Assistant Head Portfolio Assurance

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

- 251991**Salary**:

- £53,500**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Army - Army Headquarters, Andover**Type of role**:

- Governance
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Andover, South East England, SP11 8HJ - Permanent Duty Station - The Army is operating under the Governance guidance for hybrid working which states 40-60% (2 - 3 days) of time in the Andover office.About the job

**Job summary**:
Grow your expertise across an outstanding range of projects. Our work is anything but uniform.

Army Headquarters employs over 1000 Civil Servants, over 170 within the Programmes Directorate area. Our diverse workforce is dedicated to delivering the Army’s Modernisation Agenda, which is a portfolio of largely capital equipment programmes, with the objective of transforming the way in which the Army operates and the equipment it uses, and its’ people are critical to the success of delivering this wider portfolio.

Why join the MOD Project Delivery Professional Community?
Everything the UK’s armed forces do is enabled by teams of Project Delivery Professionals, taking care of every detail. They bring different skills and experience from different backgrounds to one shared mission - to help protect, defend and support everyday life across the UK and beyond. From every item of basic equipment to the most sophisticated ground-breaking technology imaginable, every new project brings outstanding possibilities and challenges. And we’ll ensure you’re equipped to succeed, with a range of training and development opportunities.

The Army’s Programmes Directorate brings together all the key change programmes within the Army to optimise their delivery, and to direct and monitor the Army’s change portfolio to ensure that programmes are delivered to performance, cost and time. The Directorate will also drive effectiveness, resource prioritisation, and excellence in project and programme delivery. Director Programmes is responsible for the pan-Defence Line of Development (DLOD) development and delivery of new Army capability within the Change Portfolio.

The Army has an exciting Civil Service opportunity as part of the wider Government Project Delivery Profession. Project Delivery is the UK Government’s function for Project, Programme and Portfolio management (P3M).

The Army intends to manage Project Delivery skilled staff on a flexible basis to ensure that programmes have the talent required to deliver outputs and improve opportunities in support of skills development and wider career pathways. Successful applicants may therefore be redeployed flexibly within the portfolio as priorities change and programmes start and stop.

We are passionate about Smarter Working and believe that a combination of flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces will give you the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance, while ensuing you deliver your outcomes effectively and efficiently - we expect you to know where to be to have the most impact, balancing your individual needs with that of your team and the organisation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The Programmes Change Portfolio Office operates as a key component within the Programmes Directorate within Army Head Quarters. This newly formed Directorate brings together all the key change programmes within the Army to optimise the develop and deliver activities alongside an Integration Design Authority in a single 2* Directorate. This enables the Directorate to direct and monitor the Army’s change portfolio to ensure that programmes are delivered to performance, cost and time. The Directorate acts as a standard-bearer to drive effectiveness, resource prioritisation, and excellence in project and programme delivery, governed and assured through a portfolio approach.

The Programmes Change Portfolio consists of c43 major change programmes and covers equipment, infrastructure, personnel, information and business change (efficiency) activities and represents a total investment of circa £30 Bn+ over 10 years. The Army has elected to put Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) at the heart of its operating model.

The Programmes Change Portfolio Office has oversight of the portfolio driving evidence-based decision making to underpin successful programme delivery. Ensuring that effective governance and assurance are in place, and that portfolio, programme and project standards are maintained. The portfolio office will: flexibly deploy resource; provide SME advice; support capability development; provide analysis and insight to senior decision makers; ensure that effective governance and assurance is deployed; and programmes are appropriately resourc