Job description

Construction PMO Manager(Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 12 months

Contracting Authority: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Location: Hybrid – London & Remote

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

This role is in conjunction with the Home Office.

As a Construction PMO Manager your main responsibilities would be:

• Working at pace with a range of end users across the Home Office’s Asylum, Protection and Enforcement Directorate, to develop project proposals at mandate through to timely completion, within budget envelopes, evidencing value for money solutions and benefits realisation.
• Leading a team of designers, planning consultants, professional consultants and ultimately constructors in the successful construction of new IRCs for Home Office, to health and safety, time, quality and cost constraints
• Working across departments to co-ordinate input from other in-house specialist teams including commercial and technical specialists.
• Timely assurance and submission of individual project option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases and board papers; driving design innovation.
• Timely procurement of supply chain resources.
• Setting direction and managing performance levels of supply chain partners, through setting out clear performance indicators, at the same continually challenging resourcing proposals.
• Identifying risks and issues, ensuring compliance and making sure mitigation plans are in place; managing early warning notices and chairing core groups when contractual remedies are required.

· Embedding wider efficiency targets set by the Cabinet Office and IPA, such as the implementation of building information modelling, modern methods of construction, government soft landings by the inclusion of FM professionals; and collaborative procurement, particularly early contractor engagement and project bank accounts.

• Regularly holding to account key stakeholders, delivery partners and constructors in making sure all key project milestones are on track, all policies are considered (such as sustainability) and all project reporting is assured and submitted on time; at the same time assuring all actively is managed in line with the project control framework controls.
• Ensuring lessons learned carried out as best practice and findings are collected and distributed across stakeholder groups, including technical services, FM, commercial, and post project evaluations are conducted and recorded.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

· Strong project leadership is a critical element of this role, as is the ability to prioritise and manage a personal workload and being accountable for their own professional development.

· Regular travel to home Office sites.

· Should have experience of effectively working through a diverse range of stakeholders, to achieve successful outcomes.

· Should have the ability to organise and prioritise delivery solutions in a continually changing environment, where appropriate to do so.

· Should have the experience of process improvement and embedding best practice.

· Should have experience of identifying risk and implementing mitigation plans.

· Should have experience of delivering projects to a standard control framework process.

· Knowledge and experience of drafting and presenting business cases, option appraisals and board papers.

· Knowledge and use of Government Soft Landings (GSL).

· Knowledge and experience in delivering projects through the industry standard of the RIBA digital plan of works.

· Knowledge and experience of good supplier relationship, contract and commercial management outcomes.

· Knowledge of sustainability policy and its application in property/projects

· Knowledge of the strategic direction and objectives in managing and improving the Government estate.

· Knowledge and use of construction contracts to deliver large scale projects, managing contractual claims and contractual variations

· Have, or be willing to work towards, a recognised construction qualification, such as the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) or RICS.

Desirable

· Awareness of Government Property Profession.

· Experience in management of property disciplines e.g. Facilities Management, Sustainability, Health & Safety, Fire Safety

· Project or programme management qualification (e.g. Prince 2 or MSP)

· Knowledge or experience of implementing continuous improvement methodologies e.g. Lean, Six Sigma etc.

· Knowledge and use of PPC 2000, NEC3 forms of contracts and contract remedies.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: £550.00-£650.00 per day

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Project Management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: PSR1JP00070439