Dio - Mpp PMO Schedule and Capacity Planner

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 285233**Salary**:

- £41,000- + Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% and additional benefits.**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - COO (Major Programmes & Projects) - UK Strategic Command Overseas**Type of role**:

- Planning
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Andover, SP11 8HJ. Other DIO locations may be considered.About the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe

**About DIO**

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**Job description**:
Major Programmes and Projects (MPP) are the capital infrastructure delivery specialists to the DIO & MOD. Based UK & Overseas, our dedicated professionals are passionate about the work they do and the projects we deliver as an organisation. These include the building of runways and jetties, key refurbishments, accommodation for US Forces and much more.

MPP’s portfolio includes high profile and sophisticated projects, with Major Programmes value in excess of £1bn. We have 7 directorates, some of which are directly aligned to our Front-Line Commands, which strengthens our support in the delivery of Capital Infrastructure. Army, Air, Navy, UK-UKStratCom, United States Visiting Forces (USVF), Defence Continuity Team (DCT) and the Portfolio Office. All are diverse and unique, delivering excellence to our customers and stakeholders. Our reach is exponential, and no two days are the same

We are excited to offer the opportunity for a Schedule lead within MPP UKStratCom, one of our professional teams.

The Scheduler is responsible for the development of the Command Infrastructure Delivery Programme (CIDP) working collaboratively across multiple customer stakeholder communities. Working with Programme Management Office (PMO) leadership to build a plan of agreed deliverables to fulfil the annual customer demand, ensuring MPP UKStratCom has adequate project management and commercial resources to deliver outputs.

The role will play a proactive part in analysis of data to provide insights into current and future resource demand, project and programme complexity modelling and impact of programme and portfolio risk to delivery. Previous experience working in a high functioning project delivery profession will be required to meet the demand of this role.

It is important to note that being a reserved position and requiring Developed Vetting means that this position is only open to Sole UK Nationals and you must have resided in the UK for the last 10 years.

This is a hybrid role, meaning there will be a combination of home and office working, with the expectation that you will work in the office at least 2 days per week.

**Person specification**:

- Support to Leadership and Management within the UKStratCom PMO and wider MPP
- Working collaboratively with the customer and delivery teams agree an annual programme of deliverables to meet customer requirements
- Implement the use of MS Project Online throughout the 1* delivery area
- Support the creation of baselines for the portfolio in MS Project Online to inform assurance activities and milestones held within the IMS system
- Schedule planning sessions engaging with all key partners to ensure all customer demands are met
- Provide project schedule scrutiny as part of the assurance process
- Work with the MPP Portfolio Manager for UKStratCom to understand any new project injects to the plan
- Ensure adequate optimism bias has been removed from programme milestones
- Plan with the Customer Support Team to ensure the CIDP plan and deliverables are endorsed by the 1* Programme Director and 1* Customer Infrastructure Leads
- With a focus on continuous improvement develop the capacity plan, monitoring current project management resource and performance to advise the future ability to meet demand
- Development of accurate resource and forecasting models for current and new projects, working closely with delivery teams, Portfolio Office and the customers to enable delivery teams to hit their agreed in year deliverables
- Support the development of the capacity and planning tools and services across the MPP PMO community
- Build and maintain a repository of good examples of programme and project planning documentation
- Demonstrate the benefits of effective planning to key collaborators in the wider business
- Collaborate with the leads of the other teams/functions within the MPP to identify and impl