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Operational Lead (Inside IR35)

Are you an Operational Lead/Operations Manager with experience leading and managing a team within a Programme / Project environment?  If so we would like to hear from you!

Imagine having a talent that could benefit someone you’ve never met and solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Well, you do, and you can. And we’re here to help you do just that. At PSR we are the go-to place for talented contractors and temps for a rich variety of civil service roles.

As Operational Lead, you will: 

• Lead and manage Department  Operations Team (including the Briefing Manager and Operations Officers on shift)
• Delegate operation Officer roles to that shift’s operations officers, and record this delegation in the Department Operations Log
• Proactively advise Head of Department  on key issues
• Coordinate with the Policy & Commercial Team Lead
• Coordinate and share information and issues arising with the Departmental Operations Centre (DOC) team
• Review and authorise Daily Situation Report (SITREP) and Department  briefings
• Be the primary point of contact for DfT EU Exit Operations Centre
• Maintain situational awareness of operational deadlines

You’ll have:

• At least 2-3 years operational management experience in a high performing team
• Experience of working in a complex Programme / Project environment, with demonstrable skills involving pro-active forward planning, with knowledge of operation and project management concepts and processes
• Experience in managing and leading a team, achieving targets set out by senior management
• Experience providing strategic and commercially sound advice and expertise in a fast paced environment
• Proven experience in influencing senior internal and external stakeholders
• The ablity to illustrate how to successfully lead a team or manage a project
• Flexibility in your approach to work as shifts on a rota basis will be required for the role

It would be great to also have:

• Experience of working in central government, service experience
• PRINCE2 Practitioner level qualification or equivalent
• Previous experience working in freight/logistics/transport sector

If this sounds like you and you would be interested in being added to our pipeline, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.

"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."