I am recruiting for several PMO role that are responsible for ensuring the effective governance, coordination, and tracking of all CIP initiatives, providing structured oversight, risk management, and financial validation across all savings workstreams. The key roles and responsibilities of the PMO function are set out below :
Duration: 6 months and likely to be extended
Grade 7 & 8b
1. Establishes & maintains the governance framework to ensure CIP projects align with strategic objectives
2. Provides independent challenge and scrutiny of savings plans to ensure they are realistic, deliverable, and risk-mitigated.
3. Acts as the central coordinating body for all CIP workstreams to prevent duplication & maximise efficiency.
4. Ensures all divisional teams work within a consistent project management framework.
5. Facilitates collaboration between corporate and operational teams to ensure alignment of savings initiatives.
6. Working alongside the finance function it will maintains the CIP Dashboard to track financial and operational delivery of savings schemes in real time.
7. Provides regular progress updates to the Savings Programme Board, FPPC and Trust Board.
8. Identifies under performing schemes early and escalates risks for intervention.
9. Develops a CIP risk register to monitor and manage project risks.
10. Ensures all risk mitigation plans are in place for high-risk initiatives.
11. Conducts post-implementation reviews to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvements
12. Testing of CIP ideas to validate feasibility i.e. cash releasing
13. Support phasing of plans to ensure deliverable and robust.
14. Ensures consistent use of project management methodologies across all savings schemes.
15. Develops and maintains standardised project templates, reporting tools, and assurance frameworks.
This programme manager role will provide expert change and programme management expertise and lead in collaboration with Divisional colleagues, both small scale and complex, large-scale programmes that deliver the above objectives.
Main responsibilities:
16. The post holder will be responsible for leading a number of complex large scale programmes and the associated business change activities. Responsible for the successful delivery of the required outcomes, including governance and assurance, monitoring, risk management and ensuring the business is ready for change.
17. Leading transitional processes as part of their improvement partnership, either involving the transfer of existing portfolio programmes from corporate areas into the Divisions as well as supporting the embedding and sustaining of new improvements once designed and implemented