Project Management Office Lead - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council

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Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job reference

002344

Date posted

23/08/2023

Application closing date

12/09/2023

Location

Oxford - Town Hall/Work from home (Hybrid)

Salary

Grade 10:
£53,104 - £55,076 per annum (pro rata for part time)

Package

We offer generous holiday 28 days a year with an additional 4 days after 5 years' service We are committed to supporting career development opportunities and learning and development An above average pension offering Plus other great benefits

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full Time

Job category/type

Fixed term

Job description

This is an exciting role to facilitate the successful delivery of capital projects making a positive difference for residents and businesses across the City.

This role is focused on ensuring the successful monitoring and delivery of the Council's capital programme.

This includes working with and providing reporting to the Council's senior Management Team and supporting Project Teams to successfully take projects from conception to delivery, ensuring effective governance is deployed across the capital programme.

As well as enabling project managers to be successful, the purpose of the role is to implement a new, co-ordinated approach to support the delivery of major programmes of work across the Council, including those being delivered by our trading companies.

Key elements of the role include:

Supporting the development and delivery of the capital programme which includes large scale major development projects
Effectively communicating to bring people with you to meet reporting and governance requirements, including senior managers, partners and stakeholders
Be outcome focused and driven to accelerate the successful delivery of projects
Ensure project funding decisions are captured and reflected in project budgets
Collaboration across multiple disciplines to test, tweak and embed new ways of working that deliver projects within budget, on time and meeting clearly defined outcomes
Actively coach, provide training and support people across the organisation to effective governance and processes are followed
Identify areas of improvement to continually enhance the Project Management Office to support project managers across the organisation.