PMO Manager

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Brief Description

We are looking for a high calibre PMO Manager to join us with strong organisation and stakeholder management skills, to manage the Programme Management Office for one of our key programmes, which could be related to regulatory changes, technology infrastructure or other high profile change. The PMO Manager role will report into the Programme Manager.

Department description

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. The Bank exists to ensure monetary stability, contribute to financial stability and carry out prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions.

Programmes & Transformational Change (P&TC) is part of the Projects, Data and Technology Directorate which is responsible for all aspects of the Bank’s programme and project delivery, in line with the Bank’s strategic priorities. This is achieved through effective central oversight of the Bank’s change portfolio, supported by professional management of significant business change initiatives to ensure successful delivery.

Detailed description

The PMO Manager will play an important role in managing the PMO for one of our programmes, working closely with the Programme Manager. They will also assist the Programme Manager with key Programme deliverables, and may deputise for Project Managers in their absence.

They will be required to have an understanding of the objectives of the programme and act as a champion for the Bank’s programme/project standards. They must be able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the programme/project managers, the wider programme and portfolio teams, and any third-party service providers.

They will be responsible for:

Establishing and managing governance processes for the Programme, ensuring compliance with the framework.

Setting up and tracking Programme plan incorporating project plans; facilitates planning workshops with stakeholders.

Proactively monitoring projects against plan, budget, benefits and scope, providing an early warning of any variances and exceptions to the Programme Manager.

Identifying peaks of work across the projects and proposing solutions to resource contentions.

Budget and cost management: accurate and timely forecasting and monitoring of actuals.

Manages reporting process for the programme, sets out standards and tools and defines reporting timetables to ensure provision of reliable and consistent status information.

Planning, implementing and managing programme-level RAID (risks, assumptions, issues and key dependencies between projects) and proposing resolution.

Constructively challenging Project Managers and assessing overall progress of projects by analysing and reviewing progress reports and other products.

Organising lessons learnt reviews when project phases are completed, capturing and logging the information.

Facilitates the approval processes through which projects are initiated and added to the portfolio, under direction from Programme Manager.

Providing guidance to the team on Bank programme and project management methods and standards.

Reviewing project business cases from a benefits perspective and advising on benefit identification, tracking and management.

Establishes Programme change and control and configuration management processes that adhere to Bank standards.

Resource management and onboarding; Identifying and monitoring key performance indicators that may highlight capacity / capability constraints and over commitment of resources or changes to particular areas.

Providing secretariat for key Programme meetings.

Internal and external stakeholder management across a diverse set of senior level stakeholders with different priorities.

May be involved in Quality assurance for Programme, working with Quality Assurance Manager.

Likely to have line management responsibility for junior members of the PMO team.

In addition to delivering their specific project assignment the jobholder will also contribute to the development of the Bank’s project management capability, by providing input into the continuing development of P&TC, the PMO community and the wider project and programme framework, using their practical experience of delivery. They will also act as a mentor or coach to more junior team members.

Job Requirements

Experience of managing a PMO function on complex programmes encompassing a number of projects or workstreams, with an in depth understanding of:

-Project planning

-RAID management

-Governance processes including Programme Board support

-Reporting

-Budget management and financial forecasting

Experience of working on either IT infrastructure or regulatory change programmes.

Proven ability to record/transcribe accurate minutes of executive meetings.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and presentational) with the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders. The ability to constructively challenge whilst maintaining excellent working relationships with stakeholders.

Experience of working collaboratively across project and organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals.

Strong organisation skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities, escalating to others where appopriate.

Able to use judgement and provide sound justification for decisions.

Good analytical skills and ability to use judgement: analyses complex data, make recommendations and escalate as appropriate.

Experience of managing, coaching and motivating team members.

Strong MS Project and Excel skills.

Desirable

A recognised programme/ project management or Project Support Office qualification (e.g. MSP, PRINCE 2, APMP, P3O etc).

Experience of supplier management would be an advantage.

How to apply

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Closing date: 15th September 2015.