Role: PMO Manager Contract Length: 18 Months Location: Aldermaston / Hybrid 3 days a week on site Security Clearance: DV
Job Purpose:
To support the PMO Lead by providing an effective PMO that serves as a centre of standardisation and coherence for the various workstreams and projects, enabling them to deliver to time, quality, cost and compliant with AWE and relevant government processes.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Schedule management - Effectively manage the integrated schedule for the transformation. This includes ensuring the currency of the schedule and proactive management of deliverables including escalation of risks and issues using MS Project.
2. Proactive management of the programme risks, issues, dependencies and opportunities (RAIDO) and the programme master data and assumptions list (MDAL) ensuring their currency and relevance.
3. Quality & Assurance Management - implement the quality & assurance management strategy ensuring the programme delivers to specification with proportionate reviews undertaken at defined times with appropriate follow-up actions swiftly implemented.
4. Draft relevant programme reports, briefings and artefacts.
5. Information Management - Implement the information Management Plan ensuring that the right people have access to the right information at the right time while complying with AWE's information management processes.
6. Act as the secretariat for the regular cross-workstream workshops and meeting to ensure coherence of overall programme.
7. Be flexible and resilience to undertake appropriate project management tasks across the programme to ensure the smooth running of the programme.
Skills, Qualifications, Experience, Regulatory Requirements and Further Requirements for the Job
Essential Skills and Experience
1. Evidence of successfully leading cross-functional teams in a moderately complex programme
2. Proven experience of project delivery
3. Build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships
4. Read, analyse and interpret charts, spreadsheets, schedules and (in some business areas) technical drawings
5. Clear and concise communication approach, both oral and written, at multiple levels. Compile and present presentations to peers and Senior Managers
6. Build good team morale and spirit and motivate others
7. Manage resources effectively (people, budget, equipment)
8. Allocate and manage work of team members, taking account of individuals' different abilities and workloads
9. Listen to stakeholder requests, assimilate and convert into project team action, plans and schedules
10. Hold people to account when they under deliver or let standards slip
11. Use Microsoft Office tools
Desirable Skills, Experience, Qualifications and / or Professional Membership
1. Motivating and managing in a highly regulated environment
2. Membership of a relevant professional body.
3. Evidence of project management competence e.g. APM qualifications.
Please confirm the below when submitting CV's:
- Place of birth if outside of the UK
- Sole British citizen/ Dual nationality/ Second nationality
- Residency/ working outside of the UK in the last 10 years
- Parents place of birth/ nationality if known