Governance & Stakeholder Lead (X1) and Benefits &

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

- 237295**Salary**:

- £40,000- Per Annum, pro-rata if part time**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- C1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

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Location
- PortsmouthAbout the job

**Summary**:
**Project Delivery Professionals** - You don’t need experience in Defence to help us protect the nation. Everything the UK’s armed forces do is enabled by teams of Project Delivery Professionals, taking care of every detail. They bring different experience from different backgrounds to one shared mission - to help protect, defend and support everyday life across the UK and beyond. Wherever you’ve gained your project delivery skills and expertise, you can make it your mission too. You’ll be part of a diverse community of professionals, collaborating with other government departments to deliver projects of extraordinary variety. From every item of basic equipment, to living quarters, training facilities and systems upgrades, to the most complex, cutting-edge technology imaginable, each new project brings unique possibilities and challenges. And we’ll ensure you’re equipped to rise to every new challenge, with a range of training and development opportunities

Navy Command Headquarters (NCHQ) is the nerve centre of the Royal Navy. It supports operations around the globe and provides the ships, people, aircraft and equipment to deliver the UK’s defence policy. Civil Servants and Armed Forces personnel work together in a wealth of interesting and challenging jobs in different disciplines.

The postholder will be part of the Project Delivery Performance team - one of three teams within the newly formed Performance Group. The Performance Group plays a crucial role at the centre of Navy Command with the mission to drive and cohere delivery effort in alignment with organisational priorities. Our key objectives are to: provide business intelligence to senior leaders, manage the Portfolio of Navy’s major projects and programmes; co-ordinate transformation activities; deploy project delivery specialists to priority areas; and champion the Project Delivery Profession within Navy. The Project Delivery Performance Team is responsible for deploying Project Delivery resource into programmes within the Navy Major Projects Portfolio; workforce planning across the Performance Group and wider command for Project Delivery and acting as the champion for Project Delivery within Navy.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
These roles are for leads within a Project Delivery Team in Governance & Stakeholders (x1), Benefits & Dependencies (x1) and Scheduling (x1).

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking for individuals who are self-starters and can deliver their objectives to a high standard, are passionate about project delivery and enjoy a fast-paced working environment. A good team-working ethos is also key.

The roles will have specific responsibilities for elements of the following:

- Establish and manage programme data on Microsoft Project Online, the Navy Command on-line Portfolio management tool.
- Deliver a consistent approach to drive both the effectiveness and improvements on delivery outputs. Raising the overall standards, including sharing standard methodology.
- Provide Project Managers with situational awareness of current performance and any future issues that will prevent programme progress.
- Supporting the Community of Interest events as an SME and provide advice/support for other project teams, championing the project delivery profession more broadly within Navy Command.

Additional role specific Terms of Reference are available through the recruiting line manager.

Our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities the Royal Navy deliver. Roles can offer superb job happiness and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

**Qualifications**:

- Experience:

- Essential- Application of Governance & Stakeholder management development, processes and methodology (Governance & SH Lead)
- Application of Scheduling utilising MS Project and milestone identification, mapping and tracking (Scheduling Lead)
- Application of Benefits and Dependencies identification, mapping and management development, process, and methodology (Benefits and Dependencies Lead)
- All posts - Managing relationships with stakeholders effectively, maintaining their confidence and influencing them.

Technical:

- Essential- A minimum of one project delivery formal qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience, is required for this role.
- Examples of acceptabl