# Assistant Project Manager & Portfolio Analyst

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England; London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 33,422 - 45,353 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking Assistant Project Managers and Portfolio Analysts to join our team at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). As an Assistant Project Manager, you will lead the day-to-day running of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. As a Portfolio Analyst, you will provide oversight of a collection of programmes or projects, analysing information and providing insights to support informed decision-making.

**Job Summary** The UKHSA has a variety of HEO Project Delivery roles available, including Assistant Project Manager and Portfolio Analyst. These roles play a vital part in the organisation's mission to protect the nation from health threats. Successful candidates will join one of our diverse projects, programmes, or portfolio offices, with opportunities to contribute to initiatives such as:

- Supporting the delivery of major change programmes within UKHSA’s portfolio, aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives

- Health protection projects or other public health initiatives

- Technology programmes or projects

- Infrastructure programmes or projects

- Organisational change and transformation programmes or projects

- Supporting the setup and delivery of new projects and programmes

**Assistant Project Manager** As an Assistant Project Manager, you will:

- Manage the day-to-day running of projects, leading them to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints

- Build project plans and apply appropriate delivery methodology

- Set project controls and track and report against milestones

- Co-ordinate the development of the business case

- Monitor and track project spend, ensuring it is within budget

- Plan and manage resources to deliver the project

- Identify benefits and ensure these are understood, measured, tracked, and owned

- Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders

- Identify and monitor project risks and issues, developing mitigating actions and escalation processes

- Provide project reports and support effective governance and decision-making

**Portfolio Analyst** As a Portfolio Analyst, you will:

- Support your Line Manager by collaborating with business areas to identify and categorise new projects

- Co-ordinate reporting requirements by the projects/programmes to support the analysis of the Portfolio performance

- Provide secretariat support ensuring the smooth functioning and running of governance boards and ad hoc meetings

- Maintain the portfolio delivery map and critical path to monitor project progress

- Identify and monitor portfolio risks (threats and opportunities) and escalate as appropriate

- Use digital tools and data analysis to provide insights to support informed decision-making

- Gather and collate information to support your Line Manager in developing mechanisms for measuring benefits

- Engage with a wide range of stakeholders, building strong and trusted relationships

**Person Specification** The selection criteria for these roles include:

- Recent experience of working in a project, programme or portfolio office environment

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships across a wide range of stakeholders

- Awareness of commercial and procurement processes, budget and cost management, business case development, and benefits management

- Ability to use digital tools and data analytics to support decision-making in project delivery

- Effective communication skills, including the ability to influence and challenge constructively

- Recent experience of reporting or presenting information through dashboards, highlight reports, or progress updates

- Strong capability with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

**Benefits** Alongside your salary of £33,422 - £45,353 per year, UK Health Security Agency contributes towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Other benefits include:

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- An environment with flexible working options

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

## Skills

### Required
- project planning
- risk management
- resource management
- governance
- assurance
- data analysis
- Microsoft Office

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