Project Governance Specialist

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Barclays Full time

As a Project Governance Specialist at Barclays, you will play a key role in leading project governance and team capacity across the S&T team. This includes ownership of the central strategic plan, adverse milestone reporting, central capacity plan, and RAID log.

The role focuses on delivery, adverse milestone monitoring, reporting, and building and proactively managing multiple stakeholder relationships. You will engage with the senior management team, project management, and shared service community on a regular basis.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support portfolio management, including facilitating portfolio prioritisation and ensuring compliance with the Barclays Control Framework.
  • Monitor portfolio performance, tracking project progress, identifying thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management.
  • Collate and maintain portfolio documentation, including aggregation of book of work, schedules, and budgets.
  • Evaluate the potential impact, feasibility, and resource requirements of different change proposals.
  • Provide recommendations on which proposals to pursue based on alignment with strategic goals and organisational priorities.

Vice President Expectations

  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
  • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

The Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship are expected to be demonstrated by all colleagues, as is the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.



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