PMO recruitment

Main duties and responsibilities

   

Generic responsibilities

•As primary owner of the Benefits Management, Project Prioritisation and Change Management processes, this role is required to establish relationships with all Project Managers and Resource owners within our client.

•Actively manage and escalate issues which arise during the management of the following processes.

•Maintain an objective view of our client’s delivery programme to make sure that all Pegasus controls and processes are adhered to, whilst ensuring that the perception of the PMO is one of a collaborative and positive team

•Effectively apply, support and champion our clients Pegasus Governance methodology and enforce project standards

•Proactively improve and enhance PMO and Pegasus processes ensuring that best-practise is adopted at all times.

•From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports

•Facilitate Business Benefit Workshops with key Vendor Stakeholders to ensure that all project benefits are identified, prioritised and communicated.

Project Prioritisation

•Accountable for interpreting the organisational strategy goals into a clear set of targets

•Responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of all projects against the set targets

•Ensures alignment of the benefits for each project, creating weightings for these and using as a basis for prioritisation

•Ensures alignment of projects to our clients 2.0 Strategic Objectives, creating weightings for these and using as a basis for prioritisation

•Provide regular reports to our clients Head of Strategy.

Benefits Realisation

•Ensures that all project benefits have clear metrics assigned and an owner to deliver each benefit

•Responsible for tracking and analysing the benefits through the projects delivery

•Responsible for reporting on all aspects of the benefits realisation plan across all projects within the change programme

Change Management

•Responsible for the creation, maintenance and publication of our clients Change Register

•Responsible for the dissemination of change requests and submittals to the Change Advisory Board

•Accountable for capturing and analysing the implications of all changes to projects that affect, time, cost, benefits, scope, quality, and risk

•Obtain and communicate decisions from the appropriate authorising authority on how to proceed with proposed changes

        

Person specification

Qualifications ( Gained at School or High School / College or University), professional or specialist qualification)

EssentialDesirable

Educated to A’Level standard or equivalent experience

X

 

Experience required (Sector knowledge, specific work/projects, product knowledge)

Experience of working within a PMO or programme/project governance environment

X

 

Strong working familiarity with project management methodologies and systems, with specific emphasis on resourcing and dependency management

X

 

Experience using the Cranfield process model of benefits management.

X

 

Strong experienced in the use of MS Project and planning tools

X

 

Experience of working with change management methodologies

X

 

Strong communication skills – both written and verbal

X

 

Experience of working within a team, and leveraging the skills of others to achieve results

X

 

Ability to work without close supervision

X

 

Person Profile

Person profile

Key performance measures

Managing relationships

Able to effectively manage internal and external relationships to ensure project governance is followed within their specific area of specialism (change management, dependency management and resource management)

Managing people

Able to positively matrix manage the deliverables of others in an advisory capacity, within escalation and exception controls – proactively selling the benefits of adherence to the relevant processes ahead of “off track” exception reporting

Managing risk

Able to identify project, change and resourcing risks and highlight these to the Associate Director/appropriate escalation level within the PMO

Managing change

Demonstrates comfort with changing prioritise and shifts in operational and company strategic direction, with the ability to positively support colleagues through periods of change

Financial responsibility

Demonstrates awareness of the importance of financial reporting and monitoring within the scope of their accountabilities for project governance

Decision making

Able to make informed recommendations to management on all relevant project governance, change, resourcing and dependency management

Technical expertise

Demonstrates use of technical knowledge to provide subject matter expertise within their specific area of project governance

Mandatory Training

Role specific i.e. Anti Money Laundering OFAC

Business Continuity Representative/Awareness

Health and Safety – Work Station Assessment

Pegasus Project Governance Framework