Overview
It’s a fantastic time to work for the Environment Agency as we step forward to tackle the climate emergency. Do you want to help make England a better place to live and work in?
As a member of the FCRM Improvements Portfolio team, you will be supporting the Portfolio Management Office and sub portfolio’s project and programme work delivering over £150m of improvements in the next three years. You’ll play a critical role in helping us to better inform the changes we are delivering, which in turn will enable us to deliver outcomes that protect communities and businesses from the devastating impacts of flooding.
Team context
Our Improvements Portfolio is a professional portfolio, programme and project management service in the Flood & Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) directorate. We drive innovation and continuous improvements across FCRM and Incident Management and play a key part in delivering our corporate and FCRM strategies and delivery plans. This covers almost all of the national business improvement in FCRM.
Responsibilities
* Start up and inform new projects, help assure live projects, support our project managers, build relationships with the Portfolio Management Office, and help improve and embed our portfolio management and data practices.
* This role is suitable for someone with data analytics and/or project management skills who wishes to gain experience at programme/portfolio level.
Experience / qualifications
* Formal project / programme management experience is essential.
* Highly numerate with data gathering, manipulation and interpretation skills; working knowledge of Microsoft Excel; experience of Power BI / Tableau (or similar) is desirable.
* Experience in a project support role in a complex organisation using Agile and waterfall methodologies.
* Administrative and organisational skills, supporting regular meetings, agendas and minutes for the Portfolio governance cycles.
* Financial data management and project planning skills desirable.
* Ability to gain credibility, respect and cooperation across the business through collaborative behaviours.
* Experience in tackling and automating routine issues with a continuous improvement mindset.
* Ability to work with uncertainty and find innovative solutions to problems.
Note: This role is not eligible for Skilled visa sponsorship. Responding to incidents is a central part of the work and may include an incident role (virtual) with training and additional payment; alternative working arrangements are available to enable this.
Additional information
Blended home and office working is supported; the team is dispersed across the country with potential travel and overnight stays. We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you have questions, please contact Arifur Rahman, Portfolio Delivery Manager (arifur.rahman@environment-agency.gov.uk).
We are committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce and welcome flexible working patterns for all vacancies, including job share. We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria.
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