Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location: Thames Valley Police HQ, Kidlington East, Kidlington, OX5 2LP
Contract: 12 month contract with likely extension
Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday) 9am-5pm
Pay Rate: £33.88 PAYE / £45.78 LTD per hour

About the Role:

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a complex ICT case management system within a policing environment. The role requires strong governance, stakeholder engagement, supplier management, and hands-on leadership to ensure successful delivery to time, cost, and quality.

This is not a passive coordination role. You will be expected to take ownership, manage risk proactively, and drive delivery across multiple stakeholders and locations.


Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of a major ICT project, from initiation through to implementation and handover
  
  
• Develop and manage detailed project plans using recognised methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2)
  
  
• Design and oversee testing strategies and implementation plans
  
  
• Manage budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits realisation
  
  
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across the Force and external partners
  
  
• Manage third-party vendors and suppliers, ensuring contractual and delivery obligations are met
  
  
• Provide clear leadership to project teams, setting direction and maintaining accountability
  
  
• Report progress, risks, and decisions clearly to governance boards and senior management
  
  
• Travel across Force locations as required to support delivery and stakeholder engagement
  
  

Essential skills and experience:

• Proven experience delivering complex ICT projects, ideally including case management systems
  
  
• Strong technical project management and delivery background
  
  
• Demonstrable use of PRINCE2 or equivalent structured delivery frameworks
  
  
• Extensive stakeholder management experience, including senior leadership engagement
  
  
• Strong risk, issue, and dependency management capability
  
  
• Experience managing project budgets and suppliers
  
  
• Confident people leader with the ability to motivate and direct teams
  
  
• Ability to work flexibly, including occasional unsocial hours
  
  

Apply Now Service Care Solutions is proud to assist in this recruitment campaign. If you meet the above criteria and would like to be considered, please apply now or reach out directly to discuss the role in more detail.
 
Harry Greenhalgh
Recruitment Lead – Defence
Service Care Solutions
harry.greenhalgh@servicecare.org.uk
01772 208962