Senior Project Manager - Ministry of Justice

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Senior Project Manager - Ministry of Justice

Sector: Project and Program Management
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

The project:

This is an opportunity to join a growing multidisciplinary framework team working with the Ministry of Justice. The focus of our work is on the delivery of capital refurbishments and upgrades across the MoJ's estate including prisons, courts, and probation.

Due to our continued growth with the Ministry of Justice, we require a project manager. This role will be expected to provide project management across all stages to deliver the project against cost, time, and quality requirements. This role sits in our consultancy business, specifically the justice and blue light sector.

This position will suit those looking to further their careers with a major project or programme role. In addition to achieving the client's own transformational estate objectives, the project's priorities include health safety and wellbeing, BIM and digital construction, sustainability, government soft landings, social value creation, people and skill development, and collaboration. This programme is being used as a catalyst for some industry-wide innovations and would suit candidates interested in supporting and championing these causes.

This is a client-facing role, responsible for working together with team members, developing the clients' strategy, through to assisting in the appointment of the extended professional team of local consultants and contractors.

Our values shape the way we consult:

Safety first - Going home safe and well:

• Promote Mace's value of safety first, exhibiting visible safety behaviours, sharing lessons learned, and supporting the safety and wellbeing of all Mace staff.
• Possess technical expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
• Promote a diverse and inclusive working environment and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the people in your team.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise:

• Ensure robust quality systems are in place, and suitably managed in line with service excellence.
• Manage delivery from project inception/brief, through design development and planning, contractor procurement, and construction phase in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed project milestones.
• Manage tasks and associated deliverables in support of the associate director and other senior leaders, alongside the wider project and client teams, to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of the project.
• Develop and manage effective communication and liaison with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure that requirements are identified, assessed, and appropriately integrated into the project.
• Work with the client and report to the project lead responsible for helping to establish the strategy and delivery for the project.
• Supervise in developing the client's brief, delivery strategy, and supervising the scheme's design management, procurement, and execution.
• Work with a dynamic team that strives for quality, safety, cost, and schedule improvements at every opportunity with all delivery partners.
• Coordinate, plan, and manage internal and external meetings about the project.
• Drive the procurement of services and works required to deliver the project.
• Understand budgets, estimates, and ability to review and challenge contractors' proposals.
• Provide input into client system safety and project risk assessment and management process.
• Understand the design process throughout all stages of the project life cycle and manage technical aspects as they arise.
• Manage pre-contract design development and post-contract scope changes efficiently.
• Produce strategic project programmes and have the ability to scrutinise and integrate programmes from consultants and contractors.
• Understand risk management and work with project teams to identify, schedule, and establish mitigation strategies for project risks.

Integrity - Always do the right thing:

• Manage project budgets and highlight any risks, challenges, and mitigations.
• Support the long-term development of your function or business unit (BU), creating a sustainable business future.
• Commit to making a positive impact for our people, our clients, and our planet.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel:

• Manage design and wider consultant teams in a collaborative manner to ensure effective completion of responsibilities.
• Lead and manage the project team and relevant stakeholders to achieve strategic project key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Actively network, innovate, and seek understanding of best practice, utilising the full depth of knowledge of Mace group.

You'll need to have:

• Degree qualification in a relevant discipline and a member of a professional body institute such as RICS, CIOB, or APM.
• Experience in contract administration and using various forms of contract, particularly NEC.
• Digitally savvy and able to build lasting client relationships.
• Experience in delivering projects in a consultancy environment.
• Experience of working with the Ministry of Justice and/or the wider public sector would be preferable.

Please note that candidates who feel they fall short of the required level of experience are actively encouraged to apply as they will be considered for more junior positions and opportunities within these ever-expanding teams.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Company

At Mace we empower our people to be collaborative, curious and embrace their entrepreneurial spirits. We aim to attract the best and brightest people, whatever their background, to bring new perspectives to some of the most challenging and inspiring projects around the world.

Reward and recognition

We invest in our people and provide a strong benefits package, which in the UK includes:

• 22 days of holiday, plus two 'Mace Days' to support work-life balance, bank holidays and December holiday shut down
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Highly competitive maternity and paternity package
• Reimbursement of professional subscriptions and membership fees
• Season ticket loan
• Annual health screening
• Private medical insurance
• Sponsorship of education schemes (on approval)
• Continuous on the job training and development
• Cycle to work scheme

We know that many parents can face challenges when balancing the demands of work and their home lives. At Mace, we fully support our people when they choose to balance their career with family life.

Our performance management and appraisal approach is based on ability and talent. Top performers are recognised for both their contribution to projects and their broader contribution to the business.

At Mace we appreciate the differences that everyone brings to work and we recognise the importance of people being free to be themselves.

Regardless of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or affiliation to any political party, we embrace diversity and believe in creating an inclusive environment where every Mace person is treated equally, fairly and with respect.

Support for disabled employees is provided by:

Our recruitment and HR Teams have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues.