PMO Analyst - Certain Advantage : Job Details

PMO Analyst

Warwickshire (CV35 - Hybrid; some onsite working during the week is required)

Salary up to £36k p.a. plus benefits

Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our established public sector client for a PMO Analyst to support the Project Management Office helping the delivery of change projects across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities;

• Support Project Managers to ensure project plans and documentation (e.g. RAID Log) are complete to the required PMO standard and advise on appropriate action if needed.
• Co-ordinate regular audits of projects ensuring appropriate documentation is in place as per the agreed PMO standards and framework.
• Co-ordinate the collection of monthly project status reports from Project Managers as per agreed PMO standards and consolidate for Governance Boards in the agreed format.
• Develop the templates for the PMO to ensure projects and programmes can effectively follow the agreed methodology.
• Continuously evaluate and refine PMO processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with Project Managers to collect data from project resource plans to identify / consolidate project resource requirements.
• Informed by project level resource plans, maintain a portfolio level resource plan to ensure optimal scheduling of competing resource requirements including for Change and Digital Services.
• Identify resource constraints and potential conflicts, working with Head of Change to agree resource allocation priorities and mitigate risks.
• Informed by project level risk logs (produced and maintained by Project Managers), identify key risks and maintain a portfolio level risk and issues log in the agreed PMO format.
• Raise purchase orders and invoices for Change and Digital Services following purchasing/finance policies.
• Provide advice and guidance to all relevant staff in the use of the agreed PMO methodology, processes and techniques.
• To undertake other duties commensurate with the nature, level of responsibility and grading of this post, as required.

What we want you to offer

• PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of key approaches to manage and deliver projects e.g., Risk register, project plan.
• Experience of successfully supporting projects through a PMO and working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver results within fixed timeframes with limited resource.
• Experience of organising teams, establishing processes and working to deadlines.
• Proven ability of undertaking multiple tasks, co-ordinating stakeholders and achieving Projects delivery
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Demonstrate a track record of building strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders - internal and external, e.g. reporting bodies, senior management, suppliers and contractors.

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