Project Management Office Lead

Our client has an exciting opportunity to join their team as a **Project Management Office Lead**. You will join on a **full-time, permanent basis**, and will be based in **Canterbury.** In return, you will receive a competitive salary of **circa £55,000 per annum.**

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust,our client prides itself on the delivery of high-quality Facilities, Property and Estates, Procurement, Equipment Management,and Professional Services.

The company put customer service and quality at the heart of everything they do across all of their areas of expertise, from Cleaning and Catering to Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Encompassing five Hospitals across East Kent, (William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Buckland Hospital in Dover, Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone; and Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury), ourclient are working hard to become an employer of choice by improving pay, and providing opportunities for learning and development in the workplace for all of their employees.

**About the role**:
The **Project Management Office Lead **will be responsible for providing assurance around delivery of performance metrics across all aspects of the companys Portfolio with particular focus on Cost, Quality, Time and Risk. This role will alsolead on implementing processes and governance to align with the end to end planning and delivery of projects and programmes, from initial feasibility through to design, financial approval, delivery and completion.

**Why work for the company?**
- 25 days annual leave allowance
- The opportunity to buy or sell up to 10 days annual leave each year
- Company Pension
- Training and development opportunities including BICS and functional skills training
- Career progression
- Discount in selected high street retailers
- Onsite childcare facilities at their three acute sites
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured

**Your responsibilities as the Project Management Office Lead will include**:

- Managing the Project Management Offices resources ensuring that projects/programmes are appropriately resourced
- Developing and ensuring the successful implementation of the PMO’s strategy
- Ensuring the organisation is focussing on projects that align to business strategy
- Challenging project managers to ensure reports are accurate
- Assisting programme/project managers with planning
- Ensuring the effective implementation of the change control process
- Assisting in creation of Project Initiation Documentation (PID) for each project/programme
- Creating a project/programme reporting structure from project up to board level
- Embedding project/programme governance into the organisation
- Ensuring Lessons Learned are captured and utilised on future projects/programmes
- Enabling departments through training and assistance to deliver their own small projects
- Overseeing and coordinating the delivery of successful projects, products and other strategic initiatives, and overseeing the implementation of appropriate governance for each programme/project
- Making recommendations to the Senior Leadership Team for project/programme prioritisation
- Ensuring projects are delivered within agreed budgets,
- Autonomously managing intricacies in programmes ensuring dependencies are realised
- Delivering projects/programmes across at organisational level with multiple senior stakeholders
- Working autonomously to ensure prioritisation is effectively implemented and make recommendations to board level
- Owning a project budget of approximately £500,000, this will need to be defined by the PMO Lead upon scoping

**What our client are looking for in their ideal Project Management Office Lead**:

- A certificate in either Prince2, Agile, MSP, PMP
- Degree Educated and/or 5 year’s experience in project management
- Experience in both waterfall and agile project delivery
- 5+ years in project management
- Experience of working on organisational change projects

If you feel you have the skills and experience to join our client as their **Project Management Office Lead**, click “**apply**” now - we’d love to hear from you