Head of Portfolio Delivery Assurance - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Position Details
IT Services, Portfolio and Project Management

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £56,021 to £64,914 with potential progression once in post to £84,644

Grade 9

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 20th May 2024

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Role Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a leader to be involved in some of the key Digital initiatives that will transform our staff and student experience and contribute to the delivery of our University strategy.

The Head of Portfolio Delivery Assurance role is responsible for:

Contributing to the development and implementation of the IT Services strategic plans, and developing and putting forward proposals for approval by University Governance Committees.
Leading the delivery of projects undertaken by IT Services to deliver new University services to meet mission critical objectives in the University and IT Strategic plans.
Leading the development and delivery of portfolio, project and demand management methods for all IT Services.
Leading the IT Services Finance and Procurement function and also promoting Product Management and leading the central pool of Scrum Master resource.
Making a significant contribution to the development of portfolio, project, and demand management methodologies across Professional Services and providing comprehensive advice and cascading expertise.
Together with ITLT, designing and managing delivery governance and reporting that will be consumed by ITLT and the University's senior stakeholders, including KPIs.

The post holder will need to possess high levels of knowledge and experience of delivery, portfolio and project management to enable them to work at strategic level within IT Services and the wider Professional Services.

The Head of Portfolio Delivery Assurance is part of the IT Leadership team and is the leader of the Portfolio, Project and Demand Management, the Scrum Master function, and the Finance function within IT Services.

IT Services is one of the largest administrative budget centres, employing over 200 people and with an investment of over £90m in digital strategy over a 5-year period.

The service brings together professional and non-professional staff from a variety of specialist backgrounds, and has a very wide remit covering infrastructure, student systems, research support, and corporate business administrative systems.

All new initiatives in IT Services are managed within the Portfolio framework and at any one time there can be more than 100 change initiatives in progress, delivering new university services or significant upgrades to live services.

These initiatives deliver new services to meet objectives in the University's strategic plans and Digital Strategy. This translates to a substantial financial and staff investment and repr