Senior Project Management Officer

UK Biobank have an exciting opportunity for **Senior Project Management Officer** to join the team.

Location: Stockport

**Salary**: £34,000 - £37,500 per annum depending on experience

**Job Type**: Permanent full-time posts available

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

**Who is UK Biobank?**
UK Biobank is a major international health resource, with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses. UK Biobank follows the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants,collecting health information which is globally accessible to academic and health researchers.

**Senior Project Management Officer** - The Role:
The Senior PMO Officer is responsible for delivering, maintaining and continuous improvement of the PMO’s long-term strategy ensuring the PMO’s service offering is embedded into the business. The post holder will report into and work under the guidance ofthe Snr PM & PMO Manager to ensure the PMO success

**Senior Project Management Officer** - We’re looking for someone to:

- Work with PMO members and other departments to define, prioritize, and develop projects
- Assist the PMO Manager in planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables
- Assist with the analysis of risks, resource allocation, and financial data (including set up / management of project budgets and the provision of financial reports and budget outlines to Executives)
- Oversee the development / execution of projects, ensuring that Project Managers and other team members are able to operate effectively and efficiently whilst also adhering to the company standards and processes
- Draft, gain agreement to, and implement changes and enhancements to the existing project management framework
- Continuously evaluate projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
- Work with PMs to create / maintain accurate project documentation including scope, budget, risks, status and justification
- Provide appropriate PMO support in scheduling project meetings
- Maintain project documentation, eg project plans, risk and issue logs and change control records, etc
- Produce / update reports & KPIs and other project documents (eg SOPs)
- Assist PMs in updating project budgets and recording / allocation of costs
- Undertake other administrative duties (eg monitoring participant feedback, producing feedback questionnaires, assisting with stock management, coordinating equipment calibration and servicing - as agreed with individual PMs)
- Support projects by ensuring the reports and/or dashboards are designed and configured with in Power BI to support the operational needs
- Deputise as appropriate for Snr PM & PMO Manager, as appropriate/requested

**Senior Project Management Officer** - This is what we’re looking for:

- Demonstrable team leadership experience
- Project Co-ordination, Project Management, or Project Office experience
- Experience of working with/within a project or admin office
- Excellent communicator, both spoken and written
- Able to work accurately and with attention to detail
- Able to exercise good judgement and appropriately prioritise tasks
- Excellent organisational skills; possesses the ability to work under pressure
- Able to work without day-to-day supervision
- Able to report on progress

It would also be great if you had:

- A degree or higher qualification
- Familiar with / have experience of working within formal quality systems (eg ISO27001, ISO9001, etc)
- Recent quality auditor training / experience
- Experience of writing SOPs
- At least 2 years’ experience of supervising a small team

**Senior Project Management Officer** - Benefits**:

- 26 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Christmas Closure
- USS pension scheme (9.8% employee contribution & 21.6% employer contribution)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
- Enhanced company sick pay scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Annual Flu vaccination
- Perkbox employee discount platform scheme
- An active social committee who organises events throughout the year
- Flexible work life balance policy

By working for UK Biobank you are part of an organisation whose mission is to contribute to improving the health of future generations.
UK Biobank strives to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, within which we can ALL be ourselves.

For further information about UK Biobank please visit our website. You can also visit our careers page where you can find information about working at UK Biobank and guidance to our recruitment process.

To submit your CV for the exciting **Senior Project Management Officer **role, please click ‘Apply’ now