Project Planner / Programme Planner - SC Cleared

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The role is for a Project/Programme Planner to join a large delivery team providing IT change to an MOD customer. The role will be based near Salisbury, Wiltshire. They will work within the P3MO team and work closely with the Portfolio Delivery Managers and multiple project teams in creating, maintaining, understanding and reporting Programme delivery

performance. These high level plans will clearly display dependencies, critical paths and areas of concern to inform senior stakeholders, enabling key decisions and direction to be made for the Portfolio.

Key Responsibilities.

The successful applicant will be required to:

- Create and maintain multiple Programme Plans, ensuring accuracy and clarity at all times.

- Present Programme Plans to key internal and external stakeholders of progress, impacts, critical paths and dependencies across the Portfolio.

- Provide a vehicle for early awareness of potential delays with suggestions for mitigating actions.

- Provide resource forecasts for all work streams, identifying and highlighting areas of resource constraints.

- Engage with, and challenge where necessary, multiple project teams in gathering a clear picture of Programme performance.

- Provide analysis of Programme performance both during and after Programme completion.

- Advise, monitor and support realisation of Programme benefits.

The Person:

The successful applicant will be cleared to SC level minimum, or be eligible for SC clearance. They will;

- Have demonstrable experience of all Microsoft Office applications with an expert understanding of Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

- Be able to simplify complex plans for presentation to non-IT audiences, thereby allowing the critical success factors and current issues to be understood.

- Understand the full IT project lifecycle from mandate to closure and onto benefits realisation.

- Be comfortable presenting and conversing at a senior level.

- Understand RAID within IT Programme and Project Management.

- Have extensive experience of IT project methodologies, both Agile and Waterfall.

- Have demonstrable experience in Dependency Management and be able to display such linkages within Programme

Plans and impacts to the Programme in the event of project slippages.

- Understand and be able to influence critical paths across Programmes.

- Be confident in challenging project teams to promote efficient use of resources and to deliver on time and to a high quality.

- Be able to demonstrate a clear level of planning control, governance and reporting with previous experience to confirm their understanding and ability to deliver.

Essential Skills:

The successful applicant will be qualified and skilled in:

- Risk and Issue Management, holding MoR foundation as a minimum.

- Dependency Management.

- Project Management, holding PRINCE2 foundation as a minimum.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.