Senior Portfolio Delivery Partner - Major Projects

Government Recruitment Service; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service seeks a G7 Project Delivery expert to join the Major Projects Portfolio office in Darlington. You will provide expertise across the project delivery life cycle, challenge performance, identify major risks, and support project teams to deliver benefits.

Working with NISTA and senior stakeholders, you will help set governance, improve reporting, and champion best-practice planning as part of a central delivery function within the PDD.

Responsibilities

• Providing expertise to projects, advising and guiding them through the project delivery life cycle and towards successful project completion.
• Challenging project delivery performance, advising on solutions and ensuring major risks are identified at Group/Departmental level.
• Facilitating solutions to aid project delivery, such as planning, risk, problem-solving and lessons learned sessions and workshops.
• Working with the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) to ensure oversight and appropriate treatment for those projects that are classed as part of the Governments Major Projects Portfolio, including pipeline projects.
• Managing senior level stakeholders and working strategically to identify solutions to complex problems.
• Working across the division to advise, assist and consult, as appropriate, to ensure the business cases and management (delivery) strategies of the Major projects and programmes are robust and set up for success.
• Working alongside other project delivery business partners in ensuring group dependencies are identified and tracked.
• Working to an agreed vision and standard for project delivery, and to champion the use of best practice project planning standards, tools, and processes.
• Building and maintaining external networks to access and further develop technical and professional best practice.
• Working with the other teams within PDD to ensure the best advice and guidance to assist the major projects programmes with delivery, can be achieved.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service seeks a G7 Project Delivery expert to join the Major Projects Portfolio office in Darlington. You will provide expertise across the project delivery life cycle, challenge performance, identify major risks, and support project teams to deliver benefits.

Working with NISTA and senior stakeholders, you will help set governance, improve reporting, and champion best-practice planning as part of a central delivery function within the PDD.