Army - Project, Programme, Portfolio Delivery Roles

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

- 249275**Salary**:

- £33,000**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- C2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Army**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery
- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 9Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Andover, South East England, SP11 8HTAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Grow your expertise across an outstanding range of projects. Our work is anything but uniform.
- Why join the MOD Project Delivery Professional Community?
- Everything the UK’s armed forces do is enabled by teams of Project Delivery Professionals, taking care of every detail. They bring different skills and experience from different backgrounds, to one shared mission - to help protect, defend and support everyday life across the UK and beyond. From every item of basic equipment to the most sophisticated ground-breaking technology imaginable, every new project brings outstanding possibilities and challenges. And we’ll ensure you’re equipped to succeed, with a range of training and development opportunities.
- The Army has 9 exciting Civil Service opportunities as part of the wider Government Project Delivery Profession. Project Delivery is the UK Government’s function for project, programme and portfolio management (P3M). However as part of the evolving Army programmes there are going to be more exciting opportunities within the coming weeks.
- We are looking for hardworking and motivated Project Delivery professionals to join us and lead the delivery of several strategic programmes in the Army's Portfolio. These programmes deliver change in equipment, infrastructure, personnel, information and business change. These roles offer the opportunity to develop Programme and Project Management skills, knowledge and expertise in a challenging yet encouraging environment.
- The Army intends to manage Project Delivery skilled staff on a flexible basis to ensure that programmes have the talent required to deliver outputs and improve opportunities in support of skills development and wider career pathways. Successful applicants may therefore be redeployed flexibly within the portfolio as priorities change and programmes start and stop.
- This position is advertised at 37 hours per week**Job description**:

- The role will undertake Programme/Project Management duties within the Army's Portfolio. As a key delivery resource within your respective area, you will be encouraged to provide advice and guidance across a range of Project Delivery areas.
- The roles available will involve enabling the delivery elements of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Support but may also include the following:

- Planning and Scheduling:

- Ensure systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling using Microsoft Project Online, in accordance with professional standards.
- Monitoring & Reporting:

- Manage project/programme controls, reporting to Project/ Programme Managers and Senior Responsible Owners about project/programme status. Develop programme performance Reports.
- Resources:

- Lead on identifying, developing and acquiring resources. Manage workforce planning, providing information for effective decision making to Project/Programme Managers.
- Stakeholder Engagement:

- Lead and engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Risks and Issues:

- Identifying, monitoring and managing of risks and issues and developing mitigation strategies. Identifying and working with related workstreams to manage dependencies.- Project delivery at the Army generally involve the management and coordination of projects and programmes with a large number of activities completed offsite by the Defence Enabling Organisations.**Person specification**:

- 1. Ability to establish protocols to manage, record and evaluate requests that could alter the scope of a project.
- 2. Knowledge of how to identify, share and promote best practices and lessons learned to build a culture of learning that supports team capability & continuous improvement to optimise project delivery.
- 3. Familiarity in developing relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation. Using appropriate channels of communication & adapting styles to ensure stakeholders & team members are engaged.
- 4. Ability to identify and monitor risks, planning how to mitigate/respond to them and implementing appropriate responses.
- 5. Experience of defining the fundamental components of a project/programme in terms of its scope, deliverables, time scales, resource requirements and budget. In addition, the proven ability to develop, produce and maintain schedules and take account of the dependencies, requirements and constraints at each stage of the project lifecycle.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection pro