RAID Manager (London)

We are currently recruiting for a RAID Manager in London.

Pay rate: PAYE 435.10 per day/UMB 561 per day.

Contract duration: Temporary ongoing

Purpose:

Working within the Portfolio Management Office, the purpose of this role is to ensure effective management and escalation of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies at project, programme, and portfolio level.

The role holder will need to work flexibly in periods of high demand. Whilst sitting under the team structure of the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), the role holder acts as Centre of Excellence lead for Risk, Issues, Assumptions and Dependency Management and will:

• Provide support to projects or programmes to apply portfolio standards in identifying, tracking, and managing risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, including facilitation of workshops and internal upskilling.
• Work with portfolio and external stakeholders to develop the tools, templates, and guidance for RAID management at project, programme, and portfolio levels.
• Maintain Portfolio-level RAID controls.

Duties: 

Portfolio Management:

• Responsible on behalf of the Portfolio Office Lead for maintaining the national and London change portfolio RAID controls and assuring effective management.
• Ensure risks and issues (including any trends / patterns) are effectively escalated to the Portfolio Office Lead within an escalation process and criteria as defined by the Portfolio Office Lead.
• Ensure RAID reviews are held regularly at portfolio, programme, and project level, as appropriate.
• Provide RAID input into reporting, planning or benefits products, either at portfolio, programme, or project levels, nationally and regionally, as appropriate.

Centre of Excellence:

• Develop, maintain, and implement robust, effective and efficient RAID management approach and processes, and provide associated guidance and tools required, at portfolio, programme and project levels.
• Ensure consistent RAID management standards are applied across the national and London change portfolios, working with Project and Programme PMOs to achieve this.
• Work collaboratively with other portfolios of change and external stakeholders to identify where there are common risks, issues, and dependencies between portfolios.
• Use experience and lessons learned to provide best practice guidance to support successful delivery of the projects and programmes within portfolio.
• Provide RAID expertise at national and London portfolio level, and act as a ‘critical friend’, ensuring RAID controls are robust, realistic, and achievable.
• Maintain effective working relationships with Programme Managers, (Senior) Project Managers, Regional Change Managers, and others to ensure risk and issues management is embedded either at portfolio, programme or project levels, both nationally and regionally, as appropriate.
• Whilst sitting under the team structure of the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), the post holder could be tasked to directly support projects or programmes in periods of high demand, when requested, to provide hands on specialist support and advice to Programme and Project Managers in establishing and helping them manage effective RAID controls.
• Work closely with other roles in the PfMO, notably the Reporting and Planning Managers, providing cover to ensure resilience within the team.

Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with people at all levels.
• Good facilitation skills, with the ability to elicit information and agreement from different types of stakeholders.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Understanding and experience of risk identification, assessment, and management.
• Ability to analyse and use risk and issue information to support effective decision making.
• Highly organised and able to meet demanding deadlines in a pressured environment.
• Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
• Self-starter, confident and capable of working both independently and collaboratively to tight deadlines with plenty of initiative.
• Ability to analyse data and recognise trends that will enable decision making and using Microsoft Excel to analyse and present data.
• Strong IT skills, using Microsoft Products, especially Microsoft Excel.

Experience: 

Essential:

• Experience of risk and issue management in a project, programme or portfolio management environment and/or experience of risk management in a business environment.
• Understanding of the principles of risk and issue management, and the relevant tools and techniques.
• Experience of establishing and implementing risk and issue management processes in a project and/or programme or business environment.
• Experience of facilitating groups, balancing conflicting opinions, and building consensus as necessary.
• Experience of providing coaching and guidance to promote adherence to standards.
• Knowledge of and direct experience in applying programme and project management approaches such as MSP and PRINCE2.

Desirable:

• Experience of setting and delivering dependency management processes within a large programme or portfolio environment.
• Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing is essential.

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Management of Risk (M_O_R): Practitioner and/or recognised industry equivalent qualification
• P3O Certification (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices): Foundation
• Project Planning & Control: Foundation

Desirable:

• Prince 2 Foundation
• MSP Foundation

Apply online or contact Terri O’Keefe on 01925 377 878. You can also email terri@peelsolutions.co.uk  for more information on this role.