As a portfolio manager, you will further develop and implement ICT portfolio management into a functional, supported, and sustainably embedded working method within a government organization. You will support the strategy team (strategist, architect, and information managers) in making choices regarding priorities and capacity.
You will connect organizational objectives, information provision, change initiatives, and execution capacity, ensuring that decisions are made based on current, objective, and comparable management information. You will provide structure, make capacity and dependencies transparent, prepare decision-making, and guide the organization in applying the new working method.
Upon completion of the assignment, processes, roles, responsibilities, consultation structures, instruments, and management agreements will be established, applied, and transferred.
What you will do.
- Further develop and improve the current setup of portfolio management
- Optimize, apply, and have the portfolio process established by the organization for intake, assessment, prioritization, decision-making, monitoring, adjustment, and termination of initiatives
- Establish, manage, and keep up-to-date an integrated ICT portfolio of relevant projects, improvement initiatives, and change assignments, with unambiguous basic data and clear ownership
- Develop and establish a prioritization framework to assess initiatives transparently, objectively
- Set up and further develop an organization-wide governance for the ICT portfolio, including roles, responsibilities, mandates, consultation structures, decision-making moments, and escalation routes
- Prepare and maintain periodic portfolio dashboards and management reports on progress, costs, benefits, risks, dependencies, capacity, and strategic contribution
- Make available and required capacity of all I&A teams transparent, including proposals for distribution, phasing, and resolving bottlenecks
- Document working methods, formats, principles, and management agreements for structural use of portfolio management within the organization
- Prepare and guide an implementation and embedding plan, including knowledge transfer and a proposal for structural ownership within the organization
- Prepare a final report with achieved results, remaining development points
Profile
You will work under the direction of the Advice & Projects team manager and collaborate closely with the strategy team (strategist, architect, information manager), management, and project leaders. You will advise independently and escalate in a timely manner when capacity, progress, risks, or interdependencies threaten the achievement of portfolio objectives. You will connect to the existing portfolio process and coordinate with the aforementioned roles regarding the setup.
The activities are embedded within the organization and/or are also (partially or entirely) performed by employees who are employed by the client. You will participate in regular work meetings, report to the client or a supervisor, the work form is determined by, among other things, location and planning, and work is done in a team context.
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Minimum of 4 years demonstrable work experience as a portfolio manager, strategic advisor, implementation manager
- Minimum of 2 years demonstrable work experience in the past 6 years with setting up, implementing, and further developing portfolio management within a government institution
- Demonstrable work experience with governance setup, prioritization of change initiatives, capacity steering, and management or administrative reports
- Demonstrable work experience with implementing and sustainably embedding new working methods, roles, responsibilities, and processes within an organization
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with realizing, implementing, and sustainably embedding portfolio management within complex organizations with multiple organizational units, diverse interests, and multiple change initiatives
- Demonstrable work experience with designing and introducing roles, mandates, consultation structures, decision-making moments, and escalation routes
- Demonstrable work experience with prioritization methodologies, portfolio trade-offs, scenario analyses, and connecting change assignments to available capacity and resources
- Demonstrable work experience with guiding organizational change and transferring working methods to the line organization
Competencies.
- Organizational sensitivity: Effectively navigate a complex organizational environment and understand diverse interests. Translate interests of management, stakeholders, and involved teams into supported choices within the ICT portfolio
- Administrative sensitivity: Effectively navigate a complex organizational environment and understand administrative relationships and decision-making processes
- Analytical ability: Quickly grasp complex issues, dependencies, risks, capacity, and priorities and translate them into clear management information
- Overview: Maintain an overview of the total portfolio and make the impact of choices transparent for decision-making
- Persuasiveness: Clearly substantiate proposals and advice and involve stakeholders in decision-making
- Advisory skills: Advise at a tactical and strategic level on governance, prioritization, capacity, and change initiatives
- Connecting ability: Establish a connection between organizational objectives, information provision, change initiatives, and execution capacity
- Environmental awareness: Establish a connection between organizational objectives, information provision, change initiatives, and execution capacity
- Result-oriented: Focus on concrete results and embedding the developed working method
- Implementation power: Focus on concrete results and embedding the developed working method
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