Role profile

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Post Number(s)

Indicative Job Grade: PO3

Directorate: Programmes and Change, Assistant Chief Executive’s

Service: Corporate Programme Management Office

Reports to: Programme Manager

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

Residents are at the heart of our work at Hounslow. Through our ambitious projects and
programmes of development, change and transformation we are connecting and
delivering support, opportunities and improvements across the borough that will make a
difference for our residents.

The council’s Delivery Plan describes the activity that we will deliver to meet our priorities,
objectives and ambitions as outlined in the Corporate Plan. As an Assistant Project
Manager you will support the delivery of projects and programmes in the Delivery Plan
following our One Hounslow Approach to Project and Programme Management, which is
based on leading practice. These may be concerned with change and transformation or
capital development and regeneration.

You will be a part of and will support multi-disciplinary project teams from across the
council, partners and external advisors which are formed to ensure successful delivery of
projects and programmes.

Your role will be varied – sometimes you may be responsible for the update of project
documentation, logs and reports, sometimes you may be responsible for delivery of a
workstream, or even a small project within a programme.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Promote the One Hounslow values in everything that you do to engage, empathise
and build relationships to successfully delivery projects

• Support the delivery of projects and programmes through a collaborative and

engaging approach working alongside teams, partners and communities

• Support (and at times be responsible for) the development of high quality

documentation throughout the whole lifecycle of a project following the One
Hounslow Approach to project and programme management

• Support the development of high quality and robust business cases and actively
support benefits management processes throughout the project and programme
lifecycle

• Support a range of processes associated with the delivery of projects and

programmes including risk and issue management, budget management, benefits
management

• Support the delivery of project and programme governance processes

• Engage with and support the use of a range of approaches to project delivery

• Be an active participant in the PMO, supporting the development of the service and
its processes, procedures and approaches

• Participate in groups outside of your professional function – be a corporate citizen

• Support work to enable Hounslow to become an even more inclusive organisation,

putting equality front and centre of project delivery

• Support work to deliver the council’s sustainability commitments ensuring that

sustainability is considered throughout the lifecycle of every project

• Use verbal and written communication skills to communicate with and engage
internal and external stakeholders with the delivery of the project

• Participate actively in the corporate project and programme quality assurance

processes

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These are the values that drive us:

Lead with heart

We’re here for the people of Hounslow. We work together with them and for them with
care and compassion, with patience and in partnership. We put ourselves in other’s
shoes, remembering that every person is different, and every interaction is a real
moment in their lives. We always feel first.

Do new

We need to do things differently if we’re going to help Hounslow people thrive in the
future. Hard work is important but it’s not enough on its own. We need to challenge
ourselves to break new ground, invent new approaches, try new ideas keep moving
forward and keep improving. That means being ready to stop doing things we’ve done
before. It means taking on risk and backing each other when we take a leap.

Pass on the power

The world keeps on changing and we need to change with it. We won’t be able to adapt
fast enough to the future needs of our residents if we stick to old fashioned command
and control. We need to hand over responsibility and give people more power to make
decisions and take action themselves. It’s about being transparent and straightforward.
It’s about providing tools and support. But most of all, it’s about being ready to trust
each other to do the right thing.

Harness the mix

We work together, across disciplines and roles. We talk lots, share our insights, our skills
and experience. We’re not interested in siloes or defensiveness. We’re always open to
different approaches, we’re flexible and ready to adapt. We break down the barriers
between our parts and people to unlock the problem-solving power of our amazing mix
of minds.

Be a rock
There’s lots to do and people need us. It’s up to us to take the initiative. To take
responsibility. To stand up and be counted. Everyday. It’s about being super focused,
effective and efficient. It’s about allocating our resources smartly and with good
rationale – using data to help guide our decisions. But most of all, it’s about having the
strength and determination to keep on going through thick and thin.

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The Top 5 things about you that are most important:

• You are an aspiring project manager with an interest and understanding of project
management tools and techniques; you will have an ambition to develop and build
your experience and expertise in a complex, challenging and high-performing
environment

• You are a good communicator skilled at communicating with diverse stakeholders in

writing and verbally

• You are highly organised and analytical with an attention to detail, but also with an
ability to be creative and do things differently

• You have excellent IT skills across the core Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, WORD,
PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams etc)

• You will be a champion of our values; you have an open mind towards solutions, a
desire to listen to many diverse voices, to pause and reflect, to embrace and
understand the complexity and to support the delivery of projects and programmes
with residents and staff

Qualifications:

1. PRINCE2 / APM (or equivalent) or willingness to work towards this

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