Description
ISS Defence as a Platform (DaaP) Project Controls Support - Contract - 22 Months.
Our Client is the Ministry of Defence, we work with the MOD on multiple projects, we seek and experienced Project Controls Delivery focused person.
Delivery Manager
Summary of the work:
There is a requirement to provide direct support to the Defence as a Platform (Daap) (Base) Joint Planning Office Project Controls Team in the scheduling, risk management and reporting of activities in the NSoIT, Integrated User services and Global Connectivity Programmes.
Latest start date: Tuesday 27 March 2018
Expected contract length: 11 months. With a further option to extend by 11 months pending financial approval.
Location: Corsham Wiltshire
Who the specialist will work with:
Civilian and Military staff, Contractors within the Joint Project Office (JPO), New Style of IT (NSoIT) Base, Integrated User Service (IUS) and Global Connectivity teams.
What you will work on:
Creation of the Defence as a Platform (Base) common schedule. Maintain & update the joint programme schedule. Monitor & track progress against the baselined schedule on a weekly basis, updating schedule activity progression as appropriate & completion of milestones.
Establish common approach to identification & management of risks, to cover both risks to individual and joint programmes. Supporting and facilitating risk identification, aggregation and analysis workshops. Development of risk response plans. Monitoring performance of risk management. Informing decisions of qualitative and quantitative analysis of cost and schedule risks when required. Providing input to Risk Governance Reviews.
All tasking will take place from MoD Corsham and you are required there 5 days a week, the working day is 8 hours to include 30 minutes for lunch. this individual will report to Rebecca Dixon.
IR35: Applies - You would have to work through our umbrella organisation to be compliant but if you chose to you can still work via your limited company.
* Security clearance SC: must be in place prior to the contract starting due to the projects the individual is required to work with..*
Skills and experienceOpportunity attribute nameOpportunity attribute valueEssential skills and experience
- Expert level user of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution with particular emphasis on management of cross-project dependencies,schedule baselining & tracking.
- Management of Risk (M_o_R) practitioner (or equivalent); ability to identify, analyse, evaluate & manage cross-cutting programme risks.
- Workshopping; ability to lead small to medium-sized groups of stakeholders to extract relevant schedule and risk information to feed into joint schedules and risk registers.
- Reporting; ability to effectively extract relevant project and risk information to provide senior management reporting.
Essential skills and experience
- Expert level user of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution with particular emphasis on management of cross-project dependencies,schedule baselining & tracking. (25%)
- Management of Risk (M_o_R) practitioner (or equivalent); ability to identify, analyse, evaluate & manage cross-cutting programme risks. (15%)
- Workshopping; ability to lead small to medium-sized groups of stakeholders to extract relevant schedule and risk information to feed into joint schedules and risk registers. (10%)
- Reporting; ability to effectively extract relevant project and risk information to provide senior management reporting (15%)
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Ability to understand programme objectives and proactively link these to scheduling and risk management functions
- IT literate, with experience of using Microsoft office 365 (including Sharepoint) and MOSS
Cultural fit criteria
- Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers.
- Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions.
- Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes
- Take responsibility for their work
- Share knowledge and experience with other team members