Programme Office Support

Programme Office Support - (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: NDA

Location: Hybrid - up to 3 days a week on site either Sellafield or Whitehaven / Remote Working

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004.

We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London. We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.

As a Programme Office Support your main responsibilities will be

• Supporting the programme with the ongoing maintenance of the programme governance meetings including the setting up and alignment of key governance meetings, preparing agendas, recording minutes and actions and tracking these through to completion.
• Working collaboratively with key service providers to ensure programme management controls and reporting arrangements are fully aligned.
• Support with the development of specific aspects of programme management and benefits realisation and reporting arrangements, ensuring an integrated approach.
• Support with the development of the Benefits Management plans and associated documents/ maps/ decision calendars/ studies data.
• Timely and effective retrieval of key documents and information held within the programme document library as required.
• Support the establishment and ongoing maintenance of the programme baseline plan and apply effective configuration management and control across of all baseline documentation.
• Support programme assurance activities including the development of the programme Integrated Assurance and
• Approval (IAAP); and assurance reviews to monitor progress and update the Assurance Logbook.
• Support the application of the sanction and validation process and the collation of information and data to support programme and project business cases.
• Assist with the implementation of the risk and issue management process for the programme and collation and control of data on benefits realisation, including participation in risk reviews, meetings and workshops.
• Provide input to the programme report specifically in reporting progress on their activities/ workstreams in delivering end capabilities/outcomes.
• Support the development and production of a range of programme strategy documents and plans e.g., the 'Vision' statement. This includes the initial gathering and collation of information, setting up meetings with key contributors, facilitating or participating in workshops to develop the document content.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of the programme information management strategy and the setting up of the document control and configuration management arrangements for the programme.
• Develop, populate, and maintain the programme performance reports and dashboards.
• Support the programme with the engagement of internal and external stakeholders including the development of the stakeholder engagement and communications plan to assist with routine engagement meetings.
• Will be expected to act as a review team member/observer in PARs or SPERs.
• Review and update the rolling sanction schedule, sanction and validation plans.
• Support the development of data and analytics across the programme.
• Support the undertaking of benchmarking with other areas across the business/NDA estate to support programme delivery.
• Gather learning from experience (LFE) from other change programmes and applying this learning effectively.
• Sharing own experience to support programme management maturity in the wider Enterprise.

Essential Skills

• Experience in the support of large programmes within a government department
• Extensive experience of working in partnership with stakeholders at all levels
• Secretariat skilllset
• Microsoft office suite skillset with a focus on Powerpoint
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong self starter

Desirable Skills

• Experience with both Power BI and Visio would be highly beneficial

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Armed Forces Commitment

NDA guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, NDA guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

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In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.