About the job

Job summary

The energy market situation in recent months is unprecedented. The record increase and volatility in global gas prices has put the energy market under severe strain and is putting upward pressure on customers’ energy bills. Now more than ever we need to go further and faster in pursuing the country’s climate goals and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to protect ourselves from similar future price shocks.

Such challenging times require bold action. We are looking for people to meet the challenges we face head-on, and help us deliver a greener, fairer energy system.

You will be someone who:

• Thrives in a flexible fast-paced environment with a proven background of delivering benefits for consumers, communities, or society, in a role across a range of project management methodologies including waterfall and agile, digital transformation, commercial analysis, compliance and risk management.
• Champions our culture of inclusion and encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues, fuelling our innovation and ensuring we best represent the consumers and the communities we serve.

Team Purpose and Role 

• Successful candidates will initially be deployed in the Markets Division.  The Division comprises three Directorates: Enforcement and Emerging Issues, Financial Resilience & Controls and Consumer Protection & Retail Markets.  There are 14 Portfolios across the three Directorates, each Portfolio is led by a Deputy Director.  You will be deployed to either the central PMO team or aligned to a Portfolio.
• You will have the opportunity to work flexibly across the Markets Division and Ofgem on a range of projects or may have a longer deployment within a team where you have in-demand specialist skills, knowledge, and expertise.

Job description

This role will focus on Governance and Reporting. 

• Lead on the Governance and Reporting capability across Markets, including development of frameworks and processes to ensure this operates effectively.
• This will include implementation of a revised governance structure and a review of the reporting provision needed to enable this. You will also develop and lead a roadmap to mature our capabilities in these areas.
• Manage the Markets Change & Delivery Board, including associated reporting and insights to support evidence-based decision making.
• Lead on all Markets level reporting, including the quarterly Strategic Performance Reporting to executive committees.
• Provide oversight and assurance across a Directorate area, including oversight of planning, milestones and risk – working with the Head of PMO and embedded PMO’s in that area.
• Actively engage with the wider Project Management and Delivery professional network to ensure sharing of best practice, building of capability, and promote continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Project manage a large programme of work or a number of projects within either a central PMO function, portfolio or team setting.
• Establish and maintain up-to-date delivery plans, identifying and managing milestones, creating visibility of key decision points and dependencies within the central planning tool.
• Responsible for ensuring the organisation’s project management processes are followed and all required project documentation is maintained including having appropriate business cases and project initiation documents in place for the work being delivered.
• Ensure there is a clear up to date picture of resource across the portfolio by maintaining the central Resourcing Tool.
• Deliver accurate and timely reporting for senior colleagues, programme SROs and decision makers as required.
• Ensure effective risk management and assurance processes are in place, and a drumbeat for the regular review of risk across the Portfolio feeding into and adhering to the central risk processes.
• Overall responsibility for engaging with and providing information, as required, to the central PMO team.
• Champion & validate use of PMO tools across the Portfolio including the Decisions Log & Action Tracker.
• Actively engage with the wider Project Management and Delivery professional network to ensure sharing of best practice, building of capability, and promote continuous improvement.

Person specification

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Review and maintain:

• Plans (including PoaP)
• Resource tool (via Resource Project/Team Leads)
• MI Report
• Highlight Reports (for projects)
• Risk Register (Portfolio level)
• Governance for Portfolio or project
• Assurance process and outputs
• ePMO Portfolio Management Framework documentation
• Action Tracker
• Decisions Log
• Central Ofgem Decisions Recording System (DRS)
• Attend weekly and ad-hoc PMO team meetings

Key Stakeholder Relationships

• Markets Change and Delivery Deputy Director
• Portfolio Deputy Director
• Head of PMO
• Governance and Reporting Lead
• Risk, Planning, Benefits and Assurance Lead
• Finance, Procurement and Resourcing Lead
• Markets Project Support Officers
• Portfolio/Project/Team Leads

External

• N/A

Role Criteria

In the event of receiving a large number of applications an initial sift may take place on just the identified lead criteria indicated below.

Essential

• Experience of leading or managing a large project or programme or multiple projects, including planning and producing detailed delivery plans [LEAD].
• Have experience of managing and reporting on risks and issues within a project environment.
• Ability to deliver and change direction in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build effective relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, building capability and confidence with the programme and projects.
• Excellent organisational, written and verbal communication skills that effectively communicate complex issues to non-expert audiences with attention to detail.

Desirable

• Experience of a range of project management techniques, including agile and waterfall.
• Agile, Prince2, MSP or P3M certification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,614, OFGEM contributes £12,316 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.