Job Description
Community Integrated Care is on an exciting journey of transformation and growth and is looking to recruit a highly skilled Project Management Office Analyst to join the charity on a full time, permanent basis.
What is The Deal for you?
* Flexibility! You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
* Hybrid Working! Do you want to work from home? Or do you prefer being in an office? With this role you have the option of hybrid working from home or from our head office in Widnes - or a blend between the two! This is a national role that may require national travel on an ad-hoc basis with attendance at our Head Office in Widnes once a week.
* Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
* Best Lives Possible : You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible.
* Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
* Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing on line training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
* Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.
The PMO Analyst is an integral part of the Group Projects Team and will be responsible for developing new, and enhancing existing processes and working practices, to drive maturity in Project Management Office (PMO) service delivery and project delivery practices across the Portfolio. The role holder will perform governance, reporting, assurance and project support activities to enable the successful delivery of our strategic Portfolio - a collection of programmes and projects aligned to the delivery of our Best Lives possible strategy.
About the Role (list not exhaustive see attached JD)
* Own the monthly and quarterly Portfolio reporting processes to our Executive, Committees and Board, ensuring that information provided is timely, accurate and at the right level of detail to inform strategic decision making.
* Coordinate the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of all PMO processes and practices that translate the strategy into action to enable data led decision making regarding the Portfolio, ensuring the organisation operates effectively and efficiently and achieves / improves upon planned performance.
* Provide support to Project Managers by creating and updating project documentation, including project plans, status reports & other key project documentation to ensure excellent project governance is implemented.
* Work with Project Managers to manage and monitor project, programme and portfolio level risks, issues and dependencies to provide transparency and ensure that appropriate mitigation is put in place to drive positive outcomes.
* Develop, maintain and support the use of project management tools, templates and systems (E.g. Smartsheets) to enable consistent and effective project delivery and reporting activity across the organisation.
* Work with Project Managers, Project Leads and Finance Colleagues to track all costs associated with the delivery of the Portfolio in order to control and monitor project spend.
Our Ideal Candidate - skills and experience
* Educated to Degree level or equivalent work experience in a similar/ relevant role
* Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE 2 an equivalent project management qualification or suitable relevant experience (Desired)
* Experience working on large change programmes or complex projects with multiple workstreams and third parties in PMO roles(s). Undertaking activities to drive effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of change. E.g. project co ordination and support; performance tracking and reporting; process improvement & optimisation; risk, issue, dependency management; budget management; resource allocation; quality assurance; tool implementation and management; compliance & governance.
* Strong understanding of project management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
* Familiarity with project management frameworks such as PRINCE2 or Agile frameworks can be advantageous.
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.
Interested and want to know a bit more?
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