Project Management Office Lead - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Companies House

Companies House

Verified Company

Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Details:

Reference number:

Salary:

- £40,676 - £46,120

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Band E
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

Location

About the job

Benefits:

Things you need to know

Location

Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZAbout the job

Job summary:

Companies House is an executive agency of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) employing over 1,000 staff.

We maintain the public register of companies for the UK and provide corporate transparency, making the public register available online, free of charge, allowing individuals and businesses to make effective decisions about engaging with a company.

Currently there are more than four million companies on the register, and we incorporate around 700,000 new companies every year.

Our aim is to be the best registry in the world achieved through brilliant people working on brilliant systems delivering brilliant services.

We are currently delivering an organisation wide transformation programme to become a truly digital organisation; with all our systems and services to be digital first, easy to use and developed entirely around our users' needs.

This change will need different skills, capabilities and mindset where adaptable, bold and curious behaviours are the norm and empowerment is encouraged and utilised.

Our Project Management Office (PMO) Lead will play a critical part in delivering this transformation.

Companies House values its people, their contributions and has created a real sense of community where people seek to create strong connections.

Our commitment to learning and development is exceptional, and we believe passionately in the employee experience which is prevalent through the engagement, wellbeing and development strategies which have resulted in Platinum Investors in People and MIND index awards.

We encourage professional development, celebrate success and live our values to effect real change.

We are also an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you.

The role itself is situated within the Project Management Office (PMO) and within the wider Transformation Delivery Directorate.

The team reports directly to the Director of Transformation Delivery, and the role itself requires close working with a range of colleagues both from within and outside of the directorate.

This will involve providing assurance and scrutiny of project control documentation whilst simutanelously providing advice and guidance where required.

Job description:

Application of assurance standards
You'll be responsible for ensuring projects or activities have appropriate levels of assurance for the complexity of the project. You'll be following established guidance on types of assurance activities and recording them in control documentation as required.

Areas for assurance evaluation

You'll be responsible for evaluating assurance alignment with the business cases; management processes; overall progress towards output in terms of time, cost and quality; stakeholder relationships and perceptions; final outcomes and lessons learned; and supporting the Benefits Manager in the assurance of project benefits and realisation.

Planning

You'll be responsible for leading a number of assurance activities across several projects such as the review of all 5 cases (strategic, economic, commercial, financial and management) cases within business cases at a local level.

You'll provide guidance and support integrated assurance planning across all projects.

As PMO Lead, you'll work with Project Managers, SROs, case keyholders and Portfolio to ensure planning principles are adopted as part of baselining and forecasting future activities, working closely with the Portfolio Planner to achieve this.

Business case support

You'll be responsible for providing guidance and advice to project teams on the requirements and development of business cases, using Companies House and HMT 5 case model.

Project and business case governance

You'll be responsible for supporting Project Managers and SROs in mapping the required governance route for their project(s) and ensure key milestones are captured and baselined.

Stakeholder management

You'll be responsible for ensuring sufficient stakeholder engagement has taken place at a project level, providing advice to Project Managers on who they should be engaging with throughout the lifecycle of their project(s).

Reporting
You'll be responsible for leading the assurance of timely and accurate project level status reporting, providing both quantitative and qualitative assurance along