Project Contract Manager

This role is in the DST Commissioning team.

A Project Contract Manager, covering project and contract management for effective delivery of projects with contract administration and contract management assignments.

The role provides working level support to Senior Responsible Officers, Programme Managers and the Senior Commercial Manager.

The role includes leading the delivery of projects, identifying and monitoring project risks and issues, developing mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate, ensuring contracts are delivered on time and within budget, review of deliverables from a project perspective, managing requests for changes to cost or schedule, dispute resolution, post costing and close out. Providing key reports and supporting effective governance and decision making.

The Project Contract Manager will be responsible for their own outputs, with the opportunity to attend relevant training and on-the-job learning.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

• Ensuring delivery of contracts and projects to time cost and quality
• Holding suppliers to account to ensure they meet their obligations under the contract
• Evaluation of reports and deliverables to ensure project and commercial compliance with the contract
• Conducts or supports a range of dialogues and simple negotiations with suppliers
• Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
• Generation and manipulation of MI and presentation skills
• Comfortable with the use of ERP systems to generate requisitions
• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place.
• Innovative, thinking of new ways of working and improve contract delivery or outputs.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills
• Confident managing competing priorities

This role is suitable for an individual who has worked in a project or programme management office with experience of planning, governance, contract management and risk or has experience of managing a project, programme, contract or strand of activity.

This role would also be suitable for an individual with appropriate skills gained in a non-project environment, for example in areas such as planning, resourcing, risk and governance or analytical skills in another profession or area of work.

The idea candidate will:

• Hold Contract Management Capability Programme (CMCP) Foundation or completed within the first 3 months
• Have awareness of Project Delivery best practice processes
• Expert in the use of MS Office 365, Excel and SharePoint

The ideal candidate is likely to:

• Have the ability to demonstrate Commercial Functional competence and skills at Practicing level, for post-award contract management

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Managing a Quality Service

• 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%
• Flexible working patterns including part time working and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total agreed hours, and blended home and office-based working;

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

Job contact :

• Name : Angela Howells
• Email : angela.howells102@od.gov.uk
• Telephone : 03001594587

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk