Project Management Office Support Officer

Job purpose and background

CDP is looking for an experienced PMO (Project Management Office) support officer who is passionate about supporting project and programme management.

As part of its strategic ambitions CDP has defined a set of transformation and project initiatives to realize its strategic goals of higher impact, improved stakeholder experience and disclosure information.

Successful execution of this portfolio of projects over the coming years is a priority of the Executive Leadership Team of CDP. To this end, we are strengthening our transformation and project delivery capability by setting up a new Project Management Office to help initiate, monitor and accelerate projects, act as a sparring partner to project owners and support CDPs Executive Leadership Team in respect of screening, selecting and prioritizing projects to define a project portfolio aligned with CDPs overarching strategy.

The PMO support officer will report to the head of the PMO.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the Head of PMO to lead the design and implementation of a common project management methodology, standards and tools to drive and facilitate the successful delivery of projects
• Support the Head of PMO to lead the execution of a PMO governance, reporting and review framework to provide a holistic view of all organisational project activity
• Ensure the agreed project management methods, standards and processes are maintained throughout the project lifecycle
• Develop and maintain the project library, filing, recording and reporting systems
• Co-ordinate the production of all project status reports and produce portfolio summary reports (dashboards).
• Set up and maintain systems for recording project and portfolio costs
• Define and document procedures in accordance with agreed methodology
• Advise and assist project team members in the application of project procedures, disciplines and recording and reporting standards.
• Maintain risk and issue logs and change control records
• Develop and support effective communication mechanisms between the project teams

Required skills and experience:

• Knowledge and experience of formal project management methodologies such as Prince II
• A high degree of computer literacy including advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite (i.e. MS Projects) and a willingness and skill to learn new programs quickly.
• Project planning ability
• Experience of working on IT/IS projects / programmes
• Ability to analyse and present information
• Experience with the implementation of new project governance, frameworks, processes, methodologies and tools
• Committed, result driven and self-reflective team player
• Affinity with NGO and related processes is an advantage
• Excellent writing, verbal and presentation skills in English

This is a grade 5 level full-time role which is based at CDP’s London office

Competitive NGO salary and benefits,30 days’ holiday excluding bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom.

Before you apply

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To apply please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘PMO support officer’ in the subject. The deadline is 6 PM London time on April 8.