Senior Portfolio Management Office Advisor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police
West Midlands Police
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Role Purpose


The Senior Programme Management Office (PMO) Advisor role will act as the Deputy to the PMO Lead to ensure and enable the delivery of WMP's Change Plan by taking a lead role in management of the Corporate Change Governance and Commissioning Frameworks to ensure full transparency, effective control and optimise delivery in support of the Force Strategy and Business Plan.


The role is responsible for ensuring the reporting Framework is functional, all packs created are compliant with the reporting standards and that packs, actions and risk and issue escalation process are robust and coherent.

The role will also be responsible for ensuring any emerging risks from the change and improvement initiatives have been effectively fed through governance channels and in to the Force Risk Manager if required.


The role is responsible for supporting the identification, management and reporting of benefits both within the Change Portfolio and wider organisational activity to support the strategic objectives of WMP.


The Senior PMO Advisor will manage defined areas of the corporate change framework, and work collaboratively across the organisation to plan and pro-actively support change governance, commissioning and delivery activity.

They will support the corporate change team and wider business to maintain a strong focus on business outcomes and benefits, and will communicate a clear direction to senior managers, colleagues and partners.


The role is also responsible for providing consultancy support to the wider organisation in terms of reporting, commissioning & governance and the identification of benefits as well as escalation of risks and issues.


The role is also responsible for ensuring the central management and co-ordination of Lessons Learnt across all change and improvement initiatives to ensure all lessons are captured and where appropriate, fed into Organisational Learning.


The role will support the recruitment, assignment and deployment of the specialist capabilities and resources within the Corporate Change Team to individual activities, initiatives and projects, including the use of external consultants.


The role will also carry out the activities of a Senior PMO Advisor as deemed appropriate by the PMO lead.


Key Responsibilites:


  • Acts as second in Command to the PMO Lead and Deputises for this role.
  • Sets the Reporting Standards for Change Governance Framework and Governance Boards.
  • Oversees the delivery of Reporting Framework, ensuring the reporting Framework is functional, all packs created are compliant with the reporting standards and that packs, actions and risk and issue escalation process are robust and coherent.
  • Ensures all relevant risks and issues from the change portfolio have been effectively escalated to the Change SLT and Force Risk Manager, as required
  • Taking a lead role in the management of Corporate Change Force Wide Governance, and Commissioning Frameworks to ensure full transparency, effective control and optimise delivery of the Force Strategy and Corporate Change Portfolio.
  • Managing the recruitment processes for the Corporate Change function
  • Providing consultancy support to the wider organisation in terms of reporting, commissioning & governance and the identification of benefits as well as the escalation of risks and issues.
  • The central management and coordination of Lessons Learnt across all change, CI and improvement initiatives to ensure all lessons are captured and where appropriate, fed into Organisational Learning.
  • Line management of supporting roles where applicable
  • Support the assignment and deployment of the specialist capabilities and resources within the Corporate Change Team to individual activities, initiatives and projects, including any external consultants.
  • Support the management of the endtoend Change Governance Framework, processes and reporting including agenda setting and action management.
  • Drives the Quality assurance and acts as an authority on best practice standards and procedures.
  • Build and maintain excellent relationships with key stakeholders and work collaboratively with colleagues to support the delivery of the Corporate Change Portfolio.
  • Supports the scheduling of Corporate Change Governance Boards with Force Executive Team and Bodies.
  • Analyses and interprets the status and performance of the Corporate Change Portfolio to agreed timescales; providing recommendations on trends, major risks and critical issues to support management decisions
  • Support the Commissioning and Triage process to feed into the Governance Framework, including the Innovation Portal and Commissioning timeline.
  • Support the development of Business Cases and improvement proposals.
  • Support the development and management of a clear commissioning pipeline to ensure initiatives, projects or improvement proposals are progressed in line with the Corporate Change Portfolio defined by the Force's strategy.
  • Manage and maintain
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