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Governance Manager, Infrastructure and Projects Authority
| Posting date: | 14 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,850 to £48,243 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £44,500 - £48,243 National: £40,850 - £44,260 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 September 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 360625/1 |
Summary
The IPA is the government’s centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects. We sit at the heart of government, reporting to the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. Our core teams include experts in infrastructure, project delivery and project finance who work with government departments and industry. We support the successful delivery of all types of infrastructure and major projects; ranging from railways, schools, hospitals and housing, to defence, IT and major transformation programmes. We lead the project delivery and project finance professions across government.
Our purpose is to continuously improve the way infrastructure and major projects are delivered, in order to support government priorities and improve people’s lives. We aspire to create the best-performing project system of any country in the world.
The IPA works with government and industry to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and effectively, and to improve performance over time. We work on the overall project delivery system, which includes the projects, people and processes that together create the right environment for successful delivery. We measure how well the system is performing, so we can learn important lessons and continuously improve project performance over time.
The Team
The purpose of the Function, Insight and Profession Team is to support the leadership and development of the project delivery function and profession. The team contributes to the overall work of the IPA in four service areas:
Our purpose is to continuously improve the way infrastructure and major projects are delivered, in order to support government priorities and improve people’s lives. We aspire to create the best-performing project system of any country in the world.
The IPA works with government and industry to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and effectively, and to improve performance over time. We work on the overall project delivery system, which includes the projects, people and processes that together create the right environment for successful delivery. We measure how well the system is performing, so we can learn important lessons and continuously improve project performance over time.
The Team
The purpose of the Function, Insight and Profession Team is to support the leadership and development of the project delivery function and profession. The team contributes to the overall work of the IPA in four service areas:
- Build a skilled, valued and respected profession through the use of targeted interventions. This is done through learning and leadership products, ensuring we have a diverse and robust pipeline, and orchestrating the accreditation of members of the profession
- Lead the function’s data collation and analysis from across GMPP and more broadly. It provides tools, insight and data to enable
better outcomes for projects at the IPA portfolio and programme level - Enables the function to continuously improve and hold itself accountable by supporting its governance, management and strategic direction and driving its maturity by setting standards, best practice guidance and developing other capabilities.
- Build an engaged and connected community across government. This is done through regular communications and events, and by supporting the adoption of products and services to bring about change that benefits individuals and organisations by helping the government to run more effectively and efficiently.
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority is the home of the government’s project delivery function and is responsible for:
- setting the standards for and enabling the set-up, development, delivery and assurance of portfolios, programmes and projects
- setting professional standards, building capability and capacity through learning and providing the mechanisms through which professionals can develop their career
- providing the data, benchmarks and insights needed to understand and predict performance, and drive targeted continuous improvement and interventions
- setting the strategies needed across government to develop and improve project delivery and meet UNSDG goals overall building a community of informed and celebrated professionals through communications, events and campaigns
We are looking for an experienced Project Delivery Governance Manager to lead on the day-to-day governance and control activities to enable effective management and decision-making.
This is an exciting opportunity to join small, friendly team that support the Projects Council, CEO of the IPA and Director of Function, Profession and Standards with the strategic direction, management and governance of the function.
Roles and Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the role will be to:
- Manage the development, maintenance and implementation of long-term strategy for the project delivery function across government and to support the alignment of departmental level functional strategies with the cross-government functional strategy.
- Manage secretariat for key governance boards and provide a high-quality service, ensuring it is well-planned and seamlessly delivered including meeting scheduling, forward planning, preparation of agenda, management of papers, minutes, actions and decisions.
- Manage the development of the governance and management framework for the project delivery function across government
- Develop and test a centralised reporting process for the continuous improvement assessment framework and support departments to develop action plans
- Support departments with the development and maturity of departmental level governance and management frameworks and ensuring alignment with cross government governance
- Regularly review and develop the project delivery functional standard and its assessment framework, ensuring that it is embedded across the project delivery system and drives value and improved outcomes
- Support the maturity of the IPA and wider project delivery function on strategy development, governance and management
- Establish effective-working relationships within IPA and other government departments, along with other government functions to maintain alignment
- Conduct research and analysis of functional effectiveness, processes, procedures and stakeholders to understand areas for improvement, future strategic goals and the issues of the future that the project delivery function should be preparing for now
- Present findings, projections and recommended actions to senior leaders of the project delivery function
- Monitor and report on progress against strategy, including the identification and implementation of metrics
- Support and guide senior executive decision-making processes.