Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager (Contract)

Organisation: HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

Location: Hybrid / UK-based (travel as required)

Day Rate: £610 per day (Outside IR35)

Contract Length: Up to 6 months initially (with potential extension)

About the Programme

HMCTS is delivering major, complex and high-impact programmes across the justice system. These require experienced senior leadership to drive delivery, maintain governance and assurance, manage risk, and engage senior stakeholders.

Join Our Team

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager to lead complex workstreams and programmes end-to-end, operating confidently with senior governance and ensuring delivery remains controlled and outcomes-focused.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage complex, interdependent projects/programmes and set appropriate delivery methodologies and controls.
• Establish and maintain governance and assurance, including effective reporting structures and early identification of delivery issues.
• Provide expert support to business case / project brief development and ensure stakeholders are aligned to scope, outcomes and delivery approach.
• Lead budget forecasting and ensure delivery is tracked against budget and performance expectations.
• Develop and maintain benefits realisation approaches (strategy/models/tracking) to evidence outcomes.
• Manage risk and issue control with appropriate escalation and mitigation.
• Lead change control and scope management, ensuring impact is assessed and decisions are governed.
• Coach/mentor others and build delivery capability within the wider team.

Essential Requirements

• Significant experience delivering complex programmes/projects in public sector environments.
• Strong governance, assurance, stakeholder management and delivery control capability.
• Security Clearance (SC) - essential (SC is explicitly required for HMCTS Senior Project Manager roles).