Lead project manager
Band 8a · Project manager · 547 job evaluation points
A lead project manager leads the most complex projects or a group of related projects, and sets project management practice for their area.
Responsibilities
- Lead the most complex projects, or a group of related projects, across several services or organizations.
- Set project management standards, templates, and assurance for the area, and coach project managers.
- Advise senior responsible owners and boards on delivery options, risks, and recovery of struggling projects.
- Manage significant budgets and contracts, and make sure projects give value for money.
- Make sure clinical safety and information governance requirements are met across the group of projects.
- Line manage project managers.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Project management | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Planning | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Stakeholder relationship management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Managing decisions and risks | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Financial management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Commercial management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Organizational risk management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Understanding health and care services | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Clinical risk management | Working (2) | You can:
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| People management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- Extensive experience of leading complex projects, with a recognized project management qualification or equivalent experience.
Band 8a outline
- Knowledge
- Expert knowledge of a discipline and its management.
- Autonomy
- Interprets organizational policy for a service; sets the team's direction.
- Scope
- A service area or a discipline across the organization.
- Leadership
- Manages a team, or leads a discipline without line management.
- Accountability
- A service area, its staff, and its budget.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 5 | Gives highly complex or contentious information needing developed persuasion and negotiation, presents to large groups, or communicates where there are significant barriers to acceptance. | 45 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 7 | Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (master's level or equivalent). | 196 |
| Analytical and judgmental skills | 5 | Judgments on highly complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 60 |
| Planning and organizational skills | 4 | Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed. | 42 |
| Physical skills | 2 | Skills gained through practice, such as standard keyboard use or driving. | 15 |
| Responsibility for patient and client care | 1 | Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact. | 4 |
| Responsibility for policy and service development | 4 | Implements policy and develops policy or services for a service or several areas. | 32 |
| Responsibility for financial and physical resources | 3 | Authorizes payments, buys some assets or supplies, monitors or holds a delegated budget, or maintains assets. | 21 |
| Responsibility for people | 3 | Manages a group of staff day to day, teaches core or specialist training, or gives core HR advice. | 21 |
| Responsibility for information resources | 5 | Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty. | 34 |
| Responsibility for research and development | 1 | Carries out surveys or audits for own work; occasionally takes part in research or testing. | 5 |
| Freedom to act | 5 | Works within general policies, and in most cases decides how to interpret them. | 45 |
| Physical effort | 1 | Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort. | 3 |
| Mental effort | 3 | Frequent concentration on unpredictable work, or occasional prolonged concentration. | 12 |
| Emotional effort | 1 | Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances. | 5 |
| Working conditions | 2 | Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days. | 7 |
| Total (Band 8a: 540 to 584) | 547 | ||
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