Homes England
Portfolio Administrator
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Job Summary
Working within the Integrated Change Programme (ICP) PMO, you'll play a key role in supporting the governance, reporting and coordination activities that enable effective oversight of programme delivery.
You'll join a collaborative and supportive team within the Enterprise PMO, working closely with programme, project and business stakeholders to ensure governance activities, reporting cycles and management information are delivered consistently and effectively.
This role sits at the centre of programme coordination and assurance, helping to provide senior stakeholders with the information they need to make informed decisions and maintain oversight of delivery. Alongside day-to-day PMO activities, you'll have opportunities to contribute to improvements in reporting, data management and ways of working as the programme continues to evolve.
Job Description
You are highly organised, detail focused and take pride in producing accurate, high-quality outputs. You'll be comfortable managing competing priorities and coordinating activities across multiple stakeholders to meet governance and reporting deadlines.
You'll have experience supporting projects, programmes or portfolios and understand the importance of strong governance, effective information management and robust programme controls. You enjoy working with data and are confident maintaining reports, dashboards and management information that support effective decision-making.
Most importantly, you'll be a proactive team player who builds strong working relationships, takes ownership of your responsibilities and looks for opportunities to improve the way things are done.
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience of working within a project, programme, portfolio or PMO environment, supporting governance, reporting, information management or delivery activities.
- Experience of producing, maintaining and quality assuring management information and reporting outputs.
- Strong data handling skills, with the ability to maintain accurate, consistent and well-controlled information.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines and multiple workstreams.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams and functions.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications and collaboration platforms, including SharePoint, Teams and Excel.
- Experience of using reporting and data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, to maintain and enhance reporting outputs and dashboards.
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Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
- Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
- Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
- Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Selection Process Details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further Information
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Contact Point for Applicants
Name: Recruitment Team
Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in a new window).
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