AddressGrade B - £39,390 (National Framework) or £ 44,792 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week or compressed hours/job share will also be considered.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 7th July 2024 at 11.59pm
Home-based with regular meetings in London, Newcastle or Leeds office
This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us, make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.
Why this could be a great role for you….
You will join a small, high performing team of change professionals, working across the organisation to drive priorities and standards of programme and project delivery. You will work closely with a professional community across the organisation delivering all types of change in a recently transformed digital service-based environment.
As a geographically dispersed organisation, we work remotely day to day, but recognising the value and importance of team collaboration and face-to-face contact, you would be expected to travel to one our office locations at least twice per-month.”
In the role you would lead on developing and overseeing the effective use of best practice management controls as applied to our portfolio of change programmes and projects. Specifically, you will be the organisations subject matter expert on risk and issue management, ensuring that all our change activity are proactively seeking out and managing risks as part of their routine approach, and that issues are handled swiftly and effectively in line with tolerances and specified levels of delegated authority. Working at the portfolio level you will be responsible for tracking and managing risks and issues, for driving out and testing assumptions and for controlling dependency between programmes. You will also assess and manage the impact of change at the portfolio level.
Working as part of our Standards and Assurance function you will act as a single point of contact on the application of RAID and other management controls, but you will also work closely with Portfolio Management colleagues responsible for planning, financial management and resource management. You will be a strong team player capable of building open and effective relationships with our more senior change leaders, establishing yourself and representing the wider team as a champion of best practice.
What we can offer you...
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
We want to support you to succeed and be your absolute best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
What you will bring…
Experience of operating risks, issues, and Controls activity within a project and/or programme environment
Good knowledge of a wide range of programme/project methodologies and demonstrable experience of applying them appropriately in different contexts (e.g., PRINCE 2, AGILE).
Experience of improving performance by coaching individuals to work differently and through embedding new practices and standards.
Tenacious, with an eye for detail and ability to pre-empt and solve problems.
An ability to influence senior stakeholders with wide ranging and often competing priorities.
Essential Qualifications
- P3O Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
For further information on the Accountabilities and Responsibilities please click this link for the JD:
Portfolio Raid and Controls Manager -JD.docx
For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Keith Wear, Programme Office Practice Manager via email: keith.wear@cqc.org.uk
Individual adjustments...
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@cqc.org.uk
CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
Our Values
Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can
