Innovation Portfolio Lead
3 days ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 279822**Salary**:
- £56,083 - £60,979**Job grade**:
- Grade 7**Contract type**:
- Permanent**Business area**:
- PINS - Strategy - Innovation and Improvement**Type of role**:
- Project Delivery
- Senior leadership
- Strategy**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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About the job
**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, South West England, BS1 6PNAbout the job
**Job summary**:
At the Planning Inspectorate we want to be prepared for the future (for both the disruptive challenges, and opportunities it will bring).
The Innovation Portfolio Lead role sits within the Innovation and Improvement area of the Strategy Directorate and is pivotal in helping to ensure we:
- Use the insights gained from colleagues, customers, stakeholders, and strategic foresight, to identify challenges and opportunities.
This will enable us to take advantage of new and innovative ideas, deliver radical step change and transform the way in which we work. So that we remain resilient to external change and continue delivering high quality, timely and efficient services.
The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.
We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.
For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached.
**Job description**:
We are looking for an experienced Innovation Portfolio Lead, with a with a passion for making innovative ideas a reality. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and applies creativity in problem solving.
Do you have a passion for engaging others in innovative ideas that has the potential to deliver transformation change?
If you enjoy the challenge of embedding an innovative approach within our organisation, then this is a great opportunity for you.
You will encourage functions and teams across the organisation to look at different ways of working. Providing opportunities to take their ideas through the innovation approach.
You will manage a portfolio of innovation projects. Co-ordinating the work of multidisciplinary project teams, to test high-risk ideas that have the potential to transform how we work. Delivering proven innovative ideas that are ready to transition to Business as Usual (BAU) or ready to scale.
**Hybrid working**
**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Proven experience in the leadership of internal and external teams in the delivery of complex projects and business change.
- Proven experience of a range of project delivery frameworks and methodologies (including Agile and Lean tools and techniques).
- Proven experience in working within an innovation environment using a hypothesis-driven approach, to manage risk and validate hypotheses (including assumed benefits).
- Ability to establish, encourage and motivate the project team.
- Ability to build effective and supportive relationships within teams, across the organisation and with stakeholders.
- Ability to retain a continued awareness of spend budget available.
- Ability to effectively manage supplier relationships to ensure delivery.
- Ability to communicate, influence and operate clearly and effectively at all levels, including Board level.
- Ability to successfully react and respond to challenge.
**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of delivering projects and change within a public sector environment.
- Ability to provide input into business cases.
- Experience of supporting Commercial and other colleagues in identifying appropriate routes to market, including frameworks, and effectively evaluating suppliers and ensuring value for money.
**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
**Benefits**:
- Flexible working options, including flexi-time, part-time, compressed hours and home working if suitable for the role.
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
- 25 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days after 5 years, plus 1 privilege day to mark the King’s birthday. In addition to the normal bank holidays.
- Generous family friendly policies.
- Fast and modern IT kit which utilises Microsoft Office 10 and O365, enabling seamless working from home and collaboration across teams.
For full information see our Benefits information pack.
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**Selection process details**:
- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**Application**
- ** Behaviour/Experience examp
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