1. Drive the identification and management of benefits realisation, working with project executives to ensure these are delivered.

   • Ensure a robust process for identifying benefits at project initiation is embedded and that changes to the scope, timeline or cost of a project are reflected in the benefits realisation plan.
   • Work with project executives to support them in realising benefits, ensuring that all the requisite steps form part of the relevant project.
   • Work with finance to ensure cash-releasing benefits are reflected in the efficiency plan.

2. Provide strategic input to the development of the corporate strategic plan, based on engagement with stakeholders and understanding their requirements.

   • Engage with stakeholders to identify how data and digital capability can support their effectiveness and use that understanding in the development of the next corporate strategic plan.

Essential:

• Professional qualification such as Managing Successful Programmes or member of the Association of Project Management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of programme and project methodologies (PPM): and ability to lead on, represent and be an advocate for a range of PPM tools and techniques, being innovative and keeping up to date with the latest trends. You have experience of iterating working practices to achieve effective delivery and of having successfully led teams through the full product cycle, identified which tools and techniques should be used at each stage, identified and dealt with risks across or between all stages of the product life cycle.
• Governance: you have demonstrable experience of programme and project governance and advocate for it across the team, ensuring appropriate assurance to stakeholders including the Executive and the Board.
• Planning: you can use a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping. You have experience of using plans to identify risks and issues and ensuring these are mitigated or resolved.
• Team dynamics and collaboration: you have experience of coaching within and outside of the team, and in ensuring the overall welfare/wellbeing of the team, recognise how people best work together, enhance team performance, create an open and collaborative environment to work in and ensure that their work is understood by stakeholders.
• Maintaining delivery momentum: you have expertise in solving issues and unblocking problems, you drive teams and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. You have a proven track record of managing various dependencies across teams.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical: you can communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully react and respond to challenges, even in constrained timescales.
• Financial and commercial management: you can report on financial delivery, monitor cost and budget, and create a programme forecast. You have experience of delivering with a third party and navigating the commercial considerations that entails, including identifying and working with colleagues to resolve commercial conflict.
• Delivery Service partner management: you can manage and hold to account external digital services partner that comprises of a programme manager, technical team and project managers. You have experience in managing a third party delivery partner and proven experience of managing risks, dependencies whilst overcoming blockers to ensure an on time, in budget programme delivery.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of central government controls, digital strategy, the Better Regulation principles, government functional standards relating to programme and project management.
• Experience of developing a data and digital strategy and ability to think strategically.
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions such as Software as a Service and Platform as a Service, preferably Azure.
• Exposure to and an understanding of infrastructure, communications, and security technologies.
• Experience of operating at senior leadership level in an organisation, with the ability and experience of building strong, positive working relationships.

Benefits:

• Alongside your salary, Security Industry Authority contributes towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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• A welcoming and innovative work environment.
• Continued support and development opportunities.
• Access to training for attainment of recognised qualifications.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Annual leave entitlement will be 27.5 days, rising by one additional day for every two years of service up to a maximum of 32.5 days.
• A variety of discounts including Gymflex.

Civil Service Pension Scheme – employee contribution between 4.60% and 7.35% and employer contribution between 28%.

Things you need to know:

Criminal Record Check

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service / Disclosure Scotland on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.

If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing PreEmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

National Security vetting

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5-years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.