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Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and places – we save lives and we are highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

This is an exciting new opportunity for an exceptional candidate to drive HSE’s Transformation agenda and help shape our future. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a tangible difference that will be felt across the entire of Great Britain, please read on.

Reporting to the Portfolio Office Manager, this is an influential position, playing a key role in the successful operation of one of the world’s leading regulators.

As a Senior PMO Analyst you will play an important role in defining, building and monitoring our ambitious roadmap of digital and business transformation, focusing on operational and regulatory effectiveness and efficiency whilst improving overall portfolio outcomes.

You will be responsible for working with a variety of operational delivery specialisms across a sub section of the portfolio to improve project and programme delivery compliance, you will define and embed the standards for delivery and assurance management, ensuring all aspects of delivery compliance are governed and assured to support HSE in delivering our ambitions transformation agenda.

Focused on monitoring best practice standards to drive the collective delivery of organisational outcomes that will improve regulatory effectiveness and efficiency and improve project and programme compliance you will help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

• Lead assurance activities including health checks, deep dives and stage gateway reviews to ensure that all projects/programmes are effectively managing risks, scope, plans and finances in line with PMO standards.
• Work with business areas to identify and categorise new projects that relate to their portfolio area, utilising portfolio management and multi criteria analysis to determine strategic value and prioritisation.
• Identify and monitor portfolio level risks and issues and escalate as appropriate
• Maintain portfolio Finance / RAID and Planning trackers and create high quality reports for a variety of stakeholders with different requirements
• Working with the Planning Manager to develop mechanisms for measuring and monitoring delivery and tracking dependencies across the portfolio

• Co-ordinate reporting from projects and programmes and provide analysis of performance.
• Develop the Centre of Excellence, providing expert advice to Project/Programme Managers and senior leaders on correct processes, templates and governance procedures and
• Play a key role in developing and implementing HSE's Change Framework
• Manage and engage with a wide range of stakeholders, acting as an arbitrator to resolve disputes relating to area of expertise and provide expert advice and peer reviews where required.
• Support the PMO Portfolio Manager and Head of Service to communicate and build commitment to a shared PMO vision and sense of purpose.
• Lead lessons learned and post implementation reviews and embed into future project delivery.
• Provide direct training as well as coach and mentor other project professionals on PMO standards.
• May work independently or leading a small team operating across various specialisms to support the development and communication of change and business improvement principles, guidelines and best practice throughout HSE to build knowledge and optimise service delivery.

Depending on your skillset and experience you may be provided the opportunity to specialise in a specific area of PMO (Risk, Planning, Finance etc.)

Experience – essential:

• Experience of providing assurance for programmes and projects throughout their lifecycle to ensure standards are being met and that scope, risks and issues, plans, benefits and objectives are clearly articulated and agreed by all parties
• Experience of risk and issue management, ensuring mitigations are in place and dependencies are actively managed resolving any programme conflicts
• Experience of project or programme planning, including proficiency at MS Project
• Experience of analysing data to create effective reporting to senior management
• Experience of project / portfolio financial management and providing senior management with financial management information (MI)
• Experience of conducting lessons learned and post implementation reviews, ensuring resulting recommendations are collated and available for use in subsequent projects
• Experience of defining and implementing best practice standards and supporting compliance
• Experience of coaching and mentoring team members as part of driving the consistency of standards and outputs.
• Experience of leading change and delivering service/performance improvements, efficiencies, and enhanced user experience.
• Experience of working in an Agile project environment

Experience - desirable

• Experience of working within a regulatory or similarly complex environment.
• Experience of delivering / assuring large scale transformation programmes to GDS standards.
• Experience in project / programme management delivery
• Experience of facilitating gate way assurance boards.
• Experience of leading and managing teams on a matrix management basis
• A relevant Project / Portfolio Management qualification (Prince2, MSP, MOP, Agile etc.)

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1% , far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career.
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1- day Civil Service privilege leave
• Competitive parental leave benefits

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

This post is eligible for Excess Fares Allowance. A successful internal candidate currently based at another office may be entitled to Excess Fares Allowance in line with HSE policy (http://intranet/finance/expenses/excess-fares-allowance-policy.htm)

t is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application.

For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached document.

Any move to HSE from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at here

If you have a disability and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: [email protected]

Please note, if you are a current civil servant and you are currently undergoing any of the following formal actions your application will not be progressed any further;

Formal discipline action, any formal action regarding attendance, poor performance or any restriction of duties as a result of disciplinary action.

Job contact :

Name :
Dominic McGourty
Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team :

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