Quality Assurance Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:
203037

**Salary**:
£39,390 - £52,289

Salary between £39,390 and £52,289 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package

**Grade**:
Other

R&O 8 - Specialist

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Business area**:
TPR - Finance and Operations

**Type of role**:
Administration / Corporate Support
Quality

**Working pattern**:
Flexible working

**Number of posts**:
1

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Location

Brighton, South East (region), BN1 4DW

About the job

**Summary**:
About us

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.?

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.?

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

Role

We’re looking for a dynamic Quality Assurance Lead to support the varied and exciting projects / programmes within TPR’s portfolio. The current portfolio includes an interesting suite of projects and programmes including: legislative projects, a new people and culture programme as well as improvements to our existing IT estate.

This is an exciting time to be joining TPR with the establishment of the new Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) department. Part of the role will be understanding how the Change Directorate will provide assurance for the new DDaT function, specifically digital delivery.

**Job description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- *Driving quality of project delivery by ensuring adherence to the project / programme governance framework
- *Overseeing the gate process as projects / programmes move through the project / programme lifecycle
- *Ensuring quality control by facilitating project / programme health checks and readiness reviews
- *Overseeing the monthly Quality Assurance review process and escalating deviance from the controls as necessary
- *Constantly reviewing and improving the overarching project / programme governance based on feedback from key stakeholders
- *Producing relevant management information relating to the project / programme assurance process

**Responsibilities**:
Essential and Desirable Criteria

Essential
- *Knowledge of managing projects / programmes to the defined project / programme lifecycle
- *Experience of developing and the adoption of project / programme governance frameworks
- *Knowledge of project / programme delivery good practice
- *Experience of digital delivery and / or assurance of the Government Digital Service standards
- *Experience of managing stakeholders and the ability to speak with conviction and authority about project / programme delivery
- *Building relationships and influencing key members of project / programme teams including sponsor and Director level
- *Experience of project / programme reporting
- *Knowledge of business case production and adherence to the HM Treasury guidelines
- *The ability to produce concise and accurate management information

Desirable
- *Desirable - Experience of working in TPR across multiple Departments or Directorates
- *Desirable - Background and qualification in project / programme management e.g. PRINCE2, Agile etc. and PMO Management
- *Desirable - Awareness of the government project delivery functional standards

Person Specification
- *Can do approach
- *Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- *Negotiating skills
- *Problem solving and analytical skills
- *Communication skills at all levels
- *Attention to detail and accuracy

**Benefits**:
Salary and benefits

As well as a salary between £39,390 and £52,289, we offer:

- *Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- *discretionary bonus arrangements
- *access to performance related pay progression
- *25 days annual leave provision
- *flexible working arrangements
- *development opportunities
- *enhanced parental leave arrangements
- *a free employee assistance programme
- *an excellent office location in Brighton.

Things you need to know

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