Portfolio Manager (Connected and Automated Mobility)
| Posting date: | 10 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £53,560 - £60,118; London: £57,026 - £63,481 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 361033/2 |
Summary
Can you bring structure and direction to areas of ambiguity?
New technologies bring new challenges and opportunities, especially as they are translated from R&D trials to commercial deployments. Connected and automated mobility (CAM) technologies are developing rapidly with significant investments from stakeholders across a diverse range of sectors, in the UK and around the world.
These technologies promise to make transport safer, cleaner, and fairer, with significant economic growth and new jobs. No country has yet brought all the components together successfully and the UK can secure a place among European leaders.
Through this mission critical role, you will help shape the UK policy to achieve these outcomes as part of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), a joint policy unit between DBT and DFT which was set up in 2015. You will manage a portfolio of two DBT programmes, working across departmental boundaries, with up to £150m announced for further programme activities through to 2030 (subject to approval by new ministers), extending the ongoing £66m R&D programme, supporting the implementation of the Automated Vehicles Act, and building on more than £400m of previous joint industry and government programmes, as well as underpinning regulatory and social behavioural research programmes.
The job holder will lead a team of two SEOs managing the CCAV portfolio, acting as the senior project delivery professional for the division, whilst providing support to each programme. Priorities include:
- Working with Deputy Directors to set direction at portfolio level,
- Supporting the Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) and Programme Directors in delivering CCAV programmes.
- Lead the team to support and maintain appropriate governance and assurance for the programmes, building positive relationships and ensuring it operates optimally to support the SROs in decision-making and ensuring delivery and value for money.
- Building Capability: In conjunction with the DBT’s Project Delivery profession team, lead work to ensure CCAV as a whole has the right level of delivery skill, and are always using DBT’s standard methodologies.
- Be able to look across a broad portfolio and project pipeline to find opportunities, risk and interdependencies, and offer strategic insights
- Ensure risks and issues are an integral part of the governance cycle and boards give enough time to consider key risks and issues.
- Work with project leads to ensure effective control process are in place, agreeing tolerance and escalation points. Oversee compliance with change request process, calling out non-compliance.
- Work with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and DBT/DFT Project Delivery Directorates to ensure that CCAV’s projects receive Departmental assurance where required.
- Lead the team to support boards & reporting for individual programmes/projects as well as for the portfolio, and deliver timely updates to corporate risk and monitoring processes.
- Lead the business to develop mechanisms for measuring benefits. Review business cases regularly to assess progress towards benefits realisation, and use this to foster end of project evaluation.
- Guide the DBT programme team through finalisation of their business case at Investment Committee.
- Leading development and implementation of a stakeholder engagement plan.
- Lead a team of two SEO project managers (one from each department).
- Maintain a portfolio delivery map and critical path to supervise project progress. Recognise and supervise interdependencies across projects - and use this information to champion wider business planning.
- Knowledge and information management: Set processes that conform with the organisation’s standards. QA and challenge the project/business to follow the agreed processes. Disseminate lessons learned within projects team.
The Person
The role requires a high degree of collaborative working, across both DBT and DfT, with SROs and Programme Directors. The role is extremely varied, so the ability to work across several strands of activity at one time is vital. Decision-making and professionalism are also necessary attributes.