Senior Project Manager DDaT

Job Title Senior Project Manager DDat
Grade I Starting Salary £55,944
Contract Type Permanent

Staffordshire Police is continually striving to deliver the best possible service for the county’s residents, businesses and visitors. It is a fast-paced organisation, adaptive to modern policing needs and open to continual improvement. 

Everyone who works for the force has an important role to play in shaping the future of Staffordshire Police. The force seeks people who will champion new ways of working, be collaborative and agile and represent in a fair and ethical manner those that Staffordshire Police serves. 

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About the Opportunity

The newly formed Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Team are responsible for transforming and supporting all the force's digital technology needs.

Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) are the forefront of technological change across our IT estate, so we need motivated and enthusiastic engineer who can work well as part of a team or as an individual and is keen to join a team focused on the future and be part of our journey in delivering critical IT systems to front line policing and staff members.

If you’ve got an IT background that involves strong interpersonal skills and a keen attention to detail while delivering excellent customer service, we’re looking for an Senior IT Project Manager to join our restructured in-house IT team within Staffordshire Police.

The DDaT Project Manager role holds responsibility for delivering projects to a professional standard, ensuring all resource activities are correctly managed, coordinated, governed and successfully delivered. Regular reporting on project status and progress is an essential expectation of the role, alongside risk management and benefits tracking.

The post holder must hold a good understanding of project management best practices and be familiar with different approaches, as well as capable of overseeing multiple smaller changes and tasks are delivered concurrently. All progress against project deliverables needs to be well documented and understood throughout the department.

Effective stakeholder communication is essential, as is a strong technical knowledge for resolving and expediting project actions across the DDaT Department.

This role will provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues on Project Management and delivery approaches, deliver large complex projects or collection of unrelated projects in parallel.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience delivering multiple complex IT projects
• A Project Manager practitioner qualification such as APM-PMQ or PMI-PMP
• A degree or equivalent experience

Further details of the key tasks, responsibilities can be found within the role profile.

Please upload your CV and cover letter

Closing Date: Monday 15th December 2025 - 12 Midday.

In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:

• Pension Scheme - Employers Pension contribution 21.5% Staffordshire Pension Fund - Staffordshire Pension Fund - Home (staffspf.org.uk)
• Generous holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays.
• Flexible / Agile Working
• Sick pay scheme
• Fostering friendly policy
• Family friendly policies – maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption, disability leave and carers leave
• Access to health and wellbeing support
• Eye care vouchers
• On site Gyms
• Staff associations
• Reward and Recognition
• Blue light Card
• Flexible working options
• Training and development opportunities
• Car lease scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free Parking at selected sites
• Onsite catering facilities
• Access to Staff Networks
• Union support
• Financial products and services 

Please note that applications are welcomed from all suitably qualified/experienced individuals. However prior consideration will be given to applications from individuals who are ‘at risk’ and employed by Staffordshire Police. If an appointment is made from that at risk group, the post may be withdrawn. In this event, a representative from the People Services team will notify any affected applicants.

Staffordshire Police is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve. 

Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit.  We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.

We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-In support and advice sessions.  If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Police we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.

For more information on Positive Action please email the team on positive.action@staffordshire.police.uk 

For any Recruitment queries please email hrrecruitment.team@staffordshire.police.uk

Residency Eligibility 

Please note you will need to have been a resident in the UK for the last three years consecutively for RV Level roles and five years for MV Level roles (see below link around Vetting for more information)

Please note if you are successful at interview and commence pre-employment checks this will include vetting, please see what this involves and the process via the below link: 

Police vetting process | Join The Police (joiningthepolice.co.uk)