Project Director

The purpose of this role is to drive and oversee the delivery of assigned projects, ensuring objectives are clearly defined and achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Creates and leads the project team to deliver agreed outputs/outcomes within scope, time, cost, and quality constraints. Promotes the wider good in all actions, acting in a morally, legally, and socially appropriate manner in dealings across project stakeholders and team.
• Project Team Management: Manages the project team on a day-to-day basis, appropriate to context and project stage. Clearly defines, agrees, and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects.
• Project Business Case and Benefits Management: Supports the project sponsor to prepare, gain approval of, refine, and update business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs, and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them. Works with project sponsor, programme managers, and business benefit owners to support identification, tracking, and delivery of benefits set out in business case.
• Project Budget and Cost Management: Manages budgets for projects. Controls and reports on forecasts, changes, and actual costs against the budgets.
• Governance: Establishes and maintains effective governance and decision-making for the delivery of projects; defines clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, that align with programme and/or organisational practice and requirements.
• Project Plans and Controls: Designs, consolidates, and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, approach, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities, and issues, and quality requirements). Establishes, and implements where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update configuration documents as required.
• Scheduling and Dependency Management: Develops, produces, and maintains schedules for project activities that take account of dependencies, resource requirements, and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits. Maps project dependencies and identifies owners, builds dependency management into the project's governance cycle. Works with programme/project managers and business leads to ensure dependencies are actively managed, acts as an arbiter and enforcer, and resolves issues between the various elements of the project.
• Project Resource Management: Develops, implements, and updates resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects (incl. external required resources), taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances.
• Stakeholder and Communications Management: Identifies and manages pertinent project stakeholder relationships (taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests), communications, and need for senior-level support. Ensures continual alignment with programme (if applicable), wider portfolio management, and organisation communications. Manages internal and external relationships as appropriate. Proactively identifies, addresses, and seeks to resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups.
• Project Risks and Issues Management: Identifies and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities) and issues. Develops mitigating actions and escalates as appropriate. Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencies.