Project Manager – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Job Title: Project Manager
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £48,710 – £53,780
Location: Service Headquarters, Kelvedon Park*
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
*We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours and location.

Are you an experienced Project Manager with a passion for making a real difference? Join our Innovation & Change team at Essex County Fire & Rescue Service and play a role in delivering projects that enhance public safety and emergency response.

The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to start with us as part of our Innovation and Change Team. The successful candidate will be required to lead and co-ordinate critical projects that support the Service’s mission of making Essex safer together.

You will work closely with operational teams and stakeholders across the Service, as well as external suppliers and partners to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard.

Key Responsibilities:
Managing multiple projects as required, from inception to completion within agreed timescales and budget, in accordance with best practice and Service governance.
Developing detailed project plans, identifying critical milestones and inter-dependencies, both internal and external, as well as project assumptions and dependencies.
Collaborating with stakeholders across the Service, as well as external partners and suppliers.
Working closely with our Senior Leadership Team, as Project Sponsors.
Identifying and managing project risks and issues.
Providing clear reporting and updates to stakeholders, through Service reporting mechanisms, as well as playing a key role at Project Boards.

About You:
Proven experience in project management.
Strong leadership and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities are essential, sufficient to write complex reports and engage with employees, managers and partners to influence effective delivery of the Service vision.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Relevant project management qualification (e.g. Prince2, Agile or Change Management) is desirable.

What You Will Be Working On:
Working with other change professionals and senior management stakeholders you will assist in the delivery of our Change Portfolio.
Our Change Portfolio consists of a diverse range of projects from ICT systems, estate management projects, operational solutions and other transformational change projects
Working together with our Service functions to gather requirements as part of any procurement activity
Completing Change Impact Assessments as part of our Change Delivery team.
This role will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.