Portfolio Delivery Team Member
- Employer
- HandyStaff Ltd
- Location
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Salary
- Max. pay £520.34 PAYE Umbrella (In Scope IR35)
- Closing date
- 31 Aug 2019
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- Clearance Level
- SC
- Sector
- Information Technology, Management / Executive, Public Sector
- Job Type
- Contract
Role: Portfolio Delivery Team Member
Contract Length: 120 working days
Location(s): Salisbury
IR35: In Scope
Pay Rate to Candidate: Max. pay £520.34 per day PAYE Umbrella
Security Clearance: Security Check (SC) essential
CV Deadline: Friday 30th August, 9am
Interview Process: Face-to-face
Minimum Requirement:
Essential:
- Good standard of education; to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable:
- A qualification in Asset Management
- ITIL
- A qualification in Project Management
Description:
DSTL has an outsourced contract with an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supplier which is managed by the Intelligent Client Capability (ICC). The ICC ensures all ICT services delivered to DSTL are effective, efficient, good value for money and meet DSTL’s strategic direction and security requirements.
This role will provide in-depth specialist/professional contribution across the ICC. You will develop and maintain high levels of delivery and customer engagement whilst ensuring value for money through assurance and scrutiny. The role is intended to provide resilience within the capability for key strategic and operational activities, many of which are time bounded.
The Level 6 team member will be expected to deputise for the Level 7 Lead.
We are looking for someone who has:
- A background in project, programme or portfolio management within an IT environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can tailor their style to suit the audience
- Good customer service skills, good interpersonal skills and is used to developing and maintaining productive working relationships
- The ability to work with minimal supervision using their own initiative
- Attention to detail
- An understanding of financial considerations
- A good level of commercial awareness
- Experience of influencing senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions
- Experience of scoping customer requirements, considering policy, strategic direction and technical restraints
- Experience of using a variety of analytical techniques to identify trends, provide reports and inform decisions
In this role you will:
- Work closely with both business colleagues and DSTL’s ICT service provider, gaining a broad understanding of business needs, maintaining strong relationships and influencing senior stakeholders’ decisions through accurate representation of what can be achieved
- Proactively monitor supplier capacity and resource issues to optimise delivery
- Deputise as point of contact for supplier escalations and exceptions
- Develop and maintain portfolio plans or project plans ensuring a common understanding across business and supplier communities of the capabilities required meet the IT strategy
- Work with supplier and business communities to provide governance, prioritise deliveries and establish dependencies, assessing and incorporating the impact of changes and ensuring all parties are fully informed
- Produce and review accurate key documentation to tight deadlines to ensure governance is maintained
- Analyse reports, recognising trends, providing resolutions to issues and undertake business reporting
- Analyse customer requirements ensuring understanding of scope of requests and impacts on other areas. Ensuring requests agree with DSTL policy and strategic direction
- Review and streamline ICC processes including the implementation and communications associated with all processes
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