location_onHinxton, Saffron Walden CB10, UK
watch_later Posted: Feb 03, 2024
Skills Required
Nice To Have skills
Job Description
About the Role:
A new role has been created to create an advisory service supporting the delivery of best practice for all projects across the organisation through collaboration with PMOs and key delivery teams, Centre of Excellence, MI reporting analytics supporting CMO in their mission to deliver Change Readiness across the organisation.
You will be responsible for:
- Working with all facets of the Institute including two existing PMOs and multiple pockets of project managers and delivery leads to facilitate a common understanding of initiatives (change, projects and strategic shifts).
- Create new ways of working which are flexible to team needs but have common touchpoints to allow for reporting.
- Analysis of needs and create a taxonomy which straddles multiple types of projects and needs where there is currently no consistency to implement reporting and potentially a new tool.
- Scoping, procuring and implementing an organisation-wide tool which will require senior support.
- Surface available methodologies or crowd-source new approaches where needed to raise the bar of 40+ project roles throughout the Institute.
- Create shared knowledge and best practices within communities as Centres of Excellence - acting as a catalyst for improvement and collaboration.
- Support the wider change management team with publishing key tools, updates and helping roll out engagement plans.
- Embed change management thinking where possible and assess the portfolio to look for risks and opportunities as well as maintaining the view to challenge gaps and delays.
- As the role grows, develop your change management skills to support evolving delivery.
About You:
- You will be excited to bring your entrepreneurial mindset to finding solutions and the answers in the unknown.
- Strategic thinking, pragmatic and ability to see the ‘bigger picture’.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
- Proven ability to influence, negotiate and communicate clearly.
- Can demonstrate initiative, creativity, flexibility and a personal ethos of continuous improvement.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet changing needs.
Essential Skills:
- Project/Program Management Experience in a multidisciplinary context
- Coaching and mentoring
- Successful track record of leading tangible improvements, or transformation programmes or projects
- Excellent communication skills, proactive, pragmatic, self-driven, ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong analytical, problem solving, planning skills, critical thinking, ambiguity tolerance, creativity and strong emotional intelligence.
- Comfortable in supporting projects applying different methodologies in complex environments
- Self starter and contributes to project documentation and ongoing improvements
- Ability to identify process gaps, provide solutions and establishes best practices, processes and documentation
- Good financial knowledge