PMO LEAD

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PMO MANAGER - MUST HAVE SET UP PORTFOLIO OFFICE BEFORE

REMOTE

ASAP START DATE

12 MONTH CONTRACT

INSIDE IR35

RATE - NEGOTIABLE

Overall Purpose:

Establish and operate the portfolio management office for the National Core Study on COVID Transmission and the Environment ensuring that initiatives and fully planned, tracked, managed and reported on in terms of their performance, operation, financials, and impact / balance of the overall portfolio.

The portfolio covers six themes of research activity supported through a mix of sixteen suppliers creating a complex and challenging portfolio to manage and report on.

Key Responsibilities:

* Provide an overview of theme programmes and their interdependencies, reporting anomalies to the Portfolio Manager.

* Produce analyses to support the balancing of the portfolio in terms of strategic goal attainment.

* Provide support materials and reports to the Portfolio Management Board, Programme Director, and Portfolio Manager to enable effective decision making.

* Maintain the reporting dashboards.

* Maintain the portfolio delivery plan.

* Maintain the integrated theme risk and issue logs

* Maintain and keep updated the portfolio dependencies register.

* Perform periodic reviews of the theme and supplier programme and project activities to ensure reasonable levels of planning and control are in place and make recommendations for improvement.

* Provide supporting information to Procurement, Central Finance, Portfolio Finance, and related personnel.

* Provide a centre of expertise and develop programme and project management templates that can be called upon by theme leaders and suppliers. Ensure the templates are logically linked in with the theme portfolio reports.

* Provide a focal point for advice to theme leads, programme managers, suppliers and project managers on best practice programme and project management.

Essential Skills and Experience:

* Proven experience of establishing, running and finally closing a Portfolio, Programme or Project Office across a portfolio in excess of £50M

* Deep experience in managing complex external supplier and partner relationships

* Experience of working in the public sector and in academic environments

* Experience of research projects is highly desirable

Ways of Working:

* Highly motivated self-starter capable of working independently and remotely

* Comfortable and motivated to deliver both strategy and operations. A roll-up-your-sleeves approach

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.