Technical Project Manager at National Savings & Investments, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £218 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back more than 150 years to 1861.

A small company with a big reach. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.

This role is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard and financial credit checks.

Job Purpose:

The Technical Project Manager role is essential to maintain delivery momentum and ensure continuity of governance, reporting, and risk management during a critical transition phase.

As a Technical Project Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Oversee the delivery of the project to ensure that objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints.
• Play a key role in project governance, working with stakeholders to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable the projected benefits to be realised.
• Design the project structure appropriate to stage, selecting and applying relevant delivery methodologies.
• Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues.
• Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
• Ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

Essential:

• Strong project delivery and governance expertise across large-scale, multi-supplier programmes.
• Proven ability to plan and manage complex releases, coordinate cross-functional teams, track dependencies, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery within constrained budgets.
• Experience of transformation delivery in government or financial-services contexts desirable.
• Experience in the delivery of projects, governance and risk control frameworks.
• Experience in MS Office including Projects & Excel

Desirable:

• ServiceNow
• JIRA

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NS&I guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.