• Responsible to the Senior Lead – Waste Services Portfolio and Programmes, in sanctioning change initiatives for inclusion in the Portfolio / Programmes.
• Ensuring the Portfolio delivers the departmental strategy.
• Working with senior managers/ directors/ SROs, P3M delivery managers to implement the Portfolio framework.
• In conjunction with the business owners and the delivery teams, creating strategies for effective planning, monitoring and delivery of the portfolio objectives.
• Assuring the overall integrity and coherence of the portfolio.
• Maintaining close relationships with other key business initiatives to ensure that there are no overlaps.
• Providing an ongoing health check of the Portfolio by reassessing whether Programmes and Projects continue to meet strategic objectives.
• Scanning the horizon for potential policy changes or initiatives and informing projects and programmes of changes.
• Providing strategic oversight support for the Portfolio Board.
• Liaising with the EPMO to successfully deploy P3M frameworks, templates and procedures, creating a balance between the tailoring of such frameworks and procedures to suit the needs of the portfolio, whilst maintaining adherence to company P3M standards and best practice.
• Keeping abreast of new P3M tools and techniques.
• Balancing P3O team workload including setting deadlines, prioritising tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
• Developing and maintaining robust relationships with all parts of the business, as well as with the Portfolios, Programmes and Projects, to ensure effective stakeholder management.
• Setting P3O team objectives, evaluating team performance, and continually improving the P3O service.
• Supporting the establishment of Programme and Project Baselines (scope, cost, schedule and risk).
• Driving the development, implementation and updating of Programme and Project resource plans, taking account of skills, availabilities, and scheduling.
• Organising and/or undertaking PPM assurance reviews as required, including supporting audit and assurance reviews by providing technical expertise, as required.

Experience Required

• Relevant experience in a P3O
• Demonstrate an ability to identify potential problems/risks or opportunities, analysis issues and develop solutions to mitigate problems/risks and exploit opportunities
• Working knowledge of best management practices applicable to, or interface with this role e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes etc
• Leads and motivates desired behaviours (e.g. coaching the P30 team and mentoring one or more individuals).
• Exhibits demonstrable qualities in providing vision, motivation and inspiration, setting high standards and expectations, leading by example and holding the Team to account.
• Proven ability to manage and prioritise own workload against multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Can demonstrate having the ability to proactively engage and impact on others and work effectively as part of a wider team.
• Ability to ensure minimum standards and fundamental process requirements are maintained when under pressure to deliver and ability to challenge others at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of the 5 case business case models / strategic environment in which projects/ programmes operate
• Working within the Nuclear Industry or similar regulated environment.
• An understanding and experience of Government programme / Project Delivery expectations
• Familiarity with Nuclear Decommissioning Authority working practices.