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Contract Type: Permanent Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 20% in the Oxford office per month
About Us
We’re Nominet – a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of the UK internet. While we're best known for running .UK domains, our DNS expertise also underpins critical internet infrastructure that government services, including the NHS, rely on. As a public benefit company, our work has a positive impact on society. We’ve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve people’s lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.
The Role
Nominet is seeking an experienced PMO lead who will play a key role in:
- Defining and maintaining investment lifecycle delivery methods across a hybrid estate as we transition from Waterfall to Agile ways of working
- Providing quality assurance, reporting and support for the demand and delivery portfolios as they manage initiatives through the lifecycle.
- Running enabling processes in capacity planning, budgeting & resource scheduling
What You'll Be Doing
Investment Lifecycle Delivery Methods
- Establish end-to-end investment lifecycle delivery methods from Strategy through to benefits realisation across Agile & Waterfall ways of working
- Work with existing methods, governance and team to develop a transition plan from current to target state methods
- Build community to foster best practice, lessons learnt and consistent approach to refine investment lifecycle delivery methods continually
Stakeholder Management
- Support Executives/Sponsors in their roles and that they understand the methods and accountabilities
- Ensure that communications and reporting are in place to support business objectives across stakeholders, change and progress.
- Ensure that communications and reporting meet the needs of the Executive/Sponsors and adjust as needed
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Planning, Governance & Reporting
- Establish a regular cadence of timetable and meetings to drive reporting and control of the portfolios
- Manage supporting PMO processes across resourcing, budgeting & estimating, scheduling, quality control, reporting
- Accountable for document repository and clear guidance on use of tools & templates to support methods & processes
- Work with delivery community to review materials regularly and before decision points within the lifecycle for quality and appropriateness to support actions & approvals
- Help identify and support Head of Transformation and Executives/Sponsors where interventions are required to support progress and resolve blockers to progress escalating as appropriate to resolve in a timely manner
About You
- Delivers high-quality work at short notice and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrable experience operating across both agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and waterfall (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP) delivery frameworks, with the ability to translate fluently between the two
- Project management experience – have worked on multiple projects across a range of industries and performed a range of roles through their career, giving exposure to all aspects of delivery
- Expert stakeholder management including external partners
- Proficient with portfolio and project management tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Miro, MS Project)
Our Values
- We Make Things Happen
- We Pull Together
- We Bring A Positive Mindset
- We Keep It Simple
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Our people make things happen, but our values are our compass as a company, guiding our day-to-day work and building our culture. They reflect that we're strongest when we're proactive and pull together, while underlining the importance of a "glass half full" mindset and aiming to keep things simple for success.
What We Offer
- Early Finish Friday – 34-hour working week with full-time pay (finish at midday on Friday)
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy an additional 5 days
- Bupa private healthcare + Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme matched to 7%
- Electric vehicle scheme with on-site charging points
- Rewards platform with discounts at hundreds of retailers and restaurants
- Medicash discounts on routine healthcare including optical and dental
- Annual company bonus
Diversity Statement
We're passionate about creating a workplace where every individual is valued, respected, and empowered. Somewhere we can benefit from all forms of diversity and discover the true value in our differences. If there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Security Statement
Nominet is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of the internet and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment by participating in the relevant security and screening processes. All roles working for Nominet will be subject to a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Some roles, due to the nature of their work, will require additional security clearance.
Please note that Nominet is unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation support for this position.
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