Application closing date 25/03/2019
Faculty / School or Service IT Services
Salary £26,250 to £35,222 per annum
Package As one of Coventry's biggest employers, we offer some pretty impressive benefits including an excellent pension scheme and generous holiday allowances.
Job category/type Professional Services

Job description

Since 2010 the Coventry University Group has undertaken an evolutionary transformation. Our focus on growth and continuous improvement in teaching, learning, research and internationalisation has seen the University rise rapidly in both the Guardian University Guide and in The Times Higher Education rankings.

Building on our success, our ITS 2021 strategy supports the Group's mission and values and highlights the strategic priorities for enhancing our education and student experience, our research, our role as a global University and our enterprise and innovation drive. Our recent transformation for IT Services at Coventry University has been designed to support these initiatives and provides an exciting and positive challenge for those who join the team.  As one of Coventry's biggest employers, we offer unparalleled opportunities within the organisation for career development and a competitive benefits package including pension schemes, generous holiday allowances, flexible working, a childcare vouchers scheme, great training, personal and professional development and discounted membership to the University's bespoke GBP 4m sport and recreation centre.

Role Purpose:

The Portfolio & Project Analyst will work within the Portfolio Office and be responsible for the provision of support and guidance on portfolio, and project management processes, procedures, tools, techniques and reporting. This will include the tracking and reporting of ideas/project progress and performance as well as facilitating all aspects of portfolio/ideas/project meetings, workshops and documentation.

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager, the role holder will have the responsibility of certain portfolio deliverables which may include resource management, reporting and/or portfolio planning and prioritisation.

The Portfolio and Project Analyst will understand project and programme management frameworks and will have experience in supporting the end-to-end delivery of one or more programmes of work. The role will report directly into the Portfolio Manager.

Person Specification:

You should be educated to HND level in a relevant discipline with a professional qualification or substantial experience in related field in lieu of the above.

With experience of working in a structured project delivery environment, you should also possess process rollout and embedding experience especially the implementation of Agile delivery frameworks.

You should have proven analytical, planning and execution skills along with the ability to work with colleagues to quickly resolve complex problems in the provision of IT services.

Portfolio financial tracking and reporting are essential along with administering tracking portfolio level RAID and actions logs.

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