AMS PSR

On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we are looking for a Programme Planner and Scheduler (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract which is a hybrid role so does required 1 day a week in the nearest office location either Bristol, Glasgow or London

Cabinet Office Digital is conducting a broad technology transformation programme valued at over £50 million to build a new secure, modern and flexible OFFICIAL IT platform for over 10,000 personnel.

As a Programme Planner and Scheduler for the programme, you will work closely with stakeholders to ensure all aspects of the project are defined, providing clarity on key milestones to define what, when and how activities will be organised to ensure the outcomes of a project can be achieved, with the resources available. You will lead on all aspects of project planning, which will include the development, updating and monitoring of plans and schedules, identifying tasks, activities, interdependencies and outputs for the project and work with the project team to track and monitor progress against the plan throughout the life of the project.

As a Programme Planner and Scheduler, your main responsibilities will be:

• Delivery & Leadership – Lead on planning activity and work with the programme to support delivery of the business case benefits and outcomes. Support capability building and the use of best practice in planning and reporting. Provide expert advice for team members and project community.
• Project Planning – Challenge and test project assumptions to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable. Develop breakdown structures, quality criteria, product descriptions and monitoring strategy. Support the programme manager to identify options to optimise delivery through resource smoothing, resource levelling and rescheduling of activities.
• Stakeholder Management – Ensure that stakeholder responsibilities and needs are understood and addressed in reporting arrangements. Develop peer networks across the department.
• Project Performance & Controls – Monitor and analyse information, reporting progress, slippage and highlighting areas of risk and opportunity.
• Guidance & Support – Provide expert advice on planning processes throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Essential Skills

• Detailed knowledge and significant practical experience of planning, including the production of broad plans incorporating risk and quality to provide a consolidated overview of a project.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of scheduling with the ability to develop, produce and maintain schedules for activities that take account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of benefits.
• Proven risk & issue management ability to systematically identify and monitor risks & issues and maintain risk registers.
• Experience in understanding and governance, frameworks and methodologies to clearly define roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and support approval routes appropriate to each stage of the project to monitor project progress and compliance Enable a consistent and efficient approach to delivery at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Significant experience of stakeholder engagement and the ability to systematically identify, analyse and communicate with stakeholders, using appropriate channels, to ensure all those impacted by the change are engaged, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Experience of change control and the ability to understand protocols to manage and document all requests that alter the scope of a project, including, the capture and evaluation of any requests.
• Experience of analysing management information; identifying patterns or themes and extracting the key data to provide valuable intelligence and insights for senior management.
• Demonstrable experience of making effective decisions using data and or insights as supporting evidence.
• Experience with MSP - Managing Successful Programmes for planning

Desirable Skills

• Experience of supporting complex projects in a fast paced, multi-disciplinary agile and/or digital environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the public sector and government processes.

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

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, The Cabinet Office 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Cabinet Office 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. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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".