Portfolio Management Office PfMO Manager

Are you ready to become our new Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Manager? Do you want to work for a purpose-driven organization dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of citizens across the UK?Money and Pensions Service has created a single Change Portfolio with a view to improve maturity in this key department. In this new role of Portfolio Management Office (PMO) Manager you will be instrumental in defining and maintaining the standards for programme and project management within MaPS. This includes the implementation and sharing of best practice as well as the development and application of procedures, tools and techniques to standardise methodologies and realise economies. You will provide expert guidance and support to the Change Portfolio. The MaPS Change Portfolio has a wider range of programme and project types with different levels of complexity.Role OverviewThe Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Manager will report directly to Corporate Director of Change/Senior Programme Manager . In this role, you will be responsible for:Key Responsibilities:Reporting to the Corporate Director of Change, this role will provide;

Delivery and Leadership: Support programmes and projects in the delivery of business case benefits and outcomes. Champion the use of best practice project management standards and processes.

Governance and Assurance: Ensure appropriate documentation and governance review, at appropriate points in the project lifecycle are in place across the Change Portfolio project and programme lifecycle. Monitor the effectiveness of controls and ensure that recommendations are acted upon. Provide assurance to Corporate Director and via onward reporting.

Portfolio level reporting for the Change Board and ExCo: ensuring they have sufficient information from reporting to be able to challenge progress and make decisions confidently.

Benefits: Ensure they are appropriately identifiedwith processes in place enabling their tracking and reporting.

Business Case: Support programmes and projects in the development of business case.

Budget: Provide a Change Portfolio view of projects and programmes budgets, and forecast actual costs against them, working with Financial colleagues.

Resources: Provide a Change Portfolio view of projects and programmes resources. Support projects and programmes in the identification, recruitment, development, deployment and assignment of resources throughout the lifecycle.

Stakeholder management: Advise the project team on appropriate tools and techniques for managing stakeholder relationships. Provide assurance to PM's on the effectiveness of stakeholder management arrangements.

Risks, Issues Dependencies: work with Risk Team and provide assurance to Change Portfolio on the effectiveness of Risk and Issue management and provide a change portfolio view.

Change Management: Monitor and enforce protocols to change the scope of projects and/or programmes and update documents as required.Project performance and controls: Ensuring robust and achi