Portfolio Milestone and Dependency Analyst
| Posting date: | 15 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National pay location: Liverpool £44,720 - £47,850; London pay location: Croydon £48,720 - £52,130 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 April 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 400736/2 |
Summary
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities.
The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
Our role in the Home Office Portfolio and Project Delivery Directorate (PPD) is to ensure that the change portfolio remains optimised, balanced and prioritised so that it contributes maximum value delivery of the Home Office (HO) objectives, through robust governance, assurance and insight and the implementation of tools and frameworks to build capability and implement standards for project delivery across the HO.
The successful candidate will support the Milestone and Planning Lead in providing the HO with the expertise to manage and oversee the change control process and delivery of complex milestone and intra programme dependencies across the Portfolio, helping to support and enable programmes to follow standards and get the basics right, whilst identifying the emerging picture and ultimately enabling successful delivery.
PPD are looking to reinvigorate the change control process across the department, ensuring programme baselines are frozen so delivery can be accurately tracked and future planning activity more realistic and achievable, supporting the department's drive to improve financial forecasting across the portfolio. A critical part of any programme plan is effective dependency management, particularly in a complex portfolio environment. The successful candidate will champion the change control process, ensuring standards are met in addition to managing portfolio level milestones and dependencies, building strong interdepartmental relationships to mitigate and prevent risks to delivery.
This job role is suited to an individual with an analytical mind and who is keen to see the ‘bigger picture’. As a Portfolio Milestone and Dependency Analyst, you will help to drive the co-ordination and presentation of varied and complex data sets, providing intelligence led insight to aid decision making at senior levels.
Key Responsibilities
• Help to drive the co-ordination and presentation of varied and complex data sets, providing intelligence-led insight to aid decision making at senior levels.
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels across the organisation and on occasion other government departments, including programmes within the HO PPD portfolio and wider PPD teams.
• Be a strong communicator, with the ability to seek to understand the data, helping to identify common links across the portfolio.
• Work at pace, applying project management best practice to support the governance of the dependency management and milestone planning framework, whilst embracing innovation and technology to drive quality improvements across the portfolio reporting landscape.
• Promote consistency and standards whilst championing the work of the Project Delivery Centre of Excellence in using of Microsoft Project Online (MSPO) and the Home Office Project Delivery Framework.
Work Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements.
Travel
UK travel can be expected on an Ad Hoc basis dependent on business needs. Candidates could be required to travel between other hubs for meetings if required. This could involve overnight stays, if so, enough notice will be given.
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