Requirements
- Minimum of five years in IT project or programme delivery settings.
- Proven track record in supporting recovery or turnaround initiatives for struggling technology projects.
- Involvement in IT transformation efforts including infrastructure modernization.
- Experience with cloud migration programmes.
- Background in application implementation projects.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity improvement initiatives.
- Participation in digital transformation programmes.
- Operational experience within formal project delivery frameworks.
- Experience managing relationships with suppliers and key stakeholders.
- Solid grasp of project and programme management approaches.
- Hands-on experience with Agile, Waterfall, or mixed delivery methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage risks, issues, dependencies, and actions effectively.
- Capability to assist in planning, monitoring, coordinating, and executing recovery strategies.
- Strong skills in planning, progress tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
- Detail-oriented with the capacity to handle multiple concurrent priorities.
- Ability to produce and maintain accurate recovery documentation, dashboards, RAID logs, and action trackers.
- Knowledge of project financial oversight, supplier governance, and cost control practices.
- Skilled at identifying financial or commercial risks and escalating constraints impacting recovery success.
- Competent in core project management functions.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methods.
- Understanding of Waterfall delivery methods.
- Understanding of hybrid delivery approaches.
- Expertise in managing project risks and issues.
- Experience applying structured methodologies in recovery contexts.
- Proven ability to coordinate recovery execution across teams.
Nice to Have
- Interest in exploring AI-driven assurance and recovery techniques.
- Exposure to or use of AI-powered tools for programme assurance, recovery analysis, governance reporting, or delivery forecasting.
- Ability to assess AI-generated insights critically and convert them into practical recovery actions.
- Awareness of responsible AI principles and their application in programme delivery settings.
Required (25)
- 5+ years’ experience in IT project or programme delivery environments.
- Experience supporting recovery or turnaround activities for challenged technology projects.
- Experience working on IT transformation initiatives such as:
- Infrastructure upgrades
- Cloud migrations
- Application implementations
- Cybersecurity initiatives
- Digital transformation programmes
- Experience operating within structured project delivery environments.
- Familiarity with supplier and stakeholder management.
- Good understanding of project and programme management methodologies.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery models.
- Strong risk, issue, dependency, and action management capability.
- Ability to support delivery recovery planning, tracking, coordination, and execution
- Strong planning, tracking, and coordination capability.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to maintain high-quality recovery documentation, dashboards, RAID logs, and action tracker
- Understanding of project financial management, supplier governance, and cost-control disciplines.
- Ability to identify financial or commercial risks and escalate constraints that may affect recovery outcomes.
- Good project management capability.
- Understanding of delivery methodologies:
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Hybrid delivery models
- Strong risk and issue management expertise.
Preferred (4)
- Identify opportunities to apply AI-enabled assurance and recovery techniques
- Exposure to, or experience applying, AI-enabled tooling to programme assurance, recovery analysis, governance reporting, or delivery forecasting.
- Ability to critically interpret AI-generated insights and translate into actionable recovery decisions.
- Understanding of responsible AI governance, considerations within programme delivery environments.
