Job summary
Exciting opportunity for the post holder to join the Digital Portfolio Management Office (PMO).
The PMO Manager is responsible for administering the change portfolio such that cost, quality, plan, time and benefits realisation are controlled and achieved, ensuring that all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for project management.
Operationally, the PMO Manager is responsible for providing information to enable project prioritisation, management information, financial reporting, resource planning, decision-making, and recruitment. The PMO Manager will play a key role in monitoring, supporting, and guiding Digital PMO team members to meet high quality, governance, and assurance standards internally and across the broader organisation.
Flexible working, home and remote working can be accommodated.
Main duties of the job
The PMO Lead develops and implements best practices to enable the successful delivery of a broad range of IT and business change projects to stakeholders across the organisation. The main responsibilities of the PMO include ensuring that the portfolio delivery team adequately plans and executes scope and business case management, programme vision and blueprint development, benefits and quality management, stakeholder management, portfolio management, programme and project planning, including supporting strategic demand management through Infrastructure Architecture and Cyber and Governance teams; milestone management, risk and issues as part of core project/programme management functions, and working with key enabling teams, for example, change management, technical operations and vendor management activities to ensure the successful delivery.
Financial management, maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, and action logs, resource forecasting, change control, dependency management, and programme reporting will be integral to delivering these responsibilities
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a masters level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in programme/project management.
Desirable
- PRINCE2 Managing Successful Projects
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3MD) or other PMO qualifications
- Management of Risk
- Management of Value
Experience
Essential
- Significant Programme Management Office experience within a large and complex environment
- Significant experience in analysing complex portfolio programme management and performance data and drawing appropriate conclusions.
- Managing PMO systems for tracking project and programme progress.
- Previous experience of working at a senior level within an organisation with complex governance and hierarchal structures.
- Experience effectively engaging multiple stakeholders and strategically engaging senior people within and outside the organisation to deliver strategic goals.
- Experience of partnership working and the ability to develop sustainable relationships with key bodies and individuals.
- Experience in developing and implementing strategy, policy, and change or innovation projects in specialist areas.
Desirable
- NHS management experience at a senior level
- Experience facilitating formal boards/committees.
Skills
Essential
- Understanding of the rigor required to define and maintain standards and processes related to the successful management of projects/programmes
- Good knowledge of NHS strategy, policy, and guidance, along with associated policy.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and present findings in an accessible way to key stakeholders.
- Able to identify interdependencies and recognise risk within Digital and NCA wide.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to engage and gain support to resolve issues and to influence and motivate others.
- Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead, manage, and motivate teams.
- Ability to use a wide range of IT software, including databases, spreadsheets, and other reporting tools.
- Able to demonstrate values and ethics in line with those the NCA holds.
- Self-motivated and proactive.
- Able to be flexible and adaptable in the face of competing demands.
- Team player.
Desirable
- Good understanding of the current social and political environment and of health and social care into \Place and regional system working national policies.
- Ability to interpret national guidance for the health economy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a masters level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in programme/project management.
Desirable
- PRINCE2 Managing Successful Projects
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3MD) or other PMO qualifications
- Management of Risk
- Management of Value
Experience
Essential
- Significant Programme Management Office experience within a large and complex environment
- Significant experience in analysing complex portfolio programme management and performance data and drawing appropriate conclusions.
- Managing PMO systems for tracking project and programme progress.
- Previous experience of working at a senior level within an organisation with complex governance and hierarchal structures.
- Experience effectively engaging multiple stakeholders and strategically engaging senior people within and outside the organisation to deliver strategic goals.
- Experience of partnership working and the ability to develop sustainable relationships with key bodies and individuals.
- Experience in developing and implementing strategy, policy, and change or innovation projects in specialist areas.
Desirable
- NHS management experience at a senior level
- Experience facilitating formal boards/committees.
Skills
Essential
- Understanding of the rigor required to define and maintain standards and processes related to the successful management of projects/programmes
- Good knowledge of NHS strategy, policy, and guidance, along with associated policy.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and present findings in an accessible way to key stakeholders.
- Able to identify interdependencies and recognise risk within Digital and NCA wide.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to engage and gain support to resolve issues and to influence and motivate others.
- Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead, manage, and motivate teams.
- Ability to use a wide range of IT software, including databases, spreadsheets, and other reporting tools.
- Able to demonstrate values and ethics in line with those the NCA holds.
- Self-motivated and proactive.
- Able to be flexible and adaptable in the face of competing demands.
- Team player.
Desirable
- Good understanding of the current social and political environment and of health and social care into \Place and regional system working national policies.
- Ability to interpret national guidance for the health economy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).