Are you a skilled expert in driving good governance to enable the smooth and effective end to end of delivery of programmes and projects?Do you want to work closely with our team of Project Managers, playing a key role in supporting significant and impactful change?Are you adept at engaging a wide-range of stakeholders to inform and enable high quality outputs? As the Charity Commission's Portfolio Management Office (PMO) Manager, you will be at the forefront of ensuring the smooth and effective end to end delivery of our portfolio of programmes and projects. You will achieve this through close working with our Project Managers, applying best-practice project management practices, utilising various tools and techniques to proactively support effective change. In parallel, you will have a focus on embedding and continuously improving our project governance frameworks, ensuring that they are value-adding and accessible. You will tailor your communication and engagement to inform and influence a wide-range of stakeholders, promoting an organisation-wide commitment to follow and deliver best-practice approaches, designed to ensure that we are in optimum shape to help deliver our priorities as set out in our Strategy 2024-29 and our Corporate Business Plan 2024-25.,
* Establish and maintain governance arrangements for the delivery of projects, defining clear roles and responsibilities and accountabilities that align with the Commission's project governance framework.
* Embed project governance framework across the Commission, pro-actively working with the Head of Change and Portfolio and the Project Managers to ensure that all projects are managed effectively, providing assurance that agreed benefits will be realised.
* Enable Project Managers by providing support and guidance, whilst also constructively challenging when applicable; advising on the development, production and maintenance of business cases, supporting the construction of suitable requirements and their transition to the appropriate resources; maintaining project plans, creating backlog & burn-down reports, time, resource, cost and exception plans, and the use of related software tools.
* Provide advice and challenge as necessary to ensure we can provide relevant information in line with agreed templates that will support an effective, transparent, reliable project / programme governance process, including on status; financials; resource requirements; risks and issues and their mitigation; dependency tracking; and benefits realisation.
* Pro-actively promote the required standards, methodologies and tools across the community of Senior Responsible Owners, Project Managers and project teams, including business representatives.
* Maintain an accurate project register containing all projects and potential projects. Track and report on programme/project progress, status and performance. Ensure timely reporting & documentation and highlighting any deviations from standard processes and associated risks.
* Focus on the continual improvement of our frameworks in line with lessons learned and feedback received to ensure they reflect best-practice.