Planning Manager - London, United Kingdom - Service Care Solutions - Criminal Justice

Service Care Solutions - Criminal Justice
Service Care Solutions - Criminal Justice
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Role:
Planning Manager


Location:
Empress State Building / Hybrid


Pay:
£500+ DOE


Job Purpose

Working within the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), the purpose of this role is to ensure effective management of plans and schedules at project, programme and portfolio level.

This will include ensuring that portfolio and programme level interdependenciesare understood and managed within the plan.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Management:


  • Daytoday management of the national and London CT & PS portfolio plans, supporting the sequencing of key change programme and project activities and deliverables, and ensuring that all milestones and internal and external dependencies are identified, loggedand monitored.
  • Track key milestones and highlight dependencies in the change delivery portfolio, understand how these contribute to delivery of benefits and how any changes affect the risk profile. This will require close working with the Risks and Issues Manager and theBenefits Management Manager, and with the Reporting Manager to ensure that reports accurately reflect progress against the portfolio plan.

Centre of Excellence:


  • Develop, maintain and implement robust, effective and efficient planning approach and processes, and provide associated guidance and tools required, at portfolio, programme and project levels.
  • Provide planning tools and products for monitoring areas such as project milestones, overview plans and timelines, and be responsible for ensuring these are reviewed within programmes and projects and on a regular basis.
  • Ensure that consistent planning management standards and practices are adhered to across the CT & PS change portfolios at all levels, working with Project and Programme PMOs to achieve this.
  • Use experience and lessons learned to provide best practice guidance to support successful delivery of the projects and programmes within portfolio.

Essential Experience:


  • Experience of facilitating groups, balancing conflicting opinions, building consensus as necessary.
  • Experience of providing coaching and guidance to promote adherence to standards.

Desirables:


  • Experience of establishing and implementing planning processes within a large Programme or portfolio environment.
  • Experience of setting and delivering planning frameworks and dependency management processes within a large programme or portfolio environment.
  • Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing.

Qualifications

Essential:


  • Project Planning & Control: Practitioner and/or recognised industry equivalent qualification
  • MS Project and/or recognised industry equivalent qualification
  • PRINCE2 Foundation

Desirable:


  • P3O Certification (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices): Foundation
  • Management of Risk (M_O_R): Foundation
  • MSP Foundation

Vetting:


  • Minimum SC Clearance.
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