Planner

Job title: Planner (PMO)

Location: London - flexible working arrangements available. Mostly working from home with travel to London Victoria Office and Office in Thatcham

Start Date: ASAP subject to clearance

End date: Dec 2023

Hours per week: 37.5

Rate per hour: £40 - £45

Qualification required for this role:

Must have previous experience using MS Project and delivering in Project/Programme Planner roles

Notice Period to Contractor: 1 week

Notice Period to Atkins: 1 month

Clearance Required? Yes

Level: Silver required, NPPV3 preferable. If no NPPV3, we will put you through this clearance and any offers are subject to this clearance being confirmed

About the role:

This client requires a Planner with PMO experience to join their public sector clients. The consultant will be expected to provide the following:

Planning:

• Microsoft Project to an advanced level (formal and/or comparable experience)
• Create, review, maintain and administer Portfolio/Programme/Project schedules
• Identify and maintain dependencies across the delivery environment - often interacting with Agile delivery at Project level
• Input to and review of management products relevant to the schedules
• Support the schedule update process
• Carry out analysis and assurance activities
• Lead/facilitate planning workshops and training sessions
• Use an understanding of the aspects of both 'traditional' and Agile projects to advise on the most appropriate planning practices
• Support resource utilisation and planning analysis where appropriate
• Ability to deliver effective training and coaching sessions to aid adoption and maturity of planning practices
• Experience or knowledge concepts such as resourcing and resource levelling, progress measurement, earned value analysis, completion forecasting and status reporting
• Advise and support clients and colleagues on planning best practice and delivery methodology

General Consulting in PMOs:

• Understanding and experience of working in PMOs
• Understanding and experience of working across PMO functions: Change Control, Risk and Issue Management, Benefits Management, Governance, Reporting
• Consulting experience within client environments, ideally including government and potentially with knowledge of excellent practices from other sectors that can drive client business process improvement
• A solid understanding of one or more project and programme management methodologies
• Practical and formal experience of both waterfall and Agile planning principles and methods
• A current understanding and working knowledge of the latest trends in planning practices, including one or more Agile methodologies
• An understanding of Agile delivery tools
• An analytical thinker with creative and innovative problem-solving skills
• Proactively identify and progress opportunities to add value to strategic and tactical decision making
• Good Demonstrable report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to develop effective communication channels with key stakeholders
• Work as part of a team, sharing ideas and aiming for planning excellence

Qualifications

• Qualifications across the following are preferable: Prince2, Manging Successful Programmes, APM
• Qualifications in Planning is preferable

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