Digital Services Business Change and Portfolio Delivery Manager

Job overview

The Business Change and Portfolio Delivery Manager will be responsible for overseeing digital project delivery, change and transformation, including the identification, monitoring, tracking, and realisation of benefits. This role involves engaging with colleagues to facilitate user co-design of new processes and ensuring change assurance by aligning change management functions across digital, clinical, and Trust services. The post holder must ensure compliance with NHS technical standards and will have accountability for staff, including line management and professional supervision of digital change delivery staff, as well as occasional matrix management of digital portfolio project staff. They will also act as the Deputy Head of Digital Transformation and will manage relationships across Digital Services to provide an excellent Programme Management service

Main duties of the job

To develop comprehensive programme plans and capacity management reports

To provide effective Programme and portfolio Management, ensuring the coordinated implementation of a number of projects that impact across the Trust

Resolve issues that arise as part of the programme management process, handling complex, sensitive and contentious information in an appropriate manner.

Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communications for managed projects.

Produce progress reports as required.

Prepare and present project updates and progress reviews to senior level meetings across the Trust and to other stakeholder groups as required, maintaining Programme Plans, Gantt charts and process maps.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Management of interdependencies within projects
• Identification of risks and issues and their effective management
• Contribution to the development of the Digital Strategy
• Leading multiple Workstreams and ensuring that programme deliverables and timescales are met
• Providing appropriate support to Project Workstreams to ensure the benefits of the investment are realised
• Working closely with managers, clinicians, and operational staff to ensure a wide understanding of, and commitment to, the relevant Programme
• Participation in groups linked to the delivery of the Programme, such as Digital Group and Corporate Systems Working Group
• Developing project change control procedures and ensuring that effective change control procedures and documentation are implemented and monitored
• Managing capital and other agreed budgets, ensuring good financial control and maintaining records at all times
• Presenting complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large groups in the form of presentations
• Negotiating with and motivating on project delivery, including linking in with other initiatives
• Develop comprehensive programme plans to ensure the coordinated implementation of multiple projects that impact the Trust
• Resolve issues that arise during the programme management process, handling complex, sensitive, and contentious information appropriately
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communications for managed projects
• Produce progress and expenditure reports as required
• Prepare and present project updates and progress reviews to senior-level meetings across the Trust and other stakeholder groups, maintaining Programme Plans, Gantt charts, and process maps.                                      The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas