Project Governance And Controls Manager

A project governance and controls manager is required help build ,co-ordinate and manage a small project support team, support the wider group of project managers and assist the programme manager to govern the delivery of large scale programme of digital technology projects

The project governance and controls manager will also work closely with commercial and procurement teams to facilitate successful procurement competitions to increase the scale and capacity of the T&D technical delivery teams and help manage budget and financial expenditure.

Essential experience

• Demonstrable evidence in the support and set up of PMO offices for government based projects in excess of £50 million
• In-depth understanding of all aspects of project management and control, including finances
• Good understanding of information technologies and services, and their development and support lifecycles, focusing on MS Azure platform and associated environments
• Embedding and evolve PCT/PMO capabilities
• Establish a new PCT/PMO capability.
• A background in programme/project management office, implementing industry standard best practice disciplines and alignment with central management office models.
• Experience of forming, establishing and integrating complex projects, ensuring that their scope, requirements, governance and controls, roles and responsibilities, interfaces and project success criteria are correctly and properly established and managed throughout to ensure effective and timely delivery.
• Experience of collaborating with sponsors and stakeholders, including reporting on progress at formal project reviews, to achieve the agreed outcomes and benefits
• Understands service delivery/operations to support programme end stage transition by project delivery transitioning into service operations and early life support
• Demonstrable experience of Business Process Improvement and business change deployment
• Experience of delivery through external suppliers, including successfully managing and negotiating on commercial and contract issues.