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Our aim at Companies House is to be the best registry in the world, achieved through brilliant people working on brilliant systems delivering brilliant services.
Our most significant legislative changes are encapsulated in The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. These changes aim to enhance the reliability and accuracy of the register, boost corporate transparency, and combat fraud and money laundering.
We are currently delivering an organisation wide transformation programme focussing on a complete re-design of our digital services, target operating model and culture. This change will need different skills, capabilities and mindset where adaptable, bold and curious behaviours are the norm and empowerment is encouraged and utilised.
Our Project Manager will be a crucial part of the Transformation Delivery Directorate, which spearheads our change journey. As outlined in our corporate strategy, Companies House plays a pivotal role in fostering confidence in the UK economy. Our programme of change over the coming years is central to enhancing that role.
We pride ourselves on being a dynamic, professional, and inclusive team with a positive attitude towards achieving our goals. As a Project Manager, you will report directly to one of our Senior Project Managers and play a vital role in the delivery of one or more projects within our portfolio.
You will collaborate with stakeholders across our organisation and strategic delivery partners, including those in Commercial, Digital, Data, Change, People, and Policy roles, to design and deliver project outputs. Most of these projects are part of our transformation programme, which aims to deliver transformed digital services alongside changes to our processes and capabilities across the entire organisation.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we’d love to receive your application!
Job description
As Project Manager, your key responsibilities will focus on the management of projects that cover either/or digital and non-digital change, and will include:
- Collaborating with the project Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) to co-ordinate the development of the project Business Case. You will manage and deliver objectives and outputs for project’s lifecycle in accordance with our project management practices.
- Identifying, defining, and monitoring project benefits, ensuring mechanisms for measuring progress and benefits realisation are established.
- Creating and managing the delivery plan, ensuring the achievement of project, programme and portfolio delivery milestones are achieved.
- Leading the project delivery team; holding them accountable for their delivery, removing impediments to progress, supporting them in production of project deliverables, operating effective change control processes, and planning the integration of the project outputs to business as usual.
- Ensuring the project’s compliance with Companies House’s governance requirements and arrangements, including interfacing with broader governance arrangements, such as government digital service or procurement standards.
- Effectively managing relationships with customers and stakeholders both throughout the business and in external organisations.
- Assuring your project board of your management of project budgets, issues, risks, resources, dependencies, delivery and quality and managing project controls around these.
- Arranging and facilitating project board and project team meetings, including the preparation of reporting decks.
- Contributing to broader portfolio reporting.
- Being an active member of our Project Delivery Profession - seeking appropriate support, guidance and coaching and contributing to the continuous improvement culture of the project delivery profession within Companies House; including the continuous development of your own skills.
Person specification
We are looking for a Project Manager who can demonstrate:
- Experience of working in a project environment, showcasing great project management skills
- A people-focused approach to project delivery
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, for effective team collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
- That they are resourceful, show initiative, with a willingness to explore and solve problems effectively
- A willingness to step out of their comfort zone, and learn new things quickly
- A commitment to ongoing professional development and staying abreast of industry trends and best practices.
Technical Skills
We’re looking for a Project Manager with experience of delivering projects through the whole lifecycle and who may hold or be willing to work towards achieving one of the following:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- Agile Project Management Foundation
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Agile Project Management Practitioner
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
- APM Project Management Qualification
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
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Selection process details
In your application form we’d like you to:
- Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
- Write a personal statement of 1250 words where you tell us about why you'd be great for the role, including how you meet the skills we're looking for in the person specification.
- We will asses you on the behaviours and technical skills listed in the advert.
We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as names and dates) from your employment history and personal statement.
What will the process look like?
- We will sift applications and then invite successful candidates from the sift stage to attend a virtual interview, using Microsoft Teams.
- There will be a pre-interview presentation.
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Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework and may include Strength based questions in the interview.
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
Where will you be working?
You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office (If currently employed by Companies House in a regional office your current alignment will continue), where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.
We're currently exploring options for new office space in the Cardiff and surrounding areas as we're due to be moving from our current building - join us on this journey where we can support you in your career and professional growth. Details are still being confirmed about our new building and we're keeping all our colleagues updated.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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
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