PMO Consultant
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Vacancy Type: Contract (PAYE)
Reference: RL6440
Location: Reading
Duration: 6 months
Rate: Circa £550/day
The Role:
A Project Management Office (PMO) Consultant is required to provide project support to a number of customer projects that require UK security clearance. The PMO Consultant will support project managers with a range of administrative activities, maintaining documentation and governance tools, contract and financial records.
Success will ultimately be measured on maintaining healthy delivery excellence KPI (timely status check-ins and ensuring no overdue risks, issues or findings), accurate financial forecasting and contract compliance.
Responsibilities / Experience Required:
The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be well organised, proactive and be willing to take initiative. Some of the weekly activities include:
• Updating internal and customer status reports and submitting on time.
• Maintaining status of risk and issue logs ensuring that they do not become overdue
• Creating financial forecasts, inputting these into financial management tools and investigating issues and discrepancies.
• Creating and processing simple contract amendments.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps is a plus as there will be a need to maintain risks, issues and dependencies.
• Ability to create draft status reports to support program and project managers.
Mandatory Skills:
• Ensure adherence to cost, schedule, and scope constraints, while focusing on the customer satisfaction
• Identify risks before they occur; develop and communicate relevant mitigation and avoidance strategies
• Excellent oral and written communication, both with external and internal stakeholders
Desirable Skills:
• Skills in Azure DevOps or equivalent, and Microsoft Project
• Create and maintain accurate forecast of cost/hours and ensure projects complete within approved budget
• Maintain delivery excellence by submitting weekly internal status reports
• Create, execute and maintain go-green plans for projects, with strong attention to details
• Travel to customer sites might be required (up to 25-50% travel expectations