Project Management Office Lead X3

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

- 215966**Salary**:

- £33,883 - £44,979- Salary between £33,883 and £44,979 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package.**Grade**:

- Other- R&O 9 - Lead Associate**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- TPR - Finance and Operations**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of posts**:

- 3Contents
- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

Location
- Brighton, South East England, BN1 4DWAbout 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 are looking for three dynamic Project Management Office Leads to support the varied and exciting projects / programmes within TPR’s portfolio. The current portfolio includes an interesting selection of projects and programmes such as: 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 as the central Portfolio Management Office continues to expand and evolve. If you want to make a difference to protecting saver’s pensions and are interested in a new and exciting career, then this role is for you.**Job description**:

- Accountable for the successful operation of the PMO function within the relevant project / programme, including:

- Pro-actively support the programme and project managers to develop and update project plans
- Lead all programme Governance and when required act as secretariat for key programme and project meetings
- Maintain key project assets as directed by the Programme / Project Manager
- Driving proactive RAIDD activity to ensure timely and effective mitigation action
- To ensure that there are clear and agreed resource plans for the project portfolio, highlighting any potential issues with mitigating actions
- Active tracking of Programme Finances in line with the delivery plan and resource changes**Responsibilities**:

- Essential and Desirable Criteria
- Essential- PMO experience of supporting change within a large or complex business including systems development
- Knowledge and experience of resourcing and budgets
- Knowledge and experience of project planning and reporting
- Knowledge and experience of maintaining RAIDD Logs
- Building relationships and influencing key members of project / programme teams including sponsor and Director level

Desirable- To extract and collate key project / programme information from relevant personnel e.g. project Managers, Business Analysts etc.
- Experience of managing external stakeholders, such as suppliers and holding them to account on contractual obligations (Stakeholder Relationship Management)
- Background or qualification in project / programme management e.g. PRINCE2, Agile etc. and PMO Management

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**:

- As well as a salary between £33,883 and £44,979, 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

**Security**:- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- How to apply
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements?
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