Project Manager


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Reference number

296544

Salary

£41,782 – £44,932
Candidates will start on the minimum salary for the grade.
A
Civil Service Pension
with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HMRC – CDIO – CIO – Corporates, Customer Strategy & Tax Design – Policy Driven Change & Pensions

Type of role

Digital
Information Technology
Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Telford, Worthing

Job summary

Role

Our roles sit within HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO) in the Policy Driven Change (PDC) team.

CDIO is HMRC’s IT function. With 4,000 people, CDIO Group are a key part of HMRC. As one of the most digital organisations in the UK we are leading the biggest digital transformation in Europe. To support this, we are also transforming how we are structured to become increasingly customer centric.

See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Job description

As a Project Manager in HMRC CDIO, you will lead on project management for multi-component / system IT projects, collaborating with other teams in CDIO and across HMRC and wider Government, to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and to sufficient quality. 

There is likely to be some travel expected in this role with some overnight stays. 

Responsibilities

Key accountabilities:

  • Building and maintaining motivated teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards.
  • Ensuring team collaboration, communication focuses on what is most important.
  • Coaching team members and others.
  • Applying of the correct appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment.
  • Proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies, overcome obstacles and get the best value against constraints.
  • Managing project team members.
  • Tracking / monitoring spend against agreed budgets to ensure projects are delivered in line with the business case. 

The Team

This is an exciting time to join Policy Delivery and make a lasting impact on how we support and develop the UK economy. We offer clearly defined career pathways, a healthy work/life balance and a chance to work with cutting edge technology. Our Team is responsible for one of HMRC’s larger change programmes, with a rolling portfolio of circa 60 individual projects delivering policy changes across HMRC whether:

  • Announced by Treasury Ministers as part of the fiscal event process.
  • Arising from other government departments (OGDs), Devolved Administrations.
  • Small CS&TD BAU IT change.

The vital work we do enables significant benefits for all citizens of the United Kingdom, in particular Exchequer yield and the achievement of cross-Government objectives such as business recovery post Covid19, environmental aims and anti-money laundering.

Successful delivery of PDC& P projects will enable exchequer benefit across the Government scorecard period exceeding net £70 billion.

Person specification

 Essential Criteria

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following:

  • Experience delivering medium to large scale technical or IT enabled business change projects against a backdrop of large scale organisational change.
  • The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders, facilitating collaboration in order to achieve successful outcomes for the business.
  • Project Governance including creating and managing a project plan and tracking risk/issues/dependencies.
  • Commercial awareness including: Managing and monitoring of project costs and budgets; Ability to effectively challenge external suppliers to ensure best service and value for money.
  • Understanding and practical experience of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. 

Desirable Criteria

  • Evidence of playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and demonstrating an understanding of strategic consequences of IT decisions.
  • A recognised or a willingness to work towards a Project Management qualification such as Prince 2 Practitioner, Agile Practitioner or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Alongside IPA Project Delivery Profession Accreditation. 
Alongside your salary of £41,782, HM Revenue and Customs contributes
£11,281 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 average employer contribution of 27%

Find more about HMRC benefits in ‘Your little extras and big benefits handbook’ for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.

Selection process details

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV detailing your employment history, and a 750-word personal statement. Your personal statement and CV should explain what you will bring to the role while being aligned to the essential criteria.

Candidates who are successful at sift will be invited to a video interview, where they will be assessed on their knowledge and experience against the essential criteria specified in the advert, while questions will be asked to further explore information provided in the application.

We reserve the right to raise the score required at any stage of the process in order to manage numbers.

Interview dates to be confirmed.

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

After interview, a single merit list will be created and appointments will be made in strict merit order until the set demand is filled in each location.

If successful, you will be informed which locations are available when we reach your position on the merit list.

Eligibility

To check that you are eligible to apply, review this eligibility information

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:

This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need, so please review the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you are able to travel to.    

Reasonable Adjustments 

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition, or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate. 

If you need a reasonable adjustment or a change to be made so that you can make your application, review this information on reasonable adjustments, and contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues and creating an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We’re committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues here at HMRC. We want everyone to feel valued and supported to achieve their potential at HMRC.

For more information on how we make this happen, review this information on our culture and values

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible after considering operational and customer service needs. We can’t guarantee that we can meet all requests to work flexibly, as agreement will be subject to business ability to accommodate, and any request to work a more flexible arrangement should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process. 

The Civil Service runs a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. 

Locations 

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

Security Update

For more information on the level of security checks we will carry out, review this information on security checks

Further Information

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application/s will be withdrawn from the process. 

Duplicate applications for the same vacancy will also be withdrawn.

Transferring into HMRC from Civil Service If you are currently working for an ‘Other Government Department’ (OGD) and would like to consider the impact on your pay when joining HMRC, please see the attached document “Combined T&C and OGD Pay English”, found at the bottom of this advert. Further information on staff transfers can be found on gov.uk

Problems during the application process 

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section. 

If you think you’ve made a mistake on a short application form (e.g. you’ve ticked the incorrect eligibility box), please contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk at least two working days before the vacancy closes. After this, we won’t be able to reopen your application.   

Please use the subject line to insert appropriate wording e.g. Please re-open my application – 296544 & vacancy closing date 27/07/23. Please note that we cannot amend or re-open your application if you have submitted your full application in the interests of fair and open recruitment.

For reasonable adjustments queries or requests, please see details within reasonable adjustments section above.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Tina Reeve
  • Email : tina.reeve@hmrc.gov.uk
  • Telephone : 07876740690

Recruitment team

  • Email : hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel a department has breached the Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly with the department concerned via complaints.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here

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