Programme Management Office Executive Officer

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

- 341638**Salary**:

- £27,470 - £28,606- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- RPA - Business Transformation - Livestock Information Transformation Programme (LITP)**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bridgwater, Bristol, Cambridge, Carlisle, Crewe, Exeter, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Reading, Worcester, Workington, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you looking to develop your skills in both project support and stakeholder engagement?

Are you a pro-active person with a passion for helping others and the environment?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for confident communicators to join the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), to help provide an excellent service for our customers.

RPA plays an important role in supporting our food and farming industry, and helping rural communities create a better place to live.

Successful applicants will be committed to providing high quality support for project delivery, and feel comfortable working in a fast-paced, flexible environment.

**Job description**:
This post is for an Executive Officer within the Programme Management Office (PMO). Undertaking a diverse range of business support functions to support the delivery of the programmes various projects.

**Description of Role**:

- Support a variety of activities relating to the successful delivery of ongoing projects within the programme.
- Use Microsoft documents to track, maintain and monitor sensitive data around recruitment, training, capability, risks and governance forums.
- Ensure projects develop and maintain appropriate project documentation e.g., Business Cases, Project Plans, Risks and Issues Logs, Lessons Learned reports.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with programme and project managers, as well as internal and external stakeholders.
- Take a proactive approach in your own learning and development along the Project Portfolio Management profession career path.
- Be able to challenge current ways of working and suggest change and improvements on PMO processes throughout the lifecycle of the project.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Skills and Experience for this role**:

- Be able to organise your workload, prioritise actions and divide your time effectively, in a fast-paced environment.
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to deliver messages effectively so that they land positively with colleagues.
- Ability to listen actively and respond to feedback.
- Can work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Be flexible with a can-do attitude to take on ad-hoc task to meet the team's needs.
- Be confident in using Microsoft Office software products specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams and Outlook.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £27,470, Rural Payments Agency contributes £7,417 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**Application Process**

The CV and Personal Statement will be scored as one.

**Sift**

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

**Interview**

Interviews will be held virtually via MS Teams.

**Location**

Where the location is 'National' the successful appointee should discuss and agree an appropriate contractual location in line with both Defra’s location policy and site capacity, prior to proceeding with pre-employment processes.

Successful applicants currently employed by the hiring Defra organisation for this post may choose to remain in their current contractual location or may choose to change contractual location to one of those listed above. This should be discussed and agreed prior to proceeding with pre-employment processes.

The agreed amount of time spent at a workplace for this post will reflect the requirement for Civil Servants to spend at least 60% of their working time in an organisation workplace with the option to work the remaining time flexibly from home. Working time spent at a workplace may include