NEC Project Manager
Role Overview
Lead end-to-end NEC system implementations and enhancement programmes across business-critical workstreams.
Own delivery from initiation through go-live, including governance, technical dependencies, stakeholders, budgets, resources, and risks.
The posting describes a six-month contract with a local authority.
Key Skills for This Role
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Job purpose
Lead end-to-end NEC system implementations and enhancement programmes across business-critical workstreams.
Own delivery from initiation through go-live, including governance, technical dependencies, stakeholders, budgets, resources, and risks.
The posting describes a six-month contract with a local authority.
Project delivery and governance
- Lead NEC system projects, modules, and concurrent workstreams; develop project plans and delivery roadmaps.
- Coordinate deployments, module dependencies, integrations, and critical delivery paths.
- Manage governance, milestones, budgets, resources, reporting, change control, and RAIDD logs.
- Identify, mitigate, and escalate risks; manage stakeholder, supplier, and technical-team coordination.
- Oversee UAT, operational readiness, deployment, testing, validation, and release sign-off.
- Support business change, user adoption, operational handover, continuous improvement, and lessons learned.
Essential requirements
- Significant experience delivering NEC system implementations and managing multiple modules simultaneously.
- Experience leading end-to-end system delivery programmes and complex organisational projects.
- Experience in governance, change control, risk management, stakeholder engagement, system integration, and supplier management.
- Experience managing concurrent technical and business workstreams and maintaining RAIDD logs.
- Experience overseeing UAT and go-live activities; knowledge of project management methodologies.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, organisation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and deliver to challenging deadlines.
- Experience managing budgets, resources, and programme reporting.
Desirable experience and qualifications
- PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, APM, or equivalent project management qualification is desirable.
- Local Government or Public Sector experience is desirable.
- Experience with NEC Housing, Revenues and Benefits, Asset Management, Housing Repairs, or other NEC software is desirable.
- Knowledge of migrations, integrations, business transformation, software vendors, implementation partners, or service transformation is desirable.
Location and hours
- The role is based in Hackney.
- The stated working hours are 36 per week.
Payment frequency
- The posting states bi-weekly payments; this cadence does not map to the available salary-period values.
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