Communities & Skills is led by Executive Director, Tunde Olayinka and is comprised of the following units: Civil Society & Sport, Communities & Social Policy, Group Public Health Unit, Skills and Employment and Health, Children and Young Londoners.
About the role
The Greater London Authority are looking to recruit a permanent PMO Manager. You will be working in the Communities and Skills Directorate, as part of the Performance and Improvement function ensuring an effective, centralised PMO supports the directorate. The PMO Manager will be responsible for overseeing the governance, processes, and reporting for multiple programmes across the directorate.
What your day will look like
* Overseeing the development and delivery of the PMO infrastructure for the communities and skills directorate.
* Supporting the establishment and operations of the internal governance structure
* Support and oversee the performance tracking and reporting to relevant mayoral boards.
* Co-ordinating programme co-ordinators/PMO leads who sit within teams across C&S who support delivery of mandated programmes.
* Connect with PMO leads across other Mandates and communities of practice to ensure alignment and sharing of good practice.
* For all programmes, work with programme co-ordinators to ensure proactive management, monitoring, verification, recording, analysis and reporting of programme.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
* A degree or professional qualification in portfolio, programme or project management or in management of project/Programme management office (PMO) or related subjects preferably to post graduate level or equivalent experience.
* Evidence of well-developed IT skills, solid experience of using financial management systems and portfolio/programme/project (PPM) software, and excellent report writing skills
* A thorough knowledge of programme and project management and control techniques.
* Strong analytical and written skills.
* Building and Managing Relationships - Level 2
* Managing and Developing Performance - Level 2
* Problem Solving - Level 2
* Responding to Pressure and Change - Level 2
The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework
This role is based at London Fire Brigade's Head Office (Union Street SE1 0LL).
How to apply
If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:
* Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above in the advert.
Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement have a maximum file size of 1.5MB each and upload your Personal Statement to the 'CV and Cover Letters' section' of the form, ensuring you address the technical requirements and competencies in your Personal Statement.
Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g., CV - applicant name - 012345)
Equality, diversity and inclusion
London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.
Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview.
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