# Assistant Vice President

**Company**: Barclays
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking highly motivated professionals with an enthusiasm for self-directed learning and development and a genuine interest in a career in Financial Services. Our aim is to provide a platform on which to hone skills and abilities and highlight the breadth of transferable skills.

The Military Talent Scheme (MTS) for Service Leavers, aims to support the transition into the civilian workplace, by providing a 7- or 12-week unpaid placement. Our newer placement format of 7 weeks has been aligned to a business area that is actively recruiting. At the end of the placement, there will be the opportunity to move into a paid role, performance dependant.

**Responsibilities**

- Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.

- Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.

- Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.

- Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated, as necessary.

- Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

**Accountabilities**

- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

**Requirements**

- Ability to lead or support projects and deliver change initiatives effectively.

- Effective stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships and achieve outcomes at senior levels.

- Problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on practical solutions and continuous improvement.

- Change and Transformation including Agile Methodology and adherence to change delivery controls.

- Exceptional time and diary management skills, paired with sharp attention to detail and a consistently punctual, professional approach.

**Benefits**

- Opportunity to work across the UK aligned to strategic sites: London, Glasgow, Manchester, Knutsford, Northampton, and Sunderland.

- Support from an ex-military buddy/mentor throughout placement.

- Bespoke CV and interview skills workshop ahead of being aligned to a placement.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Influencing
- Problem-Solving
- Agile Methodology
- Time Management
- Attention to Detail

### Nice to have
- Communication
- Presentation
- Data Analysis
- Risk Management
- Control and Governance

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