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PMO

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services requires a PMO based at their client’s offices in London.

You may be able to work some days remotely (Candidates should be okay to work from London post offices reopens)

This is a 6 month (minimum) temporary contract to start ASAP.

Day rate: Competitive market rate

We are looking for a PMO with 6+ years’ work experience using tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint etc.:

Key Responsibilities

The PMO acts as the right hand of project and programme managers. The activities of the PMO are centralized around resource and work planning & control, budget management, change management, reporting, and product quality control. This role may also include leading a small team of junior program control services members: schedule and assign work, set objectives, ensure quality, and provide motivation and feedback on performance.

The UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) Program is one of the key programs for 2023 and onwards where we are changing the way how we manage an end user client and moving away from domain joined client machine to Workspace One managed Windows Connect machines over the course of few years. This program will have multiple streams relating to technical and platform build, process and operate setup, migration, change and comm's along with external dependencies.

• To understand the Project Delivery Framework (PDF) and how to apply both Waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies within the framework.  
• Understand the key elements required to set up an IT project and work closely with PMs and other parties to ensure smooth set up. 
• Ensure PDF compliance through setting up appropriate repositories and data entries, maintaining quality data, and making sure that required deliverables are created, reviewed and approved.   
• Produce project reports and ensure that status reporting is fit for purpose, complete, timely, accurate, and communicated effectively. 
• Capture and track risks and issues.  Maintain change logs. 
• Examine project documentation/data for completeness and accuracy.
• Effectively use tools like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project, Visio), PPM, and required templates to create and manage project deliverables.
• Define and implement the PMO environment and toolset which is fit for purpose for a project.  Ensures effective usage of the toolset and that adequate processes, assurance, reporting, communication, data, etc. are in place. 
• Support the PM to define, sequence, and estimate resources, activities, and durations to develop a baseline schedule.  Track and manage activity progress, dependencies and deviations.  
• Support the PM to manage the resource plan, for example, through initiating project resource requests to suppliers and monitoring timecards. 
• Support the PM to create a project budget and work through approval processes to agree the budget.  Track, report on, and reconcile actual costs and revenues across the project lifecycle. 
• Proactively ensure project Assurance compliance. 
• Facilitate project meetings and track minutes and actions.
• Coordinate mandatory reviews and audits on schedule and according to procedure.  Track resultant recommendations and actions necessary to address shortcomings. 
• Facilitate meetings to ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and actioned. 
• Onboard new Project Managers to the Project Delivery Framework.  
• Manage the logistics and operations of the project Governance structure.  Support the PM to generate effective reporting and presentation material. 
• Advance IT discipline in PDF adoption through coaching others in its effective application.  Support PM and PMO staff to develop the critical skills and characteristics required for success in contingency, cost, resource, schedule, and risk management. 
• Drive contingency management and proactively control project costs and schedule through understanding and monitoring project risks and managing project resources and scope. 
• Develop and drive standard processes for cost/resource/schedule/risk management across large programme(s) and/or portfolio(s).

Key Skills

• Integration activities across multiple streams helping drive the integrated plan in Microsoft Project and manage the Plan with all interdependencies, critical task, milestones etc
• RAID & change log management
• Support building material ,for Governance meetings, such as POAP (Plan on a Page) from Integrated plan, dependency/risk/issue tracker for management from detailed tracker etc
• Tracking activities against planned work and deviations,
• Supporting PM's in the individual streams with similar activities to drive to an overall integrated view.
• Experience using tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint etc
• Work closely with Program Manager to setup, monitor & control and report on project activities
• Overal Project Delivery Compliance and Project Assurance
• Apart from this specific activities support in normal PMO work on financial management, resource plan, coordinating meetings, tracking minutes and actions and status reporting as needed.

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