PMO Manager(Ref: 89635)

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• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer) 

Salary: London: £45,824 – £50,039, National: £39,868 – £43,535 

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working. 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Vacancy number: 89635 

• We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a PMO Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Technology Services Portfolio team.

We’re looking for a talented and tenacious PMO Manager to join our team to take the lead in creating world-class services in the justice system. We use agile approaches to make rapid but meaningful improvements to services that live up to the unique challenges of MOJ’s responsibility to society.

With colleagues based across the UK, we recognise the importance of producing clear strategies, frameworks and standards to keep our MoJ stakeholders informed and engaged in this portfolio’s aims. 

Background

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the largest UK government departments, employing over 70,000 people, with a budget of approximately £8 billion. Each year millions of people use our services across the UK, including courts, tribunals and prisons in England and Wales.

The MoJ are coming to the end of large technology contracts with suppliers who provide End User Computer Services and Network Infrastructure Services. Evolve is a portfolio of eleven projects working to define and implement a future orientated technology strategy and operating model for the MoJ, including multiple contract re-tenders, new contract awards, building internal capability, in-sourcing key services and new ways of working. 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025 

Key Responsibilities:

This role works in the Portfolio team within Technology Services and its purpose is to administer change and monitor the Portfolio such that cost, quality, plan, time, and benefits realisation are controlled and achieved, through ensuring that the Portfolio adheres to the best practices and standard approaches for delivery. The PMO Manager develops and implements best practices to enable the successful delivery of a broad range of IT and business change projects to stakeholders across the business. Operationally, the PMO manager provides and enables project prioritisation, management information, financial reporting, resource planning, decision making, and recruitment.

You will:

• Ensure the successful implementation of the PMO’s strategy, responsibilities, services and deliverables.
• Monitor Portfolio reporting and assist the Portfolio Leads in reporting to Senior

Management.

• Establish frameworks and standards for the Technology Services Portfolio.
• Manage and compile Technology Services Portfolio related financial and KPI information.
• Update and maintain the Action Log and Decisions Log.
• Ensure dependencies are managed and the dependency log is accurately maintained.
• Provide a quality assurance role in line with the defined PMO process.
• Ensure audit actions are appropriately tracked and managed to closure.
• Distil good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Define and embed control and governance.
• Prepare regular status reporting to all levels of the business.
• Develop a portfolio Change Control Framework including defining tolerances and escalation routes, ensuring change control methods and processes are utilised.
• Create and maintain a portfolio roadmap of delivery.
• Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across Technology Services Portfolio. 

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification 

Essential

• Proven experience as a PMO Manager in a complex organisation, able to track KPI’s and implement change.
• Proven experience establishing governance, frameworks and standards.
• A strong collaborator, focused on working effectively with others, supporting colleagues and achieving success as a team.
• Ability to confidently engage with colleagues at all levels, with the diplomatic ability to influence others and the ability to mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distil complex information into clear and engaging narratives.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office including SharePoint, PowerPoint and an awareness of PowerBI. 

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,868, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,804 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : [email protected]
• Telephone : 0845 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL ([email protected]) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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