King’s college london
Head of Transformation Portfolio
Job Description
Job id: 102825. Salary: £63,596 – £72,757 per annum, including London weighting allowance.
Posted: 10 January 2025. Closing date: 02 February 2025.
Business unit: Transformation Office. Department: Transformation Office.
Contact details: Zoe Fearnley. zoe.fearnley@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About Us
The Head of Transformation Portfolio role sits within the Transformation Office Directorate.
The Transformation Office (TO) supports the senior leadership of the university in effective strategy execution, delivering a complex set of transformation initiatives and driving sustainable improvements to our core business.
About the Role
The Head of Transformation Portfolio role sits within the Transformation Office Directorate. The Transformation Office supports the senior leadership of the university in effective strategy execution, delivering a complex set of transformation initiatives and driving sustainable improvements to our core business.
The Head of Transformation Portfolio is responsible for monitoring and managing assigned portfolios by:
Establishing and guiding the selection, prioritisation, balancing, and termination processes for portfolio components to ensure alignment with organisational strategy
Assisting decision makers with the review, prioritisation, and optimisation of the portfolio
Ensuring timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on progress, impacts, and changes associated with management of the portfolio
Participating in programme and project reviews to ensure delivery to scope, time and budget.
This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Proven experience of portfolio delivery including providing portfolio assurance and governance
- Proven experience of translating business analysis, requirements definition and business case production into practical implementation
- Portfolio Management qualifications/experience
- Proven experience of project delivery
- Good leadership skills and the ability to influence motivate and inspire others
Desirable criteria
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Agile Scrum Master and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
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Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
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