Role
Responsibilities:
1. Building and managing strong relationships across the Senior Management group and Executive team. This will be critical in accessing the data and input you need to provide effective reporting and oversight.
2. Helping to develop and improving our approach to programme, project and change management including benefits tracking, risk management and assurance
3. The adoption of project, programme and portfolio management processes and tools
4. Ensuring that our governance frameworks are effective and that we continue to develop them so we can make the right decisions affecting the portfolio
5. Using your experience and knowledge to build project and change management capability across the organisation, for example coaching colleagues, helping people run smaller projects and delivering skills training
6. Establishing and sharing best practice so there should be a continuous drive to benchmark against other organisations and improve methods of working
7. Supporting the Head of PMO and Director of Transformation with the running of the various Exec update and decision-making forums e.g., ExCo portfolio meetings; Transformation Committee meetings; etc; continually proposing enhancements to the way those are run to ensure they achieve their objectives and are a good use of stakeholders' time
Experience needed:
8. Leading a Portfolio Management Office
9. Aggregating information from range of sources to provide insightful portfolio reports to Executive level management
10. Building relationships and working with senior leaders across the complete spectrum of the organisation
11. Several years direct, first-hand experience managing projects at a level to be confident instructing and guiding project managers; advising on project planning, financial and resource estimation, tracking and control, schedule and RAID management, communication, governance, and reporting
12. Coaching, mentoring, and developing more junior members of staff
13. Applying your knowledge and experience of methodologies combined with a pragmatic approach to ensure work is delivered efficiently and effectively
14. Being qualified in project, programme and change delivery methodologies such as PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, P3O, PMP and APMP
15. Understanding the problems an organisation is trying to solve, spotting complexity and interdependencies, and planning the right approach across multiple pieces of work
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