Assistant Director IT for Portfolio Management
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- Location
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Birmingham
West Midlands RegionUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- 10% Market Supplement available
- Posted
- 07 Apr 2021
- Closes
- 14 Apr 2021
- Job Title
- Associate Director
- Category
- Information Technology
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Assistant Director IT for Portfolio Management
Information Technology
Closing Date: Monday 19 April 2021
Birmingham City University has a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to lead a great team through a period of anticipated growth and change. BCU as the University for Birmingham has ambitious plans to meet the needs of students from across the region and internationally and digital services play a critical role in providing a learning environment for those students to thrive.
With around 25,800 students from over 100 countries, Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student–focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state–of–the–art facilities, first–rate staff, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance is producing some of the country's most employable graduates.
We put GBP270 million into the regional economy and support thousands of jobs in the area. We're investing GBP260 million in our estate, including a major expansion of our city–centre campus at Eastside, providing students with an enviable range of facilities. The Complete University Guide ranked us as a top 30 UK university for spending on facilities in 2015.
Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we will work with each other. Our core values are Excellence, People focused, Partnership working and Fairness and integrity.
This opportunity is for someone who can develop, and deliver a rolling programme of technical change projects that support the university strategy, IT strategy and other university initiatives.
The Assistant Director IT for Portfolio Management is responsible for leading a team of internal and external project managers and builds strong relationships with project and delivery teams across the university.
You will lead the annual review of the IT project portfolio and take responsibility for updating the five–year capital forecast and take responsibility for the definition of new projects agreed as part of the portfolio, working collaboratively with the IT design team to ensure project scope is appropriate from a technical and delivery perspective.
You will optimise the portfolio to realise benefits in a workable and sustainable way to balance short, medium and long term investments. The role has responsibility for recruiting and maintaining an appropriate balance of internal and external project management resource to deliver the agreed portfolio.
You will take responsibility for defining a clear set of the lifecycle processes for IT portfolio and project management covering planning, communication, risk management, cost control, testing and quality management, project change control, handover to operations, business change and oversight.
An important part of the role is to oversee the closure of projects and ensures lessons learned are captured, shared and taken account of in open projects and take responsibility for the development and assurance of project business cases. You will build and maintain peer relationships across HE and other sectors and ensures BCU project management learns from best practice.
A successful candidate will have:
* 2.1 or better degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant technical subject
* Experience of managing multi–skilled project teams
* Holds practitioner level qualifications in project management, for example PRINCE2 or APM
* Practical experience managing the whole life–cycle and projects and programmes.
* Experience in creating an environment where good customer service is delivered
* Proven ability to negotiate with Executive Board stakeholders over project achievability and to set expectations positively
* Familiarity with different resource management techniques (including agile methods) and linking to project planning and resource management
* Proven leadership and management skills including change management methods to introduce innovation and new processes
Application process
As part of your application, please ensure you upload a CV and cover letter. You are advised, where possible, to remove personal details from your CV and cover letter such as your name.
Selection process
As part of the selection process, we want to really understand your skills, knowledge and experience and in order to maintain social distancing we will complete interviews via MS Teams. Also as part of the process we will be asking you to prepare a short presentation, to help us understand how you will prioritise your approach to the role.
Interview dates – 27th – 30th April 2021.
Email details to a friend
Apply Online
Further details:
* Job Description
The University is committed to internationalism and diversity and welcomes applications from all countries, faiths and backgrounds.
It is each individual successful applicants responsibility to ensure that they have permission to work in the UK. Some applicants may require sponsorship from the University and a visa from UKVI to take up the role if successful. More information on this can be found online.
Some roles are not capable of sponsorship because they do not meet the UKVI criteria relating to skill and salary level. If you are unsure as to whether you would require sponsorship if successful, or whether the role is capable of sponsorship, please contact us:
Please note on occasions where we receive a large number of applications, we may close the advert ahead of the publicised closing date. If this does happen, we will contact all candidates via email who have started but not yet completed their application, giving 48 hours' notice. We would therefore advise that you submit your completed application as soon as possible.
At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All staff are expected to understand and enact the University's commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do . This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and actively encourage unique contributions, in particular from under–represented groups in respect of age, disability, sex, gender or gender identity, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status
Birmingham City University ('BCU') is committed to protecting your personal data and being transparent about what we do with your personal data. One of the ways we do this is through our privacy notices
Information Technology
Closing Date: Monday 19 April 2021
Birmingham City University has a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to lead a great team through a period of anticipated growth and change. BCU as the University for Birmingham has ambitious plans to meet the needs of students from across the region and internationally and digital services play a critical role in providing a learning environment for those students to thrive.
With around 25,800 students from over 100 countries, Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student–focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state–of–the–art facilities, first–rate staff, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance is producing some of the country's most employable graduates.
We put GBP270 million into the regional economy and support thousands of jobs in the area. We're investing GBP260 million in our estate, including a major expansion of our city–centre campus at Eastside, providing students with an enviable range of facilities. The Complete University Guide ranked us as a top 30 UK university for spending on facilities in 2015.
Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we will work with each other. Our core values are Excellence, People focused, Partnership working and Fairness and integrity.
This opportunity is for someone who can develop, and deliver a rolling programme of technical change projects that support the university strategy, IT strategy and other university initiatives.
The Assistant Director IT for Portfolio Management is responsible for leading a team of internal and external project managers and builds strong relationships with project and delivery teams across the university.
You will lead the annual review of the IT project portfolio and take responsibility for updating the five–year capital forecast and take responsibility for the definition of new projects agreed as part of the portfolio, working collaboratively with the IT design team to ensure project scope is appropriate from a technical and delivery perspective.
You will optimise the portfolio to realise benefits in a workable and sustainable way to balance short, medium and long term investments. The role has responsibility for recruiting and maintaining an appropriate balance of internal and external project management resource to deliver the agreed portfolio.
You will take responsibility for defining a clear set of the lifecycle processes for IT portfolio and project management covering planning, communication, risk management, cost control, testing and quality management, project change control, handover to operations, business change and oversight.
An important part of the role is to oversee the closure of projects and ensures lessons learned are captured, shared and taken account of in open projects and take responsibility for the development and assurance of project business cases. You will build and maintain peer relationships across HE and other sectors and ensures BCU project management learns from best practice.
A successful candidate will have:
* 2.1 or better degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant technical subject
* Experience of managing multi–skilled project teams
* Holds practitioner level qualifications in project management, for example PRINCE2 or APM
* Practical experience managing the whole life–cycle and projects and programmes.
* Experience in creating an environment where good customer service is delivered
* Proven ability to negotiate with Executive Board stakeholders over project achievability and to set expectations positively
* Familiarity with different resource management techniques (including agile methods) and linking to project planning and resource management
* Proven leadership and management skills including change management methods to introduce innovation and new processes
Application process
As part of your application, please ensure you upload a CV and cover letter. You are advised, where possible, to remove personal details from your CV and cover letter such as your name.
Selection process
As part of the selection process, we want to really understand your skills, knowledge and experience and in order to maintain social distancing we will complete interviews via MS Teams. Also as part of the process we will be asking you to prepare a short presentation, to help us understand how you will prioritise your approach to the role.
Interview dates – 27th – 30th April 2021.
Email details to a friend
Apply Online
Further details:
* Job Description
The University is committed to internationalism and diversity and welcomes applications from all countries, faiths and backgrounds.
It is each individual successful applicants responsibility to ensure that they have permission to work in the UK. Some applicants may require sponsorship from the University and a visa from UKVI to take up the role if successful. More information on this can be found online.
Some roles are not capable of sponsorship because they do not meet the UKVI criteria relating to skill and salary level. If you are unsure as to whether you would require sponsorship if successful, or whether the role is capable of sponsorship, please contact us:
Please note on occasions where we receive a large number of applications, we may close the advert ahead of the publicised closing date. If this does happen, we will contact all candidates via email who have started but not yet completed their application, giving 48 hours' notice. We would therefore advise that you submit your completed application as soon as possible.
At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All staff are expected to understand and enact the University's commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do . This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and actively encourage unique contributions, in particular from under–represented groups in respect of age, disability, sex, gender or gender identity, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status
Birmingham City University ('BCU') is committed to protecting your personal data and being transparent about what we do with your personal data. One of the ways we do this is through our privacy notices