Job Title: / Project Manager
Location: / Wells
Salary Range: / £43,023 - £46,335 per annum, pro rata
Reports To: / COO
Full/part time / P/T Fixed term for 6 months in the first instance
Secondment opportunity
The Aim of The Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust:
To ensure that every school within the Trust provides an outstanding education for every child, rooted in its distinctively Christian ethos.
Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust Mission Statement: John 10:10 ‘That they may have life, life in all its fullness’
The Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust’s mission is to provide an education which is life-enhancing for every child. We promise an experience which is lovingly inclusive to all pupils.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this job is to:
Project manage the Bath Hub schools’ conversion process to ensure a smooth transition and that each school feels part of the trust.
The project manager role involves the start-up, planning, management, assessment, execution and close down of a project to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved within the time and budget parameters set for the project.
Working with all teams across the Trust, particularly schools, School improvement, finance, operations and HR, to support a programme of continuous organisational performance improvement which helps the Trust achieve its ambition of becoming a high performing organisation.
Lead and manage a delivery of aligned programmes, including the provision of team and individual solutions across the organisation aligned with the Strategic Plan.
To be responsible for the development of the communications strategy for the Trust.
Main Responsibilities and Duties
Schools Conversion
- To manage the conversion process for each school joining the trust. Pulling together the individual teams, external suppliers and functions that are required to deliver and support new schools.
- For a group of schools that will make up a new HUB, the project manager will enable more collaborative pre conversion workstreams to ensure that the culture of each school is firmly in place to operate the HUB school Improvement model.
- Liaising with all stakeholders through the conversion process to ensure all statutory and local consultations take place within the timelines.
- Ensure Governors are clear on the Scheme of delegation and are operationally effective post conversion.
- Ensure all actions are undertaken by the relevant team in accordance with the conversion planning document.
- Develop and improve conversion documentation for new schools joining the trust.
To oversee corporate projects and to ensure the desired result is achieved, the most efficient resources are used, and the different interests involved are satisfied.
- To representing the Trust’s interests, and provide advice on the management of projects organising the various professional people working on a project.
- Payroll and HR system Optional Appraisal
- General Data Protection Regulations Compliance
- Manage the change process in any staff restructures or reviews
- Manage the change process in any major system or procedural design change
- Bring together the relevant teams to provide clear business reasons and benefits of change.
- Ensure the implementation of change has been communicated with clarity and that all schools impacted have been informed.
- To be responsible for the development of the communications strategy for the Trust.
- To be the Trust’s face for communications with a focus on new Schools or Hubs joining the Trust.
- To be responsible for managing all internal and external communications for the Trust ensuring its messages are consistent.
- Implementing communications plans to increase the Trust’s brand awareness and recognition for the organisation.
- Collating and analysing current communications and messages and ensuring consistency.
Supervision and Management
To lead on large corporate projects which may require managing a team/facilitating.
To lead on Organisational design and embed within the Trust.
Mentoring & coaching.
Problem Solving and Creativity
Highly creative and influential individual who has the personality and emotional intelligence to empower and enthuse others.
Revising and composing new strategies.
Having fresh perspective and coming up with new ideas alongside tackling issues.
Clarity of responsibility and accountability
A strategy for people and their development
Providing a culture that encourages people to be their best.
Key Contacts and Relationships
BWMAT SLT
Board of Trustees
BWMAT Central team
BWMAT Academies staff
Prospective schools
Governors
Other MATs
External Suppliers
Decision Making
You make autonomous decisions at time, however, the work will be carried out in conjunction with and the support of SLT who would all be in agreement.
Resources
Working Environment
Being flexible and responsive to service needs within the Trust.
Office based with travel across the South West
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Job Title: / Project ManagerLocation: / Wells
KEY CRITERIA / ESSENTIAL / DESIRABLE
Qualifications and Experience /
- Degree level, Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Extensive senior management experience in a complex delivery environment demonstrating delivery of change and operational planning
- Considerable experience in the design and delivery of organisation wide change management programmes
- Experience of policy development and implementation that reflects both corporate and system wide directives
- PRINCE II Project management
- Accredited award in Coaching and/or Action learning
- Previous experience within the Education environment
- Experience large scale change programmes within Education or within a relatable sector
Knowledge /
- Extensive, highly developed specialist knowledge in organisational development
- Able to demonstrate up to date knowledge of theory and good practice in key areas: - Organisation development particularly around change management and developing organisational culture – Project Management.
- Track record in delivering successful OD projects and supporting major organisational change; influencing, building and sustaining relationships in order to achieve results.
Skills and Abilities /
- High quality relationship management, influencing, facilitation and presentation skills
- Strategic thinking, planning and analysis skills, with the ability to develop creative solutions to support the management of change
- Presence and credibility to work with the SLT and seniorcolleagues across the Trust
- Highly organised and able to manage a broad portfolio of activities
- IT Literate, with good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint High quality personal governance and commitment to the Trust’s and organisational values
Work-related Personal Requirements /
- Highly organized and able to manage a broad portfolio of activities
- Evidence of strong customer focus, with the ability to create excellent working relationships at all levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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