Venesky-Brown''s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager for an initial 24 month contract on a salary of £50,253/annum. This role will be hybrid working with 2-3 days per week onsite. Responsibilities: - To manage a project through its life cycle stages of identify, initiate, plan, execute, deliver and close. Ensure that progress is tracked, and activity is appropriately monitored and controlled, to enable effective project governance including decision making. - Lead on the continual project planning process and maintain project delivery momentum aligned to the constraints of time and cost as defined as part of project initiation. Ensure assumptions are tested, dependencies are monitored, and innovative ways to unblock issues are identified. - Identify and build relationships to ensure the required multidisciplinary resource to deliver the project is secured. Ensure the delivery flow of the project team is optimised by providing direction, support and coaching to project team members ensuring they are aware of, and able to deliver, their project responsibilities. - Provide regular, standardised and accurate project management reporting. Providing overview reporting and management information for inclusion in project and associated programme governance reporting. Monitor and report on the key project aspects of scope, cost, plan, deliverables, issue and risk. - As a member of the programme and project managem