Version 1 is an organisation delivering impactful changes to help our customers navigate the rapidly changing digital-first world.

We’ve got over 3000 empowered and driven individuals with over 25 years’ experience of delivering excellence to our customers. Version 1 builds outcome focused relationships sustaining a 98% retention rating.

This career is within our Delivery Assurance team. As the Delivery Assurance PMO you will help to establish, develop, and maintain project management standards and processes.

You’ll drive consistent methodologies, contribute towards continuous improvement of processes and procedures to ultimately ensure excellence in our delivery to all our customers.

Achieving our customer success ambition is fundamentally based on the excellence of the solutions we deliver. We have a huge amount of talent in our delivery function and to support them and ensure a consistent customer experience we must apply world class methodologies and processes in a consistent way across Version 1.

This role will report directly into the Director of Delivery Assurance and work closely with the DA team to develop, establish and maintain project management standards and processes. Drive consistent methodologies, adherence to and continuous improvements within our processes and procedures to ensure excellence in our delivery to all our customers.

The ideal candidate should have Project Management & PMO experience and needs to be personable with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of an organisation including senior stakeholders. 

• Supporting the Heads of Delivery Assurance and Delivery Assurance Principals to drive governance and oversight across the project portfolios
• Facilitation of weekly RAID & RAG review meetings with the Project Managers, Delivery Managers & Senior Management team.
• Maintenance and management of the project portfolio weekly status reporting pack (Delivery Assurance Dashboard).
• Creation and development of reports for senior management team
• Development of the Delivery Assurance framework in alignment with the Delivery Assurance roadmap
• Actively participate in various steering groups across the project landscape.
• Ability to take on Project Management initiatives on an ad hoc basis as and when required;
• Performing audits and Ensuring Process Awareness within the Practices.
• Ensuring Project Managers and Delivery Managers follow timely and accurate reporting on the weekly projects’ dashboard, for those projects that fit the criteria
• Facilitating the weekly Delivery Assurance meetings and distributing the actions and decisions from this meeting
• Supporting the Delivery Assurance team in performing Project Management inductions, including ensuring that all relevant processes are communicated and explained for New or Acquired project managers.
• Review and rebuild the project management induction pack for new starters
• Support the identification, creating and implementation of new processes, procedures or methodologies as required by the business to enhance our delivery capability
• Ensuring that lessons learned are performed at the end of all the projects, documented and communicated to the rest of the practice community for inclusion in any future similar estimations, implementations, processes to further improve our delivery capability
• Assisting the Head of Delivery Assurance and Delivery Assurance Principals in performing project health checks on the more complex projects within their practice

• Experience of Project Management (Prince2/PMP)
• 3-5 Years of experience
• Experience using various Project Management tools (MS Project/Jira/AzureDevOps etc)
• Should have experience between 3-5 years working as PMO.
• O365 suite, in particular, Excel, Power BI and SharePoint
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile Delivery
• Highly motivated
• Outstanding 'people' skills
• Strong commercial awareness
• Have excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills

You have a choice of working remotely in the UK, Republic of Ireland or Ireland or hybrid at a Version 1 office location near you.

Version 1 also offer: 24 days annual leave, also available: Maternity/Paternity Leave, Shared Parental Leave, Reproductive Leave, Wedding Leave, Special Leave.

Employer contributed pension, Life Assurance, Free Eye Tests, and Sick Leave.

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging is embedded into the core of our organisation, and as such we ensure that equal opportunity is present in our recruitment practices.

We do not stand for any discrimination based on gender identity, race, ethnicity, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic.

Bringing your difference makes a difference at Version 1; and we encourage you to do so.