PMO Officer

Portsmouth City Council; Chorley; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization in Chorley seeks a skilled Project Manager to deliver effective project management support across various departments. Applicants should hold relevant project management qualifications and have experience in a PMO environment. The role requires strong organizational and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively in a hybrid working model. Interested candidates must demonstrate their suitability in a personal statement as part of the application process.

Benefits

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Support for disability confident applicants

Qualifications

• Experience working in a PMO or with project management methodologies.
• Scheduling experience using MS Project.
• Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality project management services to clients.
• Conduct assurance reviews and develop best practice frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops and provide project management support.

Skills

Project management experience

Strong organizational skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent qualification

Tools

MS Project

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

Job description

The Role

You will provide valuable, high-quality services to clients and play a proactive role in knowledge management to promote and implement best practice programme and project management methods, standards and documentation.

You will also provide a short-to-medium-term project management function to clients across the organisation as part of a PMO resource deployment to fill gaps in capacity or capability. Projects may be of small scale and delivered alongside core PMO duties or may be larger and require dedicated time spent largely working within the client department.

You will deliver project management support to departments when needed. Conduct assurance reviews and gated assessments for strategic projects. Develop and maintain best practice frameworks, toolkits, and templates. Coach and mentor colleagues new to project management. Facilitate workshops and produce insightful post-event reports. Create and manage MS Project schedules and support adoption of PMO tools.

You will be required to attend conferences, events and training courses to keep abreast of project and programme best practice and maintaining a bank of best practice knowledge. Support the dissemination of knowledge to the wider PMO team and to project and programme managers. Represent the PMO at meetings and network events when necessary and carry out any other tasks as directed by the Head of the PMO.

The ideal candidate

You will have experience working in or with a PMO. A suitable project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM, or equivalent) or relevant and transferrable experience and familiarity / awareness of other recognised methodologies such as programme or portfolio management.

Scheduling experience and/or training (e.g. use of MS Project). MS Word and PowerPoint (Intermediate level) and MS Excel. A good understanding of the structures, processes and governance frameworks in a complex and/or political environment. Experience of implementing business change and developing policies.

You will have strong organisation skills and the ability to work accurately and meet challenging deadlines in a pressurised environment. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; both orally and in writing, and the ability to actively listen and act upon feedback, providing constructive challenge at the right time.

Have the ability to work at all levels including with Senior Managers and Members and to build supportive relationships across all directorates. A positive attitude to change and be personally and professionally flexible and resilient. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to work both collaboratively and independently and at times with minimal direction.

Please ensure that you read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section "Who is the person" as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement.

Hybrid Working - Attendance requirements to the designated workplace

You will be required to work a minimum of two full working days in office

Application process

We anonymise applications during application & shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

As part of your application, we ask that you complete a personal statement, this statement is crucial and is where you must demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job against each of the points described in the "Who is the Person" points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal. We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

What we can offer you: Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

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