Broadband Project Director-Broadband Delivery-Local Government Job in London, London UK

Broadband Project Director-Broadband Delivery-Local Government

Broadband Project Director with experience of delivering Broadband projects within a local government environment is urgently needed to manage a large £530 million rural broadband delivery programme to ensure effective roll out of superfast broadband to 90% of premises and universal availability of standard broadband. The Broadband Project Director will be responsible for engaging with Local Authorities to develop, procure and implement local broadband projects.

Broadband Project Director-Broadband Delivery-Local Government

Essential Skills;

+Previous experience of working in a Senior Level/Director capacity in a Project Delivery role within a local government environment which requires a procurement phase.
+Knowledge of local government business cases, government contracting approaches, Local Authority Approval processes and project management.
+Experience of leading large local government projects.
+Knowledge of local government business cases, government contracting, EU structural funds, project approvals and project management.
+Experience of managing large broadband projects within a local government environment.
+The Project Director must have experience of working with local authorities on projects owned by the Local Authority or ERDF funding.
+Experience of working on third party suppliers and on large scale procurement projects.

Broadband Project Director-Broadband Delivery-Local Government

Desirable Skills;

+Knowledge of European structural funding (ERDF/RDPE) and local authority funding.
+Experience of performing a consultancy Project Director role on local authority projects that are owned by local authorities and delivered by third party suppliers.

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