PMO Analyst - Part time

As the PMO Analyst you will work as part of the PMO Management Group to deliver the PMO Strategy providing governance services to the whole of ITS. You may line manage up to 2 Project Support/Collaboration Centre Support staff. These services should help ITS make the work being undertaken more visible, allow it to track its delivery, and assess its health and value. Using your coaching, training and communication skills you will support more junior members of the PMO deliver these objectives and also work alongside the rest of ITS. Previous experience in PMO/PSO based roles and excellent communication skills is essential for this role.What you'll be responsible for

• Training & Coaching - Training and coaching of Project Support Officers or Collaboration Centre Support Officers to ensure development of staff to provide a consistent level of support to work areas across ITS (Potential Line Management responsibilities). Supporting Project managers and Technical Delivery Leads.
• PMO Services, Processes & Guidance - Be versed in, and champion all ITS PMO processes and guidance. Own allocated PMO services ensuring they are developed, documented, reportable, maintained and administered as well as considering their continuous improvement. Continually review processes and delivery value adding continuous improvement activities.
• Good Governance Standards - Work with ITS Staff to ensure appropriate governance standards are maintained across the department and provide guidance and assistance to improve and support areas when required.
• Project Assurance - Healthchecks & Gateways - Administer or contribute to Healthcheck and Gateways pertaining to the PMO services, providing an assessment on the health of a work area within ITS. Articulating any risk of project/programme/portfolio delivery.
• Tools & Reporting - Consider how PMO governance processes can be reported, ensuring ease of data capture, collection of Portfolio level data, data structure and tools for reporting
Who you'll work with Internal
• ITS SLT
• Business Sponsors
• Programme Managers
• Project Managers/Leads
• Collaboration Centre Managers
• Delivery Partners
• All ITS team leads
• Project Support Officers/Collaboration Centre Support officers, This is a part time hybrid role working 2/2.5 days a week. The successful candidate will be required 1-2 days a week in the office, but can increase due to business demand.
  
  Prince2 Practitioner / Agile/Scrum/ or PMO related certification/experience
• Previous Project/PMO Analysis experience using PMI/PRINCE2 or other structured project delivery methodology essential
• Experience of implementing and maintaining governance processes within an established Programme/Portfolio team
• Significant experience of using software tools to plan and track work activities (MS Project Plans, MS Roadmaps, Backlogs, Azure DevOps)
• Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to facilitate workshops.
  
  Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company's required security objectives. We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve. In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for. Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions - Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found here!
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest. Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.