Portfolio Management Office Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Role Purpose

The PMO Lead reports to the Programme Delivery Manager who is responsible for co-ordinating the Corporate Change governance, commissioning and implementation of all strategic projects, programmes, continuous and performance improvement initiatives across West Midlands Police to deliver the WMP's Strategy and Corporate Change Portfolio and the management of new opportunities and risks.

The PMO Lead role involves the Leadership and Accountability for the end-to-end Change Governance Framework to ensure the delivery of Corporate Change, including, the commissioning of initiatives, projects and improvement activity as well as overseeing the controlled delivery of the work through to initiative closure and subsequent assurance arrangements.

This role is accountable for setting Governance standards, process and policies for the delivery of all change and improvement activities within the Governance Framework including the Governance Board arrangements, templates, metrics and reporting needed to support successful delivery.

The role is responsible for ensuring there is a clear commissioning process in place and a pipeline of initiatives, projects or improvement proposals from initiation to mobilisation, working closely with senior business stakeholders to ensure all activity is necessary and sufficient to deliver the Force strategy.

The role is responsible for ensuring that all improvement proposals and business cases are robust and fully aligned to the Force strategy/Business plan, have effective business ownership, the objectives are deliverable and effective risk management and governance is in place to deliver the best possible outcomes.

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

The role will manage the Commissioning pipeline and manage resource demand through supply and demand analysis.

This involves the recruitment, assignment and deployment of the specialist capabilities and resources within the Corporate Change Team or procured from external agencies to individual activities, initiatives and projects.

The role holder will also lead, Line Manage, coach and develop the PMO team to achieve successful delivery of the Change Plan.

The post-holder will need to think pro-actively, creatively and systematically; they will be able to make evidence
- based judgements, but also be willing to take innovative approaches; they will combine energy and enthusiasm with the drive to see things through and have strong self-management and organisation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

The management of the endtoend Corporate Change Governance Framework, processes and reporting to ensure effective delivery of the Force's Strategy and associated Business plan. Managing and maintaining the Forces Change Plan and all associated dependencies.
Designing, implementing and continuously improving a clear Change Governance Framework informed by the Head of Corporate Change. To provide, comprehensive and effective governance of the Force Change Plan that is future proof, agile and minimises duplication.
Leads, owns and reviews all Change Governance and commissioning criteria, business processes, procedures and templates and develops and implements opportunities to improve the processes.
Ensure the Governance and Commissioning processes are well defined with clear roles and responsibilities which are understood by stakeholders, and is functioning efficiently and compliant.
Embed a governance culture that ensures the delivery of key objectives through robust risk management and compliance with relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Drives and Leads the Change Governance cycle in conjunction with the Head of Corporate Change including the scheduling, agenda setting and ensuring proportionate action management.
Maximise effective governance through training and development plans, team evaluation and ensuring the appropriate skills mix.
Advise the Corporate Change governance all Improvement Proposals under consideration.
Manage and be accountable for the commissioning process to ensure that it delivers robust improvement proposals and business cases which are aligned to the Force Strategy and complimentary Corporate Change Portfolio, including development, stakeholder review and all associated Governance bodies.
Manage the reporting of funding, financial tracking, organisational capacity, interdependencies, benefits realisation, resourcing, risk and issue management, cost and quality to deliver all initiatives within the Corporate Change Portfolio.
Responsible for ensuring there is a clear commissioning pipeline of initiatives, projects or improvement proposals from initiation to mobilisation working closely with the senior business stakeholders to ensure all activity is necessary and sufficient to deliver the Force strategy.
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