Digital Project Manager - Early Years Digitisation
Project Management

Job Title: Digital Project Manager - Early Years Digitisation
Salary: from £40,760 - £44,632
Hours: Full Time (36.25 hours per week)
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months with option to extend                
Location: Churchgate House, Manchester Centre
Closing date: 26th April 2019 at 11:59pm
 
Role Profile.docx

Your role

 

You will be working as a Project Manager in the GMCA Digital Team, and specifically, working to digitise Early Years services as part of the project team implementing innovative digital solutions across those services in Greater Manchester. The project is key to realising Greater Manchester’s ambition of achieving the national level of school readiness for the children of Greater Manchester.

 

About you

 

You will be an experienced Project Manager with significant experience in implementing digital and transformational projects across the public sector. You will be experienced in working cross-organisationally and to many different stakeholder groups and have demonstrative experience in delivering projects of this nature successfully. You will be a flexible Project Manager and an excellent communicator. You must be able to persuasively and accurately communicate technical ideas and solutions to non-technical stakeholders. While the role is responsible for implementing digital solutions, the overall success of the projects will be measured by the impact on the lives of workers and citizens across Greater Manchester.

 

About us 


GMCA Digital is the digital arm of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and supports both internal initiatives and pan-Greater Manchester programmes such as this. GMCA Digital supports Greater Manchester’s wider vision to be a leading example of efficient and integrated public services with the aim of enabling appropriate, impactful and proportionate use of information across all public bodies in Great Manchester for the benefit of the people of Greater Manchester. GMCA Digital promotes innovation in technology and data use to join up public services around the needs of individuals and communities. Doing this will enable improved and more efficient services, improved outcomes for Greater Manchester and residents, and contribute to the achievement of public service savings. 

The Early Year’s digitisation programme aims to improve the school readiness of children in Greater Manchester by enabling front line staff to be more effective, to support better service commissioning and to help ensure children receive the support they require. 

If you want to be part of a forward thinking, innovative organisation that can impact real change across the region then this is the role for you.

 

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); waste; environment; work and skills; research; public sector reform; police, crime and criminal justice; homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
 
The GMCA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation


To find out more about working for us please click here https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ 

Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance. If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.

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Job Title: Digital Project Manager - Early Years Digitisation
Salary: from £40,760 - £44,632
Hours: Full Time (36.25 hours per week)
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months with option to extend                
Location: Churchgate House, Manchester Centre
Closing date: 26th April 2019 at 11:59pm
 
Role Profile.docx

Your role

 

You will be working as a Project Manager in the GMCA Digital Team, and specifically, working to digitise Early Years services as part of the project team implementing innovative digital solutions across those services in Greater Manchester. The project is key to realising Greater Manchester’s ambition of achieving the national level of school readiness for the children of Greater Manchester.

 

About you

 

You will be an experienced Project Manager with significant experience in implementing digital and transformational projects across the public sector. You will be experienced in working cross-organisationally and to many different stakeholder groups and have demonstrative experience in delivering projects of this nature successfully. You will be a flexible Project Manager and an excellent communicator. You must be able to persuasively and accurately communicate technical ideas and solutions to non-technical stakeholders. While the role is responsible for implementing digital solutions, the overall success of the projects will be measured by the impact on the lives of workers and citizens across Greater Manchester.

 

About us 


GMCA Digital is the digital arm of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and supports both internal initiatives and pan-Greater Manchester programmes such as this. GMCA Digital supports Greater Manchester’s wider vision to be a leading example of efficient and integrated public services with the aim of enabling appropriate, impactful and proportionate use of information across all public bodies in Great Manchester for the benefit of the people of Greater Manchester. GMCA Digital promotes innovation in technology and data use to join up public services around the needs of individuals and communities. Doing this will enable improved and more efficient services, improved outcomes for Greater Manchester and residents, and contribute to the achievement of public service savings. 

The Early Year’s digitisation programme aims to improve the school readiness of children in Greater Manchester by enabling front line staff to be more effective, to support better service commissioning and to help ensure children receive the support they require. 

If you want to be part of a forward thinking, innovative organisation that can impact real change across the region then this is the role for you.

 

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); waste; environment; work and skills; research; public sector reform; police, crime and criminal justice; homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
 
The GMCA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation


To find out more about working for us please click here https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ 

Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance. If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.

Recruitment Policy