PMO Planning Support Officer

**PMO Planning Support Officer**

**Salary**:Band C** **£28,498 gross per annum _(A Specialist Allowance of up to £1,000 per annum is also available for this role)_
**Hours**:Full-Time _(We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)_
**Contract Type**: Open-Ended
**Location**:Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington

Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers, and business development team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether it’s sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society.

Come and discover how much you can achieve when you’re surrounded by world-leading experts, encouraged to constantly learn, and empowered to explore your curiosity.

**About Us**
The Hartree Centre is within the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and part of UK Research and Innovation. We are funded by UK Government to support businesses and the public sector on their digital journey, so we can grow the economy, create skilled jobs and keep the UK at the forefront of digital innovation.

We help organisations with an appetite for change, who are ready to innovate and create useful solutions to explore and adopt advanced digital technologies, including high performance computing (HPC), data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We are home to some of the most advanced computing, data and AI technologies in the UK and form an important part of the UK's research and innovation ecosystem alongside our global network of academic research communities and technology partners.

With the help of our experts and technologies, UK organisations can enhance products and processes more quickly than using conventional R&D methods, adopt new digital technologies, upskill their staff and expand into new markets.

**Reasons our staff enjoy working for us**:

- We’re based at Sci-Tech Daresbury - a lively and dynamic campus bringing together SMEs and leading industry-academic collaborations located in a picturesque, semi-rural location with easy access to canal-side and woodland walking.
- Additionally, we have staff based at our Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Harwell Campus) and our offices at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
- 30 days annual leave plus 10.5 public and privilege days.
- Options for flexible or hybrid working patterns are available.
- Excellent defined average salary pension.
- There are different active sport and social groups across the campuses with access to on-site gyms for staff
- Personal development is key. You will work with your line manager to develop your own Learning and Development plan each year.
- We value collaborative working across STFC and with our external collaborators such as IBM Research, The University of Liverpool’s Virtual Engineering Centre, Atos, NVIDIA, Unilever, the Met Office and many more.
- Diversity and inclusion are important to us. UKRI has a corporate policy on Equality and Diversity which is supported by a Diversity Forum and implementation group.

**About the Role**
This role will be positioned within the Hartree Centre Programme Management Office (PMO). The role holder will work closely with the PMO Budget and Planning Manager and other members of the PMO to ensure the seamless planning of staff and machine resources across the centre. The role will involve planning future resource allocations, understanding actual resource spend against forecast and identifying exceptions for further action. In addition, the role will support other key staff by establishing resource plans and reconciling differences between Programme Management Office (PMO) and Group Leader (GL) views.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Communicate regularly with a range of Group Leads and Project Managers to identify and address any issues relating to staff under or over allocation. Collaborate with key stakeholders to offer solutions to these issues in a timely manner.
- Work with PMO colleagues to produce a weekly “single source of truth” people-centric resourcing plan for all staff in the Hartree Centre to maintain an accurate understanding of current and planned work
- Provide training to new starters on how to fill in weekly timesheets.
- Work with staff who have missing time bookings and ensure completion so there is a full and accurate resource picture across the Centre.
- Produce a series of plan views tailored to the specific needs of the ADO, GLs and the PMO on a scheduled basis.
- Produce a weekly exception forecast highlighting projected over or under-allocation of staff effort.
- Produce a weekly utilisation forecast highlighting system usage and over or under-allocation of capacity.
- Work to find efficiencies and drive operational improvements in current processes.
- Maintain specific areas of the Hartree Centr