37925 - Head of Portfolio Management - Insight and Delivery
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Background:
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of the criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved tribunals in Scotland and Northern Ireland. It provides a fair, efficient and effective justice system delivered by an independent judiciary. HMCTS aims to ensure that all citizens receive timely access to justice according to their different needs, whether as victims or witnesses of crime, defendants accused of crime, consumers in debt, children at risk of harm, businesses involved in commercial disputes or as individuals asserting their employment rights or challenging the decisions of government bodies.
HMCTS is currently 4 years into a 7-year c.£1bn transformation portfolio, which is providing digital routes to access services for users, updating systems and processes, and the overall organisational structure.
Overview and role purpose:
This role will lead the risk and issue management, briefing, reporting and insight, and intervention side of the central portfolio team. You will lead a highly skilled team which is split into six functions detailed below. The role holder has overall responsibility for providing analysis to the main portfolio governance forum, and to senior stakeholders to enable them to understand the biggest risks that threaten the HMCTS wide reform programme, as well as coordinating early intervention and mitigation of these risks to ensure a successful delivery.
Key Accountabilities:
As a G6 Head of Portfolio Management - Insight and Delivery you will oversee the reporting, briefing, delivery management, and risk and issue management of a portfolio which is high-profile, large scale and complex, where the risks to be managed are significant.
In this role you will have overall accountability for the reporting of the overall portfolio, the management of risks and issues and managing the necessary interventions to bring plans back on track. Operating with considerable freedom you will be comfortable working with infrequent management guidance. Delivery of results through others and effective negotiation at senior levels will be key.
The role will need to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships and influence others where there may be divergent and conflicting views. This role therefore requires significant leadership, management, representational and influencing skills both within the organisation and with external stakeholders. You will be accountable for the running of the “7-Step framework” – which is our main internal assurance process, the portfolio’s central risk and issue management and response, as well as reporting and briefing for the portfolio.
Risk and issue management
You will oversee the risk and issue management of the portfolio ensuring that senior governance forums are keep abreast of the most significant risks and issues facing the portfolio. This must fit into the wider strategy of MOJ’s risk and issue management. You will run two central portfolio risk identification and resolution groups.
Delivery intervention and controls
You will be accountable for the risk and issue process aimed at identifying and resolving issues early. You will need to negotiate and influence at a senior level to establish cross portfolio working groups to resolve particular issues through the production of clear terms of reference/problem statements. Report back on the progress of issue intervention and ensure timely resolution of key portfolio issues. You will be the overarching owner of the “7 Steps” internal assurance process, and with other parts of the portfolio ensure that this process is effectively capturing and managing risk. This will include improvements to the process, and championing it’s use with the wider portfolio. You will also be responsible for the introduction and coordination of other project/programme delivery management initiatives such as pre-mortems and project health checks.
Reporting and insight
Ensuring that the monthly reporting process goes smoothly, and the performance pack is continuously improved. Move the reporting forward so that the dynamic reporting is more widely available and ensure that the measures within the reporting are reflective of the performance management strategy. Also responsible for producing insight and analytical analysis of the data we are collating. This analysis should recommend interventions and tell senior leaders the real story behind the reporting data.
Briefing
Oversee the briefing function within the team ensuring that materials produced for ministers and judiciary are excellent. This should oversee the preparation of the department for external assurance activities such as the Public accounts.
Development and capability
Finally, as a G6 and part of the management team of the Portfolio Delivery Team, you will be expected to contribute to the overall good running of the team, the upskilling of the team and the wider HMCTS project management community, including coaching and mentoring junior team members across the wider profession to build professional capability.
Other duties
We are a highly interdependent team and the postholder will be expected to work flexibly and undertake any other duties reasonably requested which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post.
Key relationships and contacts:
The role will face off to the senior stakeholders in the governance forums, to senior programme directors, project managers, other HMCTS contacts, as well as external stakeholders.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Experience of leading in a PMO in a major programme environment. Excellent knowledge and understanding of project delivery practice with a strong background in large scale projects, including proactive management of risks and issues, briefing and reporting.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to work across boundaries to influence and gain confidence of senior project delivery leaders and sponsors.
- Excellent leadership skills, and experience of building and leading a team, including building capability in project and portfolio management functions.
- Experience of working with data to drive effective decision-making.
Desired
- One or more of the following project delivery qualifications: Project Leadership Programme / Management of Portfolios / Managing Successful Programmes / PRINCE 2
Application Process:
To apply for this position please complete the online application form, ensuring you submit the following two application documents:
- An up-to-date copy of your CV which details your experience and achievements
- A 750-word statement of suitability which demonstrates your suitability against the Key Accountabilities and Knowledge, Skills and Experience Criteria outlined above.
If selected for interview you will be tested against the following Success Profile behaviours (Level 4):
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
Further information on Success Profiles and the required standards for this post (Level 4) can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Should you be successful at the application stage, please also note that interviews may be required to be conducted via video conference.
A Merit List of applicants meeting the required criteria may be kept for up to 12 months.
Terms & Conditions:
Fixed Term Appointment
This appointment will be made on a fixed term basis, due to the time limited nature of the Reform Programme.
For existing civil servants, whilst the role itself is time limited, at the end of the fixed term period, you will retain your permanent status but will be placed on the re-deployment register. Successful appointment on promotion will secure this grade on a permanent substantive basis.
Secondments and loans will be considered on an individual basis.
Flexible working options
HMCTS offers a flexible working system in many of its offices.
Job sharing and reduced hours
All applications for job sharing or reduced hours will be treated fairly and on a case by case basis in accordance with the MoJ’s flexible working policy and equality policy.
Excess Fares and Relocation Allowances
This job is not eligible for relocation allowances, but excess fares may be considered in accordance with MoJs excess fares allowance policy.
To apply for this position please complete the online application form, ensuring you submit the following two application documents:
- An up-to-date copy of your CV which details your experience and achievements
- A 750-word statement of suitability which demonstrates your suitability against the Key Accountabilities and Knowledge, Skills and Experience Criteria outlined above.
If selected for interview you will be tested against the following Success Profile behaviours (Level 4):
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
Further information on Success Profiles and the required standards for this post (Level 4) can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Should you be successful at the application stage, please also note that interviews may be required to be conducted via video conference.
Working Arrangements & Further Information
Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices.
Benefits
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Support
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits,retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
· UK nationals
· nationals of the Republic of Ireland
· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families
· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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This Vacancy is closed to applications.