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 (reflecting HMCTS senior PM expectations):

• 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).

Contact Us:
For further information, please contact John Lavictoire, Director at Seymour John Public Services