Portfolio Manager

at  Bristol City Council

FULL TIME, PERMANENT

Bristol City Council’s vision is to play a leading role in driving a city of hope and aspiration where everyone can share in its success. To achieve that vision, the council prioritises and delivers a number of programmes and projects each year that it must deliver to time, cost and quality.
We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to join our Portfolios, Programmes & Projects (PPP) Service management team to provide vision and leadership in relation to the day-to-day governance and management of our Capital Portfolio.
You will lead and inspire a Capital Portfolio Management Office (PMO) team consisting of a mixture of dedicated (hub) team members and individuals working out in PMO spokes (or satellite offices) across the organisations Capital Programme.
Providing coaching and mentoring to drive performance across these teams, you will lead the design of new PMO services in response to operational demand and then roll out and embed this practice.
It will be critical for this post holder to adopt an approach of continuous improvement, flexing and maturing in line with best practice, but also responsive to direct learning from our live capital delivery programmes and projects.
This role is also responsible for overseeing reporting across the Capital programmes and projects, ensuring that we – as a service – are providing valuable insights into delivery both for our own learning as well as supporting organisational decision making.
At times it will be necessary to challenge the status quo to drive more effective and new ways of working across the portfolio. Acting as a source of trusted advice and guidance of all core aspects of the capital programme/project lifecycles will be key, along with an ability to identify and stage interventions across the portfolio where required to ensure the integrity of the portfolio is maintained.
Bristol City Council is a great place to work. We’re a fantastic team, proud of what we achieve and looking forward to welcoming people to share in that.

HOW DO I APPLY?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.
To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet all of the essential criteria in the Person Specification for this role.
PLEASE NOTE: In order to be shortlisted for interview it is crucial that you tell us about how you feel your skills and experience demonstrate that you meet each and every essential criteria in the ‘Further Information’ section of the application form.
On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications. In some cases we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact Tara Dillon – Head of Portfolios, Programmes & Projects on email tara.dillon@bristol.gov.uk
At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Young People; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic; and Disabled candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit

Please refer the Job description for details