
Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience of Project Management and evidence of delivering complex large projects
- Experience
Experience of line management duty and leading project teams
- Experience
Experience of leading business realisation with a clear focus on patient experience and outcomes
- Qualifications & Education
Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualifications & Education
Educated to degree level or equivalent with post graduate qualification or experience in an IT project management-related subject
- Planning & Organisational Skills
Ability to working to regular, tight deadlines
- Planning & Organisational Skills
Robust risk management experience
- Planning & Organisational Skills
Ability to forward plan, experience of succession planning and experience of assessing digital maturity within an organisation
- Communication & Relationship Skills
Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Significant experience of managing high profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust
- Experience
Experience of working within a PMO and following PMO processes
- Qualifications & Education
Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills
- Planning & Organisational Skills
Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Communication & Relationship Skills
Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills
Job overview
We require a Senior Digital Project Manager, with excellent project management experience, as well as technical knowledge, to work as part of a dynamic and agile Infrastructure team.
The post holder will be responsible for running technical projects and programmes, both internally and for our customer base.
As a Senior Digital Project Manager you will need to provide budget and financial assurance for your portfolio of projects, ensuring value for money from project resources.
You will manage and monitor individual related project budgets, monitoring costs, expenditure and benefits.
As an individual you will have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate in both a technical and non-technical language. You will maintain effective engagement with customers and project team members in a variety of formats, so the progress of the project at each stage is understood and managed.
Main duties of the job
- Evaluates complex situations using multiple sources of information to validate and interpret.
- Manages and appropriately escalates: risks, issues, and changes associated to the project delivery
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels
- Analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties
- Assigns and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget
- Creates a method of change management including ownership of documentation, communication plans, process training, etc.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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This advert is for Senior Digital Project Manager with The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in Dudley, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Project manager role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 Pro Rata Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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