PMO Programme Planner

Working with a leading organisation in Birmingham in their search for a PMO Planner to join them on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. Paying £55,000 per annum +40 days annual leave + 15% pension - one day a week on site minumum requirement. 1. Define, develop and implement project planning standards and outline approach, ensuring programme and project planning capability maturity is developed across the breadth of the programme. 2. Facilitate the design and development of high level schematic roadmaps and detailed programme and project plans in collaboration with the programme or project managers/workstream leads, ensuring that all milestones and internal and external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored. 3. Ensure that plans are maintained and updated using forecasting to advise on potential missed milestones and dependencies, creating impact assessments to ensure that plans anticipate future developments where possible. 4. In collaboration with programme/project managers and workstream leads, ensure the range of plans (e.g. delivery, transitional, benefit and resource plans) are developed to ensure the effective delivery of the programme. 5. Analyse interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend appropriate action where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern. 6. Review programme and project/workstream plans against Business as Usual plans to ensure that change can be adopted effectively. Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience - Advanced level of knowledge and experience of Microsoft Project - Prince2 qualifications - Proven ability in the management of projects from inception to successful implementation, including the development of project plans, and the management of budgets, resources and timelines. - Ability to broker relationships with stakeholders at all levels, demonstrating the sensitivities required to balance and resolve the tensions in working with a wide range of contacts (both internally and externally at senior level). - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels, with both technical and non-technical audiences, and to simplify complex issues and concepts, both through presentations and through clear written documents. - Proven experience in shaping developments through active participation and leadership of project teams. - Strong analytical skills with proven experience of solving complex problems. - Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies and procedures are applied.