Synergy HR Project Manager


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£44,052 to £52,010 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bristol
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

The Synergy@Defra Programme team is looking for energetic, resilient and service-focussed Project professional who can develop and lead effective projects across Defra group HR in preparation for Synergy.

The Synergy programme covers Defra, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, and the Home Office. It will implement a new technology platform for HR, Finance and Commercial functions, a new Business Process Service contract, and stand up a new inter-departmental Shared Service Organisation.

This role represents an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of change, contributing to the delivery of a programme that will affect over 250,000 civil servants, providing business critical tools in HR, Finance, and Commercial functions.

This role is aligned to Project Manager SEO in the Government Project Delivery Capability Framework (https://projectdelivery.gov.uk/government-projects-academy/project-delivery-capability-framework/).

Precise responsibilities will be flexible, but we expect the post holders will:

Create, lead and manage projects and project teams to deliver successful outputs to time, cost and quality measures.
Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Design project structures and adopt appropriate methodology and controls to drive effective transition between phases
Develop, maintain and track the project plan. Identify and set appropriate stage checks and report progress.
Develop, manage and control the project budget. Identify skill requirements and deploy appropriate resources. Assure and track performance against forecast profiles.
Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned with appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy in place.
Identify, nurture and manage stakeholder relationships. Capture feedback to challenge the project, amend plans and provide focus on critical delivery points.
Identify, monitor and track risk. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.
Provide reports as necessary and support effective governance and decision making.
Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.
Ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
Develop, draft and manage project-level business cases if needed for investment to onboard into the programme working with colleagues across the organisation.
Implement, monitor and enable continuous improvement through process, sharing and embedding lessons learned. Report and communicate activities and key messages.
Provide coordination, direction and guidance to a virtual team. Ensure that individual and organisational learning opportunities are fully exploited in order to enhance organisational capability

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