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Job Description
Closing Date
25/04/2025Job Title: Project Sponsor
Location: Falmer
Salary: depending on experience
About Us:
At Southern Water we are committed to providing highquality water and wastewater services across our regions. We are seeking a dynamic Project Sponsor to lead and support our strategic programmes ensuring they are aligned with business goals to deliver the intended benefits. If you have experience in project and/or programme sponsorship project governance benefits and financial management within the infrastructure or utilities sector this is an exciting opportunity for you.
Role Overview:
Reporting into the Strategic Programme Sponsor the role holder will ensure the programme vision and programme level strategic objectives are translated to a project level for delivery purposes. They will ensure projects within the strategic programme support the Programme business case and project outcome requirements are appropriate to support the business case. The Project Sponsor will be an advocate for the project he/she is assigned ensuring delivery teams remain in governance holding them to account on project financial and schedule performance whilst assisting with appropriate risk management to ensure projects deliver the intended benefits expected of the wider programme.
Key Responsibilities:
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- Project Outcome Alignment: Ensure project delivery requirements are set to align with strategic objectives with a clear expected timeline for benefits realisation.
- Viability: Create and ensure currency of project level Project business cases escalating any risks or threats to the Strategic Programme Sponsor.
- Financial Management: Seek financial authority through governance forums focusing on value for money and appropriate risk allowances. Ensure project costs are aligned with the Plan addressing any deviations in collaboration with the Strategic Programme Sponsor.
- Project Delivery Oversight: Maintain daytoday oversight of project progress ensuring milestones are met throughout the project lifecycle (whether via the internal R&V gates or the Regulatory RAPID gated process).
- Stakeholder Management: Identify and engage with stakeholders which may involve Regulators ensuring their needs are met and they are informed of project progress.
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- Risk & Opportunity Management: Identify project benefits risks and opportunities driving value for money and mitigating risks where possible.
- Regulatory Assurance: Ensure the timely provision and quality of documentation required for regulatory submissions and external publications.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strong decisionmaking ability using evidence and experience to guide choices.
- Ability to focus on the bigger picture ensuring customer benefits are prioritised in decisionmaking.
- Skilled at communicating complex information clearly and effectively to various stakeholders.
- Ability to resolve nondelivery issues such as governance financing and project direction.
- Strong interpersonal skills to build rapport with the project delivery team PMO and external bodies (e.g. Regulators other water companies).
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload while maintaining focus on key priorities.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Indepth understanding of the project lifecycle cost principles and investment appraisals either directly as project Sponsor or via project delivery experience.
- Familiarity with project management practices gated process reviews benefits management and valueformoney appraisals.
- Experience in asset management and strategic risk identification and management.
- Exposure to largescale infrastructure projects preferably in the water/utilities sector with knowledge of Regulated industries.
- Understanding of financing models such as DPC/PFI.
Qualifications:
- Essential: A degree or equivalent qualification in a numerate or technical discipline.
- Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. Institute of Asset Management Chartered Management Institute RICS Association of Project Management).
- Postgraduate experience in project or programme sponsorship ideally within the water or infrastructure sector.
- Desirable: Exposure to the water/utilities sector asset management principles and largescale infrastructure financing.
Why Join Us
At Southern Water you will play a key role in shaping the success of our strategic programmes helping us to deliver benefits for our customers communities and the environment. We offer a competitive salary excellent benefits and the opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment.
Apply Today!
If you are a strategic thinker with a proven track record in programme sponsorship and project governance we would love to hear from you. Join our team and make a lasting impact on the future of water and infrastructure services.
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