Senior Portfolio Assurance Manager recruitment
Requirements Technical: Strong Programme and Assurance Management skills combined with detailed understanding of required methodologies. Track record of the successful delivery of large, complex programmes (over £20m). Experience of conducting programme assurance reviews. • Conduct regular assurance reviews at key checkpoints in a project life cycle for those project s of high complexity and more than £20M in value
• Produce assurance recommendations and action plans following each review
• Maintain the Portfolio Assurance Framework to ensure the effective operation of Portfolio Assurance within the RBSI portfolio. This includes:
o governance
o templates, processes, checklists
o assessor role definitions
o database of trained assessors
o training materials/courses/user guides
• Produce and agree (with key stakeholders) a rolling assurance plan to ensure that critical projects are assessed at required intervals
• Identify and secure resources (potentially from various IT / Business areas) to undertake required specialist assurance activities
• Ensure that the appropriate stakeholders, project managers and assessors receive training on the assurance framework
• Where required, work with projects to agree recovery plans to return projects to delivery health
• Build strong and effective working relationships with change managers
• Create and maintain a facility where stakeholders, project managers and assessors can get up to date information on Portfolio Assurance, including access to the current toolkit, assurance plans and news.