Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a PMO officer for our client a local government based in Brent.

The successful candidate will assist the other Shared Technology Services staff with the provision of support and guidance on policy, internal standards and processes for the project and portfolio management.

Ensure delivery of up to date portfolio reports for use in governance and project boards. Attend governance and project boards to record and minute decisions and actions, and ensure that these are tracked to completion.

This is a 3 month starting contract with the possibility to extend. This role is hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Maintain programme and project files and service project boards, team meetings, quality review and other related meetings.
• Provide basic advice and guidance on policy, internal standards and processes for the project and portfolio management.
• Assist the Delivery & PMO Manager in the tracking, management and reporting on the portfolio of projects, both for potential future demand and current in-flight.
• Provide administrative support for meetings where PMO knowledge is required. This includes setting up and administrating programme meetings, including the recording of meeting action logs and decision logs.
• Work with the Delivery & PMO Manager and other Project Manager/Business Analysts across the service to ensure effective communication takes place within the shared service and between the project team and the partner organisations.
• Manage and maintain relationships with partner stakeholders including governance, assurance, resourcing, finance and commissioning.
• Manage agency and staff vacancies across the delivery team, manage recruitment campaigns on behalf of the team, with support from the Delivery & PMO Manager.
• Monitor and analyse financial reports relating to programme resourcing.
• Monitor the risks and issues register and escalations and follow up actions.
• Monitor programme actions and decisions logs ensuring next steps are actioned.
• Oversee and monitor consistent document management standards across the service, manage system permissions for document management.
• Assist with drafting documentation and reports, and preparing procedure and guidance documentation in conjunction with Project Manager/Business Analysts.
• Identify and resolve operational problems, escalating more complex and difficult issues upwards to relevant members of the Partnerships & Projects team.
• Manage the PMO work trackers and task allocation sheets and update of work status sheets.

Personal Requirements:

• Knowledge of IT Project Management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and SCRUM/AGILE.
• Knowledge of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. (Essential).
• Knowledge of Project Management Office functions in large complex organisations.
• Must have knowledge of local authorities or similarly complex organisations.
• Aware of configuration management and version control.
• Aware of the Operational/Service Architecture used with the organisation.

Working Hours: 09:00am - 17:30pm, Monday - Friday

Pay: £26.68 p/h

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.