Portfolio Planner

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

- 229460**Salary**:

- £39,816 - £45,411- The salary scale for this grade is £39,816 to £45,411. If successful, your salary will be negotiated with you following which further increases will depend upon the outcome of our annual pay negotiation.**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Band E**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Our fixed term role is for 2 years with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 8BG : Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ : Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9FFAbout the job

**Summary**:

- Companies House is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) employing around 1,300 staff. We maintain the public register of companies for the UK and provide corporate transparency, making the public register available online, free of charge, allowing individuals and businesses to make effective decisions about engaging with a company. Currently there are more than five million companies on the register, and we incorporate around 700,000 new companies every year.
- Our aim is to be the best registry in the world achieved through brilliant people working on brilliant systems delivering brilliant services. We are currently delivering an organisation wide transformation programme to become a truly digital organisation; with all our systems and services to be digital first, easy to use and developed entirely around our users’ needs. This change will need different skills, capabilities and mindset where adaptable, bold and curious behaviours are the norm and empowerment is encouraged and utilised. This role will play a critical part in delivering this transformation.
- Companies House values its people, their contributions and has created a real sense of community where people seek to create strong connections. Our commitment to learning and development is exceptional, and we believe passionately in the employee experience which is prevalent through the engagement, wellbeing and development strategies which have resulted in Platinum Investors in People and MIND index awards.
- Based in the Project Centre, the Portfolio Planner reports to the Portfolio Manager, working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, to lead on planning activity to ensure that approved and expected intiatives are captured and scheduled within the Portfolio Delivery Plan. They will ensure clear understanding of what is in the plan, the required dependencies and interlinkages across the Portfolio, and engage with colleagues to ensure clear understanding and one version of the truth.-
**Job description**:
Our Portfolio Planner will have the opportunity to undertake:
**Planning and Scheduling**
- Developing and maintaining the Portfolio Delivery schedule using Microsoft Project. This will involve working with other functions to gather, interpret and verify planning data.
- Maintaining planning risks.
- Recognising, recording and tracking key portfolio dependencies.
- Maintaining correct linkages between project objectives and strategic objectives, including contributions to targets.
- Defining and building appropriate systems to enable effective planning and scheduling at a portfolio level.
- Providing Subject Matter Expert (SME) support in scheduling to our Project Management Officer (PMO) and Project Managers.

**Portfolio Performance and Controls**
- Monitoring and controlling the baseline of key milestones.
- Escalation of milestone changes to the Portfolio Manager and Head of Portfolio Delivery.
- Working with the Head of Portfolio Delivery and Portfolio Manager to provide accurate and timely data required to maintain the High-Level Portfolio Delivery Plan.
- Provision of reporting, including milestone look ahead and other reports as required.

**Stakeholder engagement**
- Managing and engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

**Resources**
- Identifying high level portfolio project management resource requirements.

**Management of risks and issues**
- Assisting with and maintaining risk and issue logs, escalating as appropriate.

**Responsibilities**:
- Extensive understanding of project management and delivery methodologies
- Excellent organisational skills
- An ability to prioritise work to meet targets and deadlines
- The ability to work unsupervised and take initiative
- Proven track record of delivery and working with stakeholders at all levels.

**We're also looking for experience of**:

- Extensive experience of planning and scheduling - this should be at programme or portfolio level, project level planning is not sufficient for this role.
- Experience of working in a portfolio and programme environment.

**About us**
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