Head of Portfolio

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About us:

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society. King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

Information Technology (IT) provides core IT infrastructure and application services in support of education, research and administration across the College on 5 main campuses based in central London. Everything IT does is designed to support one or more of the three critical capabilities enabling the College to achieve its strategic objectives. These are

• Excellent student experience
• Excellence in research
• Efficient administration

About the role:

The Head of Portfolio is responsible for the management of IT driven portfolios of change.

The successful candidate will be expected to build relationships across a wide stakeholder community and business partners, to ensure assigned portfolios of change are managed effectively and in alignment with the organisational strategy.

Portfolio management balances conflicting demands between change initiatives, working according to agreed frameworks to ensure resources are assigned based on organisational priorities and capacity, to facilitate achievement of the benefits identified.

The Head of 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. The Head of Portfolio assists 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.

The Head of Portfolio participates in relevant governance forums, agile ceremonies, and project meetings to ensure change is delivered efficiently and effectively.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you: (the candidate)

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
2. Proven experience of portfolio delivery including providing portfolio assurance and governance
3. Proven experience of translating business analysis, requirements definition and business case production into practical implementation
4. Portfolio Management qualifications/experience
5. Proven experience of project delivery
6. Good leadership skills and the ability to influence motivate and inspire others
7. Presentation skills and the ability to communicate confidently

Desirable criteria

1. Knowledge of contract lifecycles, vendor management and procurement
2. Waterfall or equivalent qualifications/experience
3. Agile certifications and/or equivalent qualifications/experience

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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.