About This Role

• Actively contribute to the maintenance of New Business, Transition & Transformation Programme governance and standards within the Project or Programme Office through ensuring accuracy of data and reported MI
• Design and/or manage governance processes to assure the effective application of Project or Programme governance including; planning, change control, risk and issue management, dependencies, resource management, work order engagement and budget control, etc.
• As a member of the PMO Family, contribute to the setting and maintenance of best practice standards for Project or Programme Office Management or support within Strategy and Growth
• Enable and analyse regular monitoring of each Project or Programme against agreed measures and produce recommendations for action to improve data quality and delivery
• Build and maintain effective partnership relationships within the Project or Programme to support effective delivery
• Monitor and co-ordinate control of Project or Programme budget and reporting and ensure timely provision of accurate and meaningful MI, highlighting issues for escalation
• Support relevant Programme management to create and assure the timely and accurate production of non-resource and resource plans so as to identify relevant skills, knowledge and experience requirements
• Creation, maintenance and quality assurance of Workstream/Release/Programme Plans and production of reporting artefacts such as ‘Plans on a Page’
• Management of direct reports including performance management, career development, recruitment succession planning, communication and other related activities
• Deputising for the Project or Programme Office Manager in their absence

• Appropriate Project Management and/or Project/Programme Office e.g. APMP, ISEB at a foundation level
• Strong written and presentation communication skills
• Strong people and team management skills
• Strong quality and delivery focus
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills and ability to build productive working relationships
• Proven ability to analyse a broad range of management information, identify recommendation actions and develop reports that drive improvement
• Excellent working knowledge of Office products, particularly PowerPoint and Excel with an ability to create and manage medium complexity spreadsheet solutions
• Previous experience as a Project Office Analyst
• Previous experience in a commercial, administrative or industrial environment with previous experience in Programme / Project environment
• “Customer service” focus with emphasis on support and delivery

The hiring manager to contact is: Martin Griessel HM Name Email: martin.griessel@diligenta.co.uk

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