Job Summary
At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we provide a service that is unique, we help our donors do something extraordinary to save or enhance a life in need. You too can join us and play your part in our life-saving organisation.
Join our dedicated team in NHSBT organ donation and transplantation. You’ll be part of a programme team at the forefront of organ transplantation projects, ultimately saving and improving lives. The establishment of a national Assessment and Recovery Centre (ARC) service will extend equitable access to life-saving products and treatments to everyone that needs them and bridge the gap between shortage of organs available and demand.
You will have an innovative, problem-solving approach, with strong stakeholder management skills and experience in implementing risk management and governance processes. By being part of a passionate, enthusiastic, supportive, and high performing team, you will build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
You will contribute to life-saving work, where every day promises diversity and excitement managing critical programmes aimed at enhancing organ donation and transplantation services.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for ensuring effective planning and oversight of delivery of a nominated directorates investment and transformation portfolio and programmes, within the agreed schedule and quality standards. This includes:
1. Working with the planning lead in the directorate to engage stakeholders within and across directorates to gather requirements and provide effective tools to plan the portfolio across the directorate.
2. The postholder will develop and implement long term strategic plans which need to align with the wider NSHBT strategies and context which impact across the organisation
3. Working closely with other programme and portfolio managers / leads in the directorate and across the organisation to ensure alignment on assumptions of cross-directorate resourcing and interdependencies for delivery within agreed time, cost and quality standards, and within risk limits.
4. Managing the interfaces and communications with the senior stakeholders, including the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), the Business Change Lead, the Business Leads and Operations Leads.
5. Preparing and maintaining portfolio and programme plans and publishing these to the SRO and project, programme and portfolio boards as required, responding to challenge and questions about progress on delivery.
6. The line management of their team of project management staff, including setting and monitoring objectives and personal development plans ensuring that they are highly motivated, operate to the highest professional standards, and comply with all relevant internal and external standards, regulations and instructions, including Quality Assurance, GMP and building regulations.
7. The development and ongoing management of partnerships with external suppliers.
8. Undertaking health checks for projects, programmes and the portfolio, liaising with the central team for assurance input (internal and external) Communicating service-related information to decision makers, the Programme Management Office (PMO), Business Lead, programme and project teams to achieve positive business outcomes.
9. Participate in the development and improvement of the NHSBT Strategy, Portfolio, Programme and Project Management tools and methods.
About You
Experience and Knowledge
10. Proven ability to manage multi-million-pound projects and their associated budgets.
11. Experience of reporting to Executive and Board level.
12. First-hand experience of the application of Risk Assessment and Risk Management techniques appropriate to business needs.
13. Proven resource management and allocation experience, including those not under direct line management control.
14. Extensive knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office products, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Specialist knowledge of Microsoft Project
15. Extensive experience of working with a variety of project methodologies (PMI/Prince 2), tools and standards of service delivery and vendor evaluation using formal programme and project management tools for the full life cycle of large-scale projects.
16. Extensive experience of creating business cases, capturing business requirements and business benefits management and realisation.
17. Proven experience of conducting post implementation reviews.
Qualifications and Training
18. Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject or equivalent experience plus highly developed, in-depth experience, specialist knowledge, expertise and qualifications as specified below.
19. Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE 2 or similar related level of qualification
20. ITIL Foundation certificate, or equivalent/demonstrable work experience.