Interim Assurance & Standards Manager (Band C)

Job Ref: MPS 0005 B3CA / 1

SC Clearance 

This role is for a leading London Police organisation, candidates with current CTC/SC clearances will go through their vetting processes, currently this is taking up to 6 months.  If you are already in a contract that potentially is not ending for a few months and this role is of interest, do let us know, we would be happy to discuss further.

Hybrid role

The Assurance & Standards Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management and implementation of the Assurance Approach providing independent assurance of the Projects and Programmes to the Governance Boards. This includes ensuring that they are viable; from a leadership, quality, financial, information management, risk, governance, benefits, resource management perspective and they adhere to set standards. The post holder will support implementation of a robust and independent assurance management approach and be involved in both integrated and consequential assurance activity to deliver it.

Key responsibilities:

• Assure projects and programmes apply the appropriate assurance methodology, from reviewing business cases and supporting documentation at stage gate reviews to delivering tailored health checks and deep dive reviews.
• Maintain a Portfolio wide approach to Learning Lessons and assisting project and programmes to identify lessons by ensuring alignment to the lessons learnt approach;
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to maintain assurance tools and templates, update the Assurance Approach in line with best practice and deliver and facilitate training.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure Assurance and Lessons Learnt remain a key area of focus.

“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:

Desirable qualifications:

• Management of Risk (MoR): Foundation.
• PRINCE2: Foundation.
• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP): Foundation.

Experience & Knowledge:

• Experience of undertaking assurance reviews, either in a Programme or in a significant project management delivery environment, to influence decision makers, develop solutions and improve performance or direct experience in applying programme and project management approaches such as MSP and PRINCE2.
• Experience of applying PPM methodologies in a project, programme or portfolio environment.
• Understanding of the principles of assurance within a Project or Programme management environment, using the relevant tools and techniques.
• Experience of facilitating groups, balancing conflicting opinions, building consensus as necessary.
• Experience in the analysis and improvement of processes and/or practices.
• Experience of providing coaching and guidance to promote adherence to standards.

Skills:

• Ability to provide evidence-based assessments and recommendations for improvement from the assurance of projects and programmes.
• Ability to provide effective challenge to support assurance of projects and programmes.
• Ability to support people with limited knowledge of effective assurance management within projects and programmes.
• Strong attention to detail, ensuring that products are accurate and contain the necessary information to support effective decision making.
• Good planning and organisational skills and ability to meet demanding deadlines in a pressured environment.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively and tactfully with people at all levels.
• Good facilitation skills, with the ability to elicit information and agreement from audiences of varying backgrounds.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written, across all levels including stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
• Self-starter, confident and capable of working both independently and collaboratively to tight deadlines with plenty of initiative.
• Strong IT skills in the use of Microsoft Products.

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing.
• Experience of working with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).
• Understanding and experience of the HMT Green Book.

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