Junior Project Manager
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
Our IT team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.
We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.
Join our I.T. Team as a Junior Project Manager
Smooth-running, dependable systems are essential to any modern and flexible organisation. This is particularly so for One Housing. With our various departments, locations and diverse services, our I.T. specialists encounter a broad range of changing requirements and fresh challenges.
We offer the opportunity to put your problem-solving skills and technical knowledge to fantastic use, in support of an organisation with a social purpose and strong values.
We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.
The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Junior Project Manager in London.
Salary: £38,000 - £46,000 per annum
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing initiatives and product delivery that span one or multiple lines of business
- Liaising with IT Management to project manage IT Technical Services projects, including assisting with the formation and management of project teams (including 3rd parties and contractors where necessary), assembly and management of project budgets and overall project management to deliver systems solutions.
- Managing project issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline.
- Providing weekly progress reports to the Project Board, PMO and other senior stakeholders
- Creating and managing the implementation plan
- Managing and coordinating all activities by the business including finance, communications, key revenue making teams and IT teams as well as external suppliers/consultants
- Effectively managing risks, issues and dependencies
- Creating and maintaining project documentation according to PRINCE2 and OHG PMO
- standards with support from the Programme manager or senior project manager
What you will need to succeed
We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who demonstrates a friendly, positive demeanour.
The successful candidate will have:
- A good understanding of project management principles, methods and techniques
- Previous experience of implementing both Infrastructure and software projects
- A good high level technical understanding of IT infrastructure, networking, databases, applications and systems
- A solid track record of successful IT implementation project delivery within cost, time, quality, scope, risk and benefit constraints
- The ability to create Project Management documentation, tools and reports, such as Business cases, GANNT charts, PIDs, Dashboard reports and RAID logs
- The ability to manage Agile stand-ups
- Previous experience of IT implementations involving integrations with systems
- Previous experience of IT implementations involving external IT suppliers
- Experience of successful business change management
- The ability to influence and motivate managers and staff across the business and external suppliers to ensure project milestones and objectives are met
- Excellent planning, communication and stakeholder management skills
The offer
Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.
- Salary: £38,000 - £46,000 per annum
- Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
- Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.
About us
As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.
At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our hybrid working policy, our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.
We understand that the different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.
We welcome applications from everyone.
Apply today for a fulfilling career in our I.T. team.
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Job Reference: OH00400