Senior Planner

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

- 373063**Salary**:

- £57,000 - £67,100- National pay locations: Bristol £57,000 - £62,700.
London pay locations: Westminster £61,000 - £67,100.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Public Safety Group**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Business Management and Improvement
Digital
Information Technology
Planning
Project Delivery
Quality**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, WestminsterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation.

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) is a cross departmental, multi-agency programme based within the Home Office. Its central purpose is to deliver the Emergency Services Network (ESN), which will provide critical mobile broadband voice and data communications services to the police, fire and ambulance services (and other public safety bodies) across England, Scotland and Wales.

We need skilled planners within the ESMCP Project Management Office (PMO) established to support the G6 Head of Planning and Integration and/or relevant leads within the PMO and wider Programme. If you're ready for the next step in your career to take on a really challenging, complex and rewarding major Programme, this is the job for you?

**Job description**:
This is a specialist role within the ESMCP Project Management Office (PMO) established to support the G6 Head of Planning and Integration and/or relevant leads within the PMO and wider Programme.

The post holder will;
Delivery and leadership - Provide visible and effective leadership and work with Project Managers (PM) to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.

Develop clear vision and standards and champion the use of best practice project planning standards, tools and processes. providing practical advice which ensures plans are tailored to the needs of the programme and fit for purpose, within a fast-paced technical delivery environment.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Project performance and controls - Analyse performance data, looking at trends to identify areas for improvement and collaboration, and selecting appropriate methods and tools to resolve them.
- Guidance and support - Provide specialist advice and support to ensure successful delivery of projects. Provide guidance and advice to the Project Manager during project initiation on selection of planning approach, tools, processes and proportionality. Identify and lead the introduction of best practice planning processes, tools and templates, using industry standard best practice as a benchmark. Build planning capability.
- Line management of a number of Senior Executive Officers (SEO), Project Planners, encompassing task management, professional and career development, HR activities etc.

Please note: The London office is currently based at Clive House (SW1H Zone 1). However, the office will be relocating to Stratford (Zone 2/3) with expected relocation at the end of 2024.

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- Demonstrable experience of leading credible planning action, development and reporting in complex, fast-paced, challenging environments;
- Practical experience of engaging, motivating and coaching others to work towards a clear common goal. An experienced and credible role model inspiring and empowering others.
- Practical experience of recognising, anticipating and effectively dealing with existing or potential conflicts at an individual, team or strategic level.
- Experience of administering and leading internal and external planning reviews and updates, contributing to assurance reviews within a programme or large project environment;
- Experience of establishing a collaborative planning management culture, where there is a focus on the identification and tracking of risks, issues and dependencies, responsibilities and assumptions;
- Previous experience of working across multiple project delivery workstreams to build and deliver fit for purpose planning structures and plans, within a challenging environment, or for large projects or programmes.

**Desirable criteria**
- Recognised qualification in risk management or project management (e.g. APMQ, MoR, Pri