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Job Descrption

Join us as a PMO Lead where you will lead on project governance and team capacity across the S&T team including ownership of the central strategic plan, adverse milestone reporting, central capacity plan and RAID log. You will ensure that all risks & issues are identified, assigned, tracked and managed.

The role focuses on delivery, adverse milestone monitoring, reporting, building and proactively managing multiple stakeholder relationships and engaging with the senior management team, project management and shared service community on a regular basis.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
• Proven track record working in a Portfolio/Programme/Project Management Office (PMO) to drive governance and control of change delivery, ideally within the Financial Services industry
• Successfully operated and delivered a PMO service at Portfolio/Executive level
• Managing the production of materials and MI at an Executive level, with an understanding of Executive level requirements and... anticipating where possible

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills and able to bring across complex messages clearly and succinctly, with attention to detail and high-quality outputs
• Experience of working on large and complex business projects, programmes, or portfolios delivering successful business outcomes
• The ability to respond to urgent demands, manage changing priorities and deliver to tight timescales
• Experience with business cases, impact assessments and governance on budgets

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To support the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities
• Support to portfolio management, including facilitating portfolio prioritisation, ensuring their portfolio is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
• Monitoring of portfolio performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management.
• Collation and maintenance of portfolio documentation, including aggregation of book of work, schedules, and budgets, ensuring that portfolio documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Evaluation of the potential impact, feasibility, and resource requirements of different change proposals, and provision of recommendations of which ones to pursue based on alignment with strategic goals and organisational priorities.
• Provision of portfolio management training to portfolio leads and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.
• Support in change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change initiatives are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
• Contribution to continuous improvement of portfolio management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve portfolio performance.
• Collaboration with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that portfolio management practices are aligned with their needs and expectations.

Vice President Expectations
• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave

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