Assurance Manager

Do you enjoy making a difference? Have a great understanding of projects? Have an eye for calling out issues and blockers in delivering successful strategic change?

Job Summary

The Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) is looking for an experienced Assurance Manager, to provide independent health checks across our portfolio of projects. These reviews will validate if  our projects are on track, are being  appropriately managed and continue to align to CCS strategy.  

The role includes managing a portfolio of projects and ensuring reviews are scheduled and delivered in a timely manner to meet the project’s objectives and benefits stated within the business case. There will also be the need, where necessary, to provide clear independent recommendations and work closely with the project to report on  these activities to aid a successful delivery.

Team Summary

The EPMO consists of  5 staff who work with senior leaders across CCS to influence the  Crown Commercial’s  portfolio of internal and external investments . They work closely with Strategy, Finance and the business to support projects, initiatives and external investments  from early scoping through to benefit realisation. They also provide assurance to the Executive Board on the health of the portfolio they are investing in.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for ensuring projects or activities have appropriate levels of assurance for the complexity of the project

• Management of pipeline of assurance activities in line with the  CCS Portfolio

• Management and delivery of RAID Reviews against CCS Portfolio to enable upward reporting and escalation to theExecutive Board

• Responsible for leading a number of assurance activities across either one or several projects

• Preparing and delivering health-check reports to Senior Responsible Officers (SRO) and internal governance groups

• Ensuring that agreed recommendations activities are implemented, and that any lessons learned are applied to future change initiatives

• Leads the timely and accurate reporting of integrated assurance plans and milestones to support departmental or board level assurance activities

• Planning and oversight of 3rd party audit actions (e.g Internal Audit) and tracking their completion

Essential Criteria (to be assessed on application):

• Detailed knowledge and experience of project/programme assurance or Internal Audit 

• Project and/or Programme Management qualification e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, Prince2, APM Practitioner qualification.

• Awareness of change control processes and how they are applied.

• Awareness of business change and implementation

• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to create a sense of community amongst the project/programme teams

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Final outcomes and lessons learned
• Project Life Cycle
• Understanding and using business cases

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

• Competitive salary 

• Generous pension scheme

• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus 

• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location

• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)

• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Explore fully how we will reward your work.

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and  customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.   CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Job contact :

• Name : The Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk