British CouncilHiring for Portfolio Management Office Analyst at Noida, Uttar Pradesh Full Time

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company: British Council

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other’s strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: Portfolio Management Office Analyst

Purpose of job:
This role is part of a small Portfolio Management Office responsible for the governance, assurance and reporting of the organisation’s investment portfolio. This portfolio is being expanded as part of a “rescue, renew and rebuild” transformation to grow the commercial base and increase operational efficiency and effectiveness.

The portfolio is global and valued at approximately £100m annually. It encompasses programmes and projects spanning all areas of the organisation including SBUs and corporate services. There is an emphasis on business change and successful adoption as well as on excellent financial and technical execution.

The purpose of this role is to provide high-quality PMO resource to carry out items in the Portfolio Management Office’s service catalogue including, but not limited to, programme analysis and assurance, dependencies and risk management, establishing a new reporting tool and ensuring quality monthly programme status reports are received.

Experience areas:
Minimum/essential

Multi-year experience of working in a portfolio or programme management office on business changes that impact multiple functions, business areas and regions.

Demonstrates the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to deliver agreed outputs to the required standards, on-time.

Understands the ‘soft-side’ of programme management and has experience of communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Proven experience developing relationships with different areas of the business, building collaborative relationships and driving up standards.

Understands the technical and other detail but is also able to translate that into business-friendly language when required.

Understanding and experience of non-financial benefits frameworks and how to apply them in practice.

Knowledge of:
Advanced user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.

Competent Microsoft Project user.

Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
(including people management and finance)

This role is a core part of the enhanced Portfolio Management Office team being built to ensure the organisation’s transformation is successful. It focuses on integration, dependencies and risks at portfolio level and also on assurance of individual programmes.

Leadership of the discipline and standards

Participates in the continuous improvement of portfolio and programme management good practice.

Acts as advocate for the Portfolio Management Office, positively promoting the business benefits of professional PMO services to the organisation.

Actively engages with others working in the PMO area in other functions and teams to help share learning, problem solve and build a community of practice that delivers value to The British Council.

Assurance

Contributes to / leads programme and business case assurance reviews on behalf of the Head of PMO.

Identify, monitor and ensure appropriate management of dependencies between elements of the portfolio.

Risk and compliance

Identify, monitor and participate in the resolution or mitigation of risks to components of the portfolio and provide appropriate management information and reporting on portfolio risk. Work with the organisation’s Enterprise Risk team as appropriate.

Analysis and reporting

Run the monthly programme status reporting process, ensuring good quality reports are received punctually from all programmes in the portfolio.

Establish a fit-for-purpose, resilient status reporting tool that will cope with the demands of the expanded portfolio.

Contribute to the authoring and collation of reports for submission to Investment Board, British Council management and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Pro-actively analyse portfolio-related information and provide actionable insight based on PPM experience and information analysis.

Benefits

Implement the non-financial benefits framework across the portfolio.

Provide independent assurance of benefits strategies and realisation plans.

Support the transition of benefits to BAU.

Qualifications:
Required:
Professional portfolio, programme or project management qualification(s), such as P3O, APMP, PRINCE2, MSP, PMI.

English Proficiency

Further Information:
Pay Band – 8

Contract Type – Indefinite

Department/Country – GIS/India – Noida

Closing Date – 06/Dec/2021

Other Requirements – Must have rights to work in India

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

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We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

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