Responsibilities:

• Ensure projects deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Track delivery within budget as necessary, and recommend how financial and other resources should be allocated between projects to best support strategic objectives.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues, and develop mitigating actions and raise as appropriate.
• Set project controls, select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies, and support the agreed assurance requirements through project delivery.
• Partner engagement and partnership working – identify key partners and develop effective relationships to influence, change, and impact decisions.
• Monitoring delivery against the approved business case, in order to justify the continuation of projects in terms of benefits, value for money and risk.
• Contribute to the development and promotion of the Programme Management Office (PMO), including supporting and advocating the use of PMO standardised processes and documentation.
• Operate effectively within a matrix management environment on one or more assignments with the flexibility and resilience to respond to the changing demands of a fast-paced environment.
• Attention to detail in the creation and maintenance of a range of control documentation including but not limited to; business case, programme plan, risks, issues and actions logs/registers, monitoring and evaluation, and budget management.
• Collation of documents and co-ordination of audit and assurance activities, including formal project gateway reviews, audits, and deep dives.
• Actively contribute to the PMO supporting the development of templates, guidance notes and documentation for a range of programme management tools and techniques.
• Represent the programme for queries relating to PMO administration and the use of templates.
• The project manager will also prepare and present updates to relevant groups within the established governance structure.

 

This is not a comprehensive list, and we may require you to undertake other duties within the Strategic Hub commensurate with the level of responsibility of this post.

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

Essential

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field, or experience of working in a sophisticated programme/project environment (S&I).
• Qualification in a recognised project/programme management methodology, (e.g. PRINCE 2, MSP, AGILE, etc.) (S&I).
• Able to evidence a strong understanding of project methodologies and lifecycles, including good working knowledge of project management software and tools (S&I).
• Able to evidence how to manage, plan, supervise and coordinate multiple projects or change activities independently and use initiative (S&I).
• An awareness of risk, issue and change management processes within project environments, along with business case, commercial and procurement awareness (S&I).
• Excellent written communications skills, including minuting meetings to a high level and control documentation (S&I).
• Knowledge and understanding of corporate governance systems and processes (S&I).
• Experience of providing corporate governance support to Boards and/or Committees (S&I).
• Experience engaging with multi-level partners, both internally and externally to ensure project delivery (S&I).

 

Desirable

• An understanding of the processes through which ESRC funded researchers currently access data for research purposes (I).
• Experience of working with relevant policy, government, or other partners in the research data landscape (I).
• Experience of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) Gateway Review and Health check process (I).

Alongside your salary of £37,841, UK Research and Innovation contributes £10,962 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees’ development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme.
• 30 days’ annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent).
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities.
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice.
• Flexible working options.

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

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