Senior PMO Lead - Strategic Reward

Government Recruitment Service; North East; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK seeks a Senior PMO Lead for the Strategic Reward Team. This role focuses on developing the Reward Strategy project and maintaining reporting tools, ensuring governance and effective communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will manage information processes and support team activities. Strong relationship-building and organizational skills are essential for success in this position.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the Reward Strategy project product set.
• Help to develop and maintain qualitative reporting tools.
• Support the delivery of plans, risks, and reporting.
• Provide support for daily stand ups across the team.
• Assist checkpoint meetings across this team and our partners.
• Support the risk lead for the team.
• Manage and maintain the Information management process.
• Provide secretariat activity for the expected Steering Group structure.

Job description

Overview

DWP is looking to fill one role within the Strategic Reward Team, People and Capability Directorate. As the senior PMO Lead, your role encompasses but not limited to supporting the development of the Reward Strategy project, ensuring continuous innovation and improvement. Helping to develop and maintain qualitative reporting tools, including a Strategic Reward Dashboard, delivering key metrics for senior leaders and tracking progress against priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the Reward Strategy project product set in support of its activity across DWP and wider as needed, while also ensuring innovation and improvement is at the heart of continuous improvement.
• Help to develop and maintain qualitative reporting tools, including a Strategic Reward Dashboard to deliver clear key metrics for senior leaders and track progress against Departmental and Director led Priorities.
• Support the delivery of plans, risks, and reporting, capturing decisions and dependencies to support the robust governance of our work, developing the holistic view and forward look on Reward Strategy team activity. Ensure governance is planned in, templates are completed, and secretariats engaged where appropriate.
• Provide support for daily stand ups across the team to ensure actions are owned, progressed, and unblocked in a timely fashion, building credible trusted relationships to get the most of this engagement
• Assist checkpoint meetings across this team and our partners in the Pay team to help drive increased connectivity across our work, including developing and maintaining a joint plan with critical milestones captured and tracked.
• Support the risk lead for the team, engaging with risk experts and other stakeholders as needed to ensure escalation / mitigation activity is taking place.
• Manage and maintain the Information management process across the team ensuring it is upheld in line with Departmental Policies - ensuring the relevant record keeping is undertaken (registered files and internal audit trails), DPIA is held and updated accordingly.
• Provide secretariat activity for the expected Steering Group structure that will be put in place.
• As a member of P&C, actively participate in the people activity of the directorate.