Deputy Director - SC

Job Title: Deputy Director - SC

Location: Locations considered are: London, Croydon, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester. (If not London-based weekly visits to the London) - 2-3 days/week on site

Contract Duration: 24 Months

Daily Rate: £(Apply online only)/day (Umbrella Maximum)

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC (Willing to undergo DV)

The Deputy Director Legal Practice Management (LPM) programme is a pivotal role in the organisation and as a programme director for this large-scale transformation programme, they will need to be a visible leader, inspiring confidence and driving the modernisation of the legal practices. Excellent Stakeholder Engagement will be essential, and its is expected that this role will provide progress briefings and assurance of delivery to the Permanent Secretary, Directors General, Executive Committee (EXCO), Board and Audit and Risk Committee (ARAC), other governance forums as required and to all staff. An authoritative change professional, whose past experience has proven successes in delivering technology services into government departments, this role will bring enthusiasm and determination.

The programme is at a crucial point in its lifecycle and a robust plan is required to successfully deliver its outcomes and benefits. Bringing best practice and an adherence to government standards for project delivery, digital and security, will allow the development of a plan that will combine the efforts of suppliers, internal teams and specialist resources required to augment the programme for specific activities. Planning for Development, Testing, Business Change and Operational Readiness will be essential and success will be determined by the active engagement of the whole organisation in these plans.

The Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Legal Practice Management (LPM) Programme, which includes Contentious, Non-Contentious and Technology Workstreams, Project Management Teams and the Project Management Office (PMO)
• Resource the programme with skilled and capability contributors, building a delivery-focused, resilient and high performing team
• Finalise and gain approval for the LPM Final Business Case
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders. Engage regularly and communicate widely.
• Develop, gain approval for and deliver the plan for the Beta Phase, including development, testing, operational readiness and business change.
• Monitor and maximise the delivery of benefits, as detailed in the Final Business Case
• Coordinate delivery, ensuring robust workflows and technology interfaces are developed and implemented, between the LPM platform and existing and future HR and Finance systems.
• Ensure that all relevant strategic, operational and programme risks are identified, mitigated and controls monitored
• Manage the LPM Programme Budget, ensuring reporting of forecasts and expenditure are reviewed and that any potential under or over-spends are alerted to the Finance Team as early as possible.
• Produce robust Management Information for the Programme Board, Delivery and Portfolio Assurance Committee (DPAC), and EXCO.
• Support the development and establishment of the Project Management Methodology with defined standards, documentation and Gate Lifecycle requirement.
• Routinely audit all projects for compliance to standards and methodologies, and conduct post implementation reviews to determine Lessons Identified and that Return on Investment (ROI) and Business Benefits have been achieved.
• Identify and ensure progress along the Critical Path between all activities of all projects within the LPM Programme and promote the Critical Path within the portfolio.
• Manage the LPM Programme Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) and associated project logs, advising the senior leadership of the decisions that may need to be taken.
• Ensure that the LPM programme implements and adheres to all appropriate Government Functional Standards (in particular GovS 002, 003, 005, 006 and 007) and the Government Digital Service s (GDS) Service Standards and Technical Code of Practice (TCOP)
• Ensure the programme works collaboratively with all functions and teams, especially Digital, Data and Technology professionals, delivering the highest quality outcomes as a result of collective design and delivery.

Key Outcomes

• The delivery of the LPM programme and its constituent projects to time, cost, quality and benefits criteria.
• Effective engagement and communication between Stakeholders, Business Systems Owners and the programme.
• Project Documentation produced to a high quality
• Business change and operational readiness is effective in order to allow the successful adoption of the new platform and working practices
• Post implementation and embedding activities identify learning for use in subsequent projects, learning can be demonstrated in subsequent project delivery

Experience

Essential must be demonstrated at application and interview

• Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering large scale transformation programmes incorporating delivery of new technology services
• Successfully completion of Government Project Delivery assurance gates
• Successful completion of Government Digital Service (GDS) service assessments

Desirable

• Experience of working with and delivering Legal Practice Management Systems
• Experience of delivering case management systems

Essential must be demonstrated at application and interview

• Technical Project Delivery Programme Director SCS1 Level Experience
• Stakeholder Engagement Expert Level
• Governance Expert Level
• Digital and Data Practitioner Level
• Business Change and implementation Practitioner Level

Qualifications

APM, MSP or Prince 2

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