PMO Manager at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The PMO Manager is a key member of the Portfolio Management Office team. This team is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for portfolio management within the organisation, across 60 Country and Regional offices and 29 Member organisations.

The PMO Manager will be the PMO business partner for a sub-set of the projects and Business Units within the Transformation Portfolio and is responsible for:

• Driving development and adoption of good practice
• Coaching Project Managers and Project Leads in the application Transformation Delivery Lifecycle and PMO controls to their projects, including stage gate preparation
• Oversight of projects’ delivery status, risks and issues and plans, ensuring effective management of interdependencies, and escalation and intervention to senior leadership as required.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Knowledge of project, programme, and portfolio management practices, standards, and methodologies.
• A minimum of five years of PMO experience in a senior analyst/manager role
• Exceptional leadership abilities.
• Excellent communication abilities, both written and vocal, fluent in written and spoken English.
• Paying close attention to the smallest of details and intricacies.
• Interpersonal and multitasking abilities are essential.
• Demonstrated experience working with global stakeholders across different levels of the organisation from a broad range of contexts
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with high levels of change and quick turnaround times, whilst delivering to the highest standards
• Experience in the use of project and portfolio management tools such as Project Online.
• Experience of supporting tools and good practice adoption.
• A proactive and solutions-orientated approach; excellent problem solving skills, and the ability to identify and implement solutions.
• Able to build strong relationships within the organisation and influence others.
• Flexible and pragmatic attitude to work, happy to support others to achieve team goals.
• Ability to work at pace while maintaining high quality standards.
• Confident user of standard Microsoft applications, including MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• A commitment to Save the Children values.

Desirable:

• INGO experience.
• A second language. Preferably French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic.