JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is situated in our Portfolio Management Office (PMO)
which acts as an independent corporate change governance
group that will prioritise, direct and support all current and
future COPFS transformational change projects and
processes.
As one of our PMO Analysts, you will be responsible for
providing accurate and comprehensive analysis on our
Portfolio projects throughout the end-to-end project’s
lifecycles.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our Portfolio Management Office (PMO) is seeking talented Analysts to join our dynamic team. As an integral part of our independent corporate change governance group, you will play a crucial role in prioritizing, directing, and supporting transformational change projects and processes within COPFS.

SCOPE OF THE ROLE

• Provide exception reporting, support compliance and
monitor progress of the Portfolio, including portfolio
variation management.
• Provide analysis findings and recommendations to the
Executive and Senior Management the information to
enable key decision making in regard to the portfolio
• Maintaining schedules and plans, financial monitoring,
supporting wider PMO decisions, maintaining risks,
actions and issues, dependency and resource
management as well as documentation and
communication

ROLE SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Undertake root cause and effect problem analysis,
identify potential solutions to resolve, collaborating with
others working on the project and wider teams to
achieve goals.
• Conduct data gathering and analysis and provide
summarised reports
• Document outputs appropriately to enable clear
stakeholder understanding.
• Develop, maintain and co-ordinate the production of
management dashboards/reports to support
governance and ensuring a consistent approach to
reporting.
• Provide a strategic overview of all Programmes and
Projects by collating, analysing and evaluating data,
reporting any areas of concern to relevant Senior
Management.
• Evaluate and implement process improvements to
enable more effective delivery.
• Support Senior Management in championing and
embedding standard practices across the organisation.
• Compile and provide monthly Benefits reporting and
assess benefits management across the Portfolio to
identify gaps, overlaps and conflicts and eliminate
double counting.
• Program/Project Status Reporting: metrics & narrative
status reporting, variances & trend analysis. Includes
generation of reports following predefined frameworks
as well as preparation of custom reports as per project
needs Adoption & implementation of best practices and
standard PMO processes.
Please note these are not exhaustive lists and other
duties may be required as appropriate to the role.