Plan Analyst recruitment
Role deliverables:
As a key part of the support team, the successful candidate will have responsibility for the following deliverables and activities:
• Maintain the overall programme plan
• Maintenance of the dependencies within the programme and the integrated plan
• Produce updates to the plan
• Track the status of lower level plans
• Regular aggregated highlight and status reports.
Experience required
• Created project and programme plans in collaboration with dept/functional managers and stakeholders
• Knowledge of project lifecycles (inc. deliverables) and their use in the creation and maintenance of project and programme plans
• Knowledge of system lifecycles (inc. deliverables) and their use in the creation and maintenance of project and programme plans
• Understanding of PMO functions – planning change management, reporting, governance, project control (i.e. project stage gates), risk/issue/dependency management and budget/resource management
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Qualification in Prince2, PMI, MSP (or other OGC/project management methodology) – advantageous but not essential
• Microsoft Visio skills, sufficient to represent product breakdowns
• Advanced user of Microsoft Project
• Expert user of the MS Office suite and Microsoft Excel in particular
• Experience of Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server (desirable).
Personal attributes required
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to work within a complex environment in which judgement, confidentiality and discretion have to be exercised
• A commitment to team working
• The ability to work effectively in an organisation that is rapidly changing
• A flexible and adaptable approach to work
• The ability to prioritise own workload and deliver against demanding deadlines
• Self-motivation, drive and determination to deliver results
• Intellectually rigorous approach to work.
Conclusion:
This is a highly demanding team and in addition to a competitive remuneration package the successful applicant would have the opportunity to work with, and learn from a friendly, supportive, experienced, qualified and extremely professional team. The business delivery team is known within NEST for the quality of its work and for being a friendly, dynamic, exciting and interesting place to work. Individuals with the necessary skills, team spirit, initiative and drive will thrive in this environment. There will be ample opportunity to learn new skills and to hone your existing ones. You will also gain a unique insight into the workings of Government including the passage of legislation, policy development and the wider Parliamentary process.