Location: Crawley, West Sussex - three days per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 25 April 2024
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
We're looking for a Portfolio Support Officer as part of Virgin Atlantic's Delivery function. Working closely with the Enterprise Delivery Lead and portfolio delivery teams to provide high quality support within a portfolio and programme environment.
This role is accountable to the Programme Manager/Snr Project Manager/Project Manager in a matrix structure for the provision of support services including preparation, build and maintenance of the programme plans as well as support to workstream project managers where required to ensure the successful delivery of the programme within the set objectives. The role ensures the programme adheres to Enterprise Portfolio governance standards.
The Portfolio Support Officer will also work with their peers and, with the direction of the Enterprise Delivery Lead & Portfolio Lead will contribute to the relentless improvement of governance standards in project and programme delivery
Day to day
Some of your key responsibilities as our Portfolio Support Officer will be:
Ensuring governance standards are implemented consistently across the programme, including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of programme deliverables
Reviewing and tracking of finances, business cases, change requests, progress, risks, issues and dependencies across the programme
Working with the subject matter authorities and work stream project managers to build the programme and individual project plans to support the timely delivery of the programme.
Working with the Programme manager to update and coordinate the programme & milestone plan seeking contributions from Workstream Leads and Project Managers
Supporting developing and generating Governance board papers including consolidating material from status reports
About you
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
Ideally holds a basic project management qualification (Prince2, APMP)
Experience of working in a project environment (e.g.as a Work-stream lead or SME)
Strong planning and organisation skills
Sound knowledge of Excel, Power-point and MS Project
Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops & MS Teams advantageous
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Airlines and Aviation
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