Planning and Risk Manager

Planning and Risk Manager

BPSS Clearance Required

Outside IR35

360 per day

Hybrid

Edinburgh

6-month contract

Harvey Nash's public sector client is seeking a Planning and Risk Manager to drive forward planning, monitoring, and reporting of workstreams. You will work directly to the programme manager and closely work with the legal team. The role requires a team member with strong stakeholder and people management skills together with sound project management credentials.

Main Duties

• Lead the monitoring, updating and reporting of the plan working with the programme manager and teams. Identify dependencies, critical activities, and pinch points, seeking solutions to those issues with the relevant team, escalating as appropriate to the senior team and Board.
• Implement risk strategy, including identifying and constructively challenging mitigation plans and associated RAIDs including monitoring and escalation through to resolution.
• Commissioning updates to desk instructions etc to support teams fulfilling their part in the delivery of the work.
• Implement robust governance framework to deliver accurate and timely reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Capture and maintain the lessons to be learned log, synthesising lessons and identifying opportunities to implement the lessons.

• Comprehensive and demonstrated experience of leading, supporting, and maintaining complex programmes across multiple teams using recognised Project Management methodologies.
• Ability to extensively demonstrate planning and risk expertise, supporting and advising colleagues across a range of business areas through to resolution.
• Demonstrate strong people management skills working across multi-disciplined teams
• Ability to add value by coordinating and driving consistency in joint working and reporting, across multiple profession
• Excellent networking & influencing skills