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- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
- Developing and ongoing ownership of the IT Portfolio for Technology Services. Managing in line with best practice, including portfolio prioritisation, planning and project management, benefits realisation, portfolio risk and dependency management.
- Implementing and championing standards and best practice for project delivery across Technology Services, ensuring that all IT projects adhere correctly.
- Communicating the current state of the IT Portfolio, celebrating successes, and escalating when necessary to ensure smooth and continuous delivery.
- Engaging and collaborating with the central NCI PMO, and other portfolio and change functions across the NCI's to ensure successful design and delivery of the IT Portfolio,
- Creating and feeding into Business Cases, Board Reports and other key Portfolio artefacts and presenting them as appropriate.
- Managing certain projects or programmes, where appropriate, given their nature or scale.
- Managing and motivating a small team of focussed change agents, currently including a Project Manager, a Business Analyst, and a Modern Workplace technical specialist, in line with the standards for line management within the NCI's.
- Managing and motivating project team members who could report to other parts of Technology Services, or other NCI's as appropriate.
- Engaging in overall Technology Services Leadership. Participating in Leadership ceremonies and activities, feeling comfortable to backup peers in other teams within Technology services, and standing in for the Director of Technology as required.
- Managing and guiding the estate of Software
Head of IT Portfolio - Clopton, United Kingdom - The Church of England
Description
The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.We Include. You Belong. Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background. Living out our values in all that we do, we:
About the Department Technology Services is a core, exciting and enjoyable department within the National Church Institutions (NCI's). Supporting over 900 people, we are focussed on ensuring all our colleagues work in a modern, inclusive, and secure environment, today and to provide even greater services in the future.
This is a great time to join Technology Services as we look to enhance and grow the services we offer as well as our team members, our tools, and the way we work. We are actively seeking new colleagues who, along with experience, will bring fresh ideas and new, unique perspectives to our team.
What you'll be doing Within Technology Services, we recognise that it is our people who are our greatest asset in delivering the best-in-class service we continuously aim for. The purpose of this role is to craft, manage and deliver our overall IT Portfolio. In this role, managing a small team of change focussed colleagues, as well as third-party partners and suppliers, you will focus on the change aspects of IT. You will support the lifecycle of the portfolio, setting and leading standards, identifying opportunities to improve, and measuring and celebrating success.
You should feel comfortable communicating and working alongside all levels of people throughout the National Church Institutions (NCI's), in particular, senior leaders and stakeholders. This will include regular written communications, face to face and hybrid meetings and presentations.
Main duties and responsibilities
Portfolio Leadership