Job Location: Flexible

London - £51,935 to £62,321

National - £47,885 to £57,463

36 hours per week - flexible working supported

Are you an experienced Project Management Office Manager?

Do you have experience of building a high performing PMO leading on the prioritisation, coordination and management of a broad range of corporate projects?

If so then we have an exciting opportunity for you to join the UKs largest Housing Association.

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Projects and working closely with the Senior Project Manager, you'll provide dedicated PMO services to the Corporate Services Directorate to enable the delivery of the Corporate Projects change portfolio.

You'll oversee a portfolio of service reviews, continuous improvement, strategic and business change projects (all non-technology), managing a high performing team of Project Coordinators and Business Analysts, ensuring projects are delivered to the required quality, on time and within budget. You'll act as first line assurance, bringing an independent voice on project delivery quality, defining project health check criteria and processes and embedding these across the team.

This is a superb opportunity to join a progressive team within an ambitious and rapidly evolving organisation. Initial priorities within the role will include:

• Working with the Senior Project Manager and wider team to design a flexible governance framework, ensuring it is fit for purpose and scaleable to the breath of projects within the teams responsibilities

• Embedding the approach to the people and assurance strategy project boards, providing assurance of our ability to deliver our strategies through the tracking of the critical path and management of programme risks/issues and dependencies

• Defining approach and leading all resource scheduling for the team

• Developing a skills matrix and development approach for the whole team

Due to the nature of the role, you must possess a proven understanding of the fundamentals that make up a PMO, including overall governance, quality assurance, reporting, risk management and resource tracking. You'll therefore have demonstrable experience working as a manager or similar in a PMO delivering complex multi-dimensional projects in a large organisation, managing risks, issues and dependencies within a complex programme.

If you're someone with excellent communication skills, a persuasive presenter and are capable of using these skills to influence senior stakeholders and customers, then we want to hear from you.

What you can expect from us

Here at Clarion we're dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle. As standard we offer;-

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates

• Initial 25 Days annual leave (plus bank holiday), increasing to 30 days after 3 years' service

• A flexible benefit scheme tailored to you, inclusive of dental insurance, restaurant card and cycle to work along with 1% of your salary to spend on whichever approved benefit you like!

• Matched pension contributions of up to 7.5%

• Flexible and agile working for the majority of our employees.

Other perks

• Company Bonus Scheme

• Eye care vouchers

• Holiday trading scheme allowing you to buy and sell leave

• Free counselling and legal advice scheme for you and your family

• Interest free loans for season ticket and study leave

Our commitment to equality and diversity means that we are keen to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, including but not limited to part-time working and job share, enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave, and compassionate leave.

For further details on this vacancy and to download the role profile please visit our website or click 'apply'.

Occasional travel may be required.

Closing Date: Wednesday 30th June 2021 at midnight.

CVs are being reviewed upon receipt - act quickly, apply today!

We reserve the right to close this advert early.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Clarion Housing Group

Clarion Housing Group is the UK's largest provider of affordable housing. We are committed to playing our part in tackling the housing crisis, both as a social landlord and developer of new housing.

More than 350,000 people call a Clarion home their home. Our mission is to provide and maintain good quality housing for our residents and to build communities through high quality design and placemaking.

We are a social business, reinvesting our profits into building new homes and providing support and opportunities to our residents through Clarion Futures, our charitable foundation.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want Clarion to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Clarion an inclusive place to work.