Programme Management Office

**Details**: **Reference number**: - 415959 **Salary**: - £28,791 - £30,088 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP **Job grade**: - Executive Officer **Contract type**: - Fixed term Loan **Length of employment**: - 18 months **Business area**: - CO - Digital **Type of role**: - Digital **Working pattern**: - Full-time **Number of jobs available**: - 2 **Contents**: - Location - About the job - Benefits - Things you need to know **Location**: - however with regular travel to Bristol - we tend to do a delivery day weekly on Tuesdays **About the job**: **Job summary**: The Cabinet Office is the centre of government. Its purpose is to maintain the integrity of the Union, co-ordinate the security of the realm and sustain a flourishing democracy; to support the design and implementation of HM Government’s policies and the Prime Minister’s priorities; and to ensure the delivery of the finest public services by attracting and developing the best public servants and improving the efficiency of government. Cabinet Office Digital is the Digital and Data hub for the Cabinet Office. Our vision is to enable the department through the provision of exemplary Government Digital and Data services, supporting the digital transformation strategy of the organisation and the back-office for the whole of the civil service. We are creating a digital culture where user needs are at the heart of everything we build and through data democratisation, automation, governance, convergence and consolidation we will support creating a Better Cabinet Office of the future. We are transforming ourselves to be even more effective and efficient in the way we service our users' needs. This exciting transformation programme will shape the organisation, our ways of working, our engagement model and our "delivery engine" enabling CO Digital to become a product centric organisation; delivering through a highly matrixed portfolio of projects and programmes. Our role is also to provide system leadership across the central government, pulling together back-office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public. **Job description**: As a Programme Management Office (PMO) Support Officer for the programme, you will work closely with and support the Senior Programme Management Office (PMO) support officer, along with both the Head & Deputy Head of PMO and a range of other stakeholder roles including a complex supply chain, commercial and financial colleagues in other Cabinet Office functions. The role of the PMO Support Officer covers a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of the programme's objectives. The role enables the smooth running of the programme by supporting the operation of project management processes, and the coordination of business management actions and activities on their behalf. This role will give you a fantastic opportunity to work closely with a range of internal stakeholders at the heart of change, to learn how large and complex digital projects operate as well as develop a broad range of effective business skills and a variety of exemplar project management techniques Ensure organisational tasks are carried out efficiently. Support the Falcon Programme with administrative support and the updating of key artefacts (i.e., maintaining Risk Logs, Records of Actions & Decisions, Minutes, etc.) Planning, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of programme deliverables including asset management, the scheduling of training and attendance at device swap-out sessions. Assisting with training delivery by scheduling sessions, managing participant questions, and providing technical support during sessions. **Other duties** The post holder is required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the programme. **Person specification**: **Key skills and experience required for the role**: **Essential criteria** It’s essential that you have: - Working knowledge and experience of planning & scheduling with the ability to develop, produce and maintain schedules for activities that take account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of benefits. - Working knowledge of risk & issues and the ability to maintain risk registers. - Experience of analysing information; identifying patterns or themes and extracting the key data to provide valuable intelligence and insights for management. - Demonstrable experience of making effective decisions using data and/or insights as supporting evidence. **Desirable criteria** It is desirable that you have: - Experience of supporting progra