PMO - Lead

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Key deliverables and duties for the project

The PMO Lead will ensure appropriate governance and assurance arrangements are in place to support the successful delivery of the Digital Workplace programme and associated DIT projects,

The key duties and deliverables* for the role will be:

*Lead DIT PMO governance processes, ensuring all governance steps are performed as necessary.

*Support project leads in developing project plans, maintaining, and updating project information, tracking actions and milestones, key performance indicators, risks and issues and quantitative/qualitative benefits.

*Produce, consolidate, and issue reports as necessary with input from taskforce leads, in line with the programme's governance requirements.

*Maintain the register of programme risks and issues, escalating risks and issues, and review with Programme Director, DIT Strategy and Governance.

*Ensure that project and agile best practice approaches are in place and applied to existing and new plans and projects use the most appropriate tools and methodology.

*Ensure the programme and project documentation library is kept up to date.

*Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports for governance groups as required.

*Analyse and interpret complex data sets and be able to produce digestible reports for multiple audiences.

*Support the management of dependencies and interfaces between elements of the programme and projects.

*Maintain excellent links with, and work across departmental and organisational boundaries, to take a whole system approach to designing and implementing changes.

*These deliverables and duties will be defined in more detail with the Transformation PMO Manager once in role. Other deliverables may be identified during the course of the contract.

Skills and Experience

Essential skills and experience required*

1.Experience of managing the delivery of a Programme Management Office, projects and/or change programmes with demonstrable successful delivery of programme and project outputs to required time, quality, and cost.

2.Experience of co-ordinating and managing projects in complex and challenging programme environment.

3.Evidence of being able to manage and plan a broad range of complex activities and diverse workloads, developing detailed programme and/or project plans.

4.Comprehensive IT skills with experience of using Excel for analysing and producing data, collating power point presentations, Word for producing professional briefing documents, MS Project, PowerPoint, etc.

5.Demonstrated ability to develop, produce and present a wide range of complex information reports and analysis on a regular and ad hoc basis. Reports include spreadsheet-based reports, which need to be presented in a high quality and user-friendly format.

6.Problem solving - Demonstrated ability to analyse problems in a logical and structured way using qualitative and quantitative information, supporting the generation of innovation solutions, and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes.

7.Evidence of highly developed negotiation and influencing skills in complex and highly contentious situations.

*Suppliers who do not have all the essential skills listed above will be rejected.

Additional desirable skills and experience

1.Demonstrated ability and experience in facilitating workshops, meetings, and engagement sessions.

2.Experience of working successfully with technical, clinical, and managerial leads in transformation programmes.

3.People management skills: including staff management, staff development and team building.

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