3 Project Management jobs in Workington, Cumbria

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is for you! We're fully committed to being an inclusive employer. ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies. We're looking for an experienced Benefits Manager. You will be an important part of our Transformation Portfolio Office (TPO), working with colleagues and project and programme managers across our portfolio, setting the standards for benefits and value management and then helping to embed them. You will help our teams to identify, value and validate their project benefits, as well as being a key part of the TPO management team, helping to set the direction for maturing and improving our ways of working. The role sits within the Transformation Portfolio Office within the Service Transformation team, Strategy Transformation and Assurance Directorate. Our vision is to enable the Environment Agency to deliver the right transformation in the right way, at the right time, with the right people. Our purpose is to:

• Invest in the optimum blend of initiatives to achieve EA2030 and make the Environment Agency more effective/efficient
• Deliver transformation according to good practice and Government-mandated standards
• Improve wellbeing for everyone by ensuring that the reasons for change are communicated and understood, change is well managed and sequenced in a coherent, balanced way
• Have the right people in place with the appropriate professional skills required to deliver transformation.
Responding to flood/environmental incidents is a central part of what we do. You'll be required to have an incident role and be available to respond to incidents, or help provide business continuity during an incident. This may attract an additional payment; full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to enable you in your incident role. The team The role sits within the Transformation Portfolio Office within the Service Transformation team, Strategy Transformation and Assurance Directorate.

Essential skills: We are looking for someone motivated who is organised, dynamic and willing to share their knowledge. The successful applicant will need to:
• Be a subject matter expert in Benefits Management and demonstrate excellent knowledge of what best practice in a project / programme / portfolio management office (PMO) environment looks like both in theory and in practice
• Demonstrate a track record of operating as a benefits manager at PMO, portfolio or programme level, where benefits management practices are embedded into practice and successfully used in the decision-making process
• Communicate well, gain respect and co-operation throughout the business by showing the right behaviours, influencing project and programme managers, providing constructive challenge and support to help our projects to deliver and embed successfully.
Desirable skills: Experience of applying Managing Benefits and Management of Value (MoV) or similar approaches.