We have an exciting Head of PMO to join our client's expanding team.

The Head of PMO's responsibilities include:-

• Contributing to the development and implementation of the IT Services strategic plans and developing and putting forward proposals for approval by Governance Committees.
• Leading the delivery of projects undertaken by IT Services to deliver new services to meet mission critical objectives in the organisation and IT Strategic plans.
• Leading the development and delivery of portfolio, project and demand management methods for all IT Services.
• Leading the IT Services Finance and Procurement function and also promoting Product Management and leading the central pool of Scrum Master resource.
• Making a significant contribution to the development of portfolio, project, and demand management methodologies across Professional Services and providing comprehensive advice and cascading expertise.

Candidates applying for this role should have the above experience together with the following:-

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent level qualifications), or extensive experience of working in a complex organisation plus substantial relevant managerial experience.
• Good broad knowledge and significant experience of managing a large and complex service in at least 1 key area of IT services (eg data centres, applications development/rollout, infrastructure change).
• Significant experience managing project teams and considerable project management experience with a successful track record in programme and project management.
• Experience of developing and implementing strategies for significant services, in line with high level organisational strategic objectives; including an understanding of working and communicating at a strategic level.
• Significant experience of leading change, with the ability to lead change effectively across a complex service.
• In-depth knowledge of applying different business change models is essential.
• Significant experience of leading systematic business process improvement and change initiatives.
• Ability to provide a positive leadership style that inspires others and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop effective and harmonious working relationships at all levels in an organisation.
• Ability to organise work flexibly and efficiently in a complex and pressured environment; prioritising and scheduling workloads in the face of conflicting demands.
• Ability to communicate straightforwardly, listening and responding constructively to the realities and needs of others.
• Ability to exercise a substantial degree of independent professional responsibility and discretion.
• Ability to lead and manage diverse groups of staff through intermediate managers.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write for different audiences and for different purposes, and to produce and analyse complex source material, information and data.
• Actively promotes equality and diversity to internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to use data to identify equality and diversity issues.
• Experience of developing interventions to address equality and diversity issues.
• Formal training in relevant techniques and methodology, particularly Prince2, MSP, Agile or APMP accreditation and membership of a professional project management body is highly desirable.