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Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1EP : Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8FT : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE4 5SP : Didcot, South East England, OX11 0DF
About the job
Job summary
Background: The UK Space Agency:
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) and provides technical advice on the government’s space strategy, supporting the UK space sector to deliver the government’s vision.
Space is a part of everyday life. Satellites underpin our national economy, from agriculture and banking to aviation and shipping, and support our national security. Space science provides critical data to understand and address global challenges such as climate change, while missions to explore our solar system unite nations and advance humanity’s horizons.
We support a thriving space sector in the UK, which generates an annual income of £16.5 billion and employs 47,000 people across the country.
Through our portfolio of programmes and projects, we encourage the development of national space capabilities and are an early-stage investor in space research and development. We also promote the UK space sector’s interests and achievements; make connections to join up industry and academia; and represent the UK in international space programmes.
We have a powerful global voice, partnering with institutions across the world, including the European Space Agency.
More information about the Agency is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency
To discover more please watch this film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZZ-o0IkVU
Our Inclusive Environment
We have an inclusive culture to make UK Space Agency a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.
We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion.
Job description
Assurance
- Working with DSIT’s Departmental Assurance Coordinator and the Agency’s Corporate Assurance team to develop, and maintain, a coordinated plan of appropriate, proportionate assurance reviews of the portfolio’s work elements, integrated with the Agency’s overall corporate Assurance plans.
- Ensuring that all delivery initiatives have a proportionate assurance plan, that aligns to the overall integrated plan.
- Providing guidance and support to delivery teams in planning their assurance reviews.
- Recording, tracking and assuring the achievement of all portfolio activity related assurance actions and recommendations.
- Providing the Head of Portfolio Management, Delivery Board, Audit Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), and the DSIT Departmental Assurance Coordinator with regular, insightful reports on achievement of portfolio assurance actions and recommendations.
- Supporting the maintenance of, and championing, the Agency’s Assurance Strategy and Assurance Framework.
- Reviewing business cases and providing guidance to business case owners, specifically on the Management Case.
- Contributing to the Governance Statement in the Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts, summarising the processes, plans and findings of assurance initiatives.
- Ad hoc support of internal and external Assurance interventions.
Risk management
- Identification, articulation, scoring, and reporting on portfolio level risks.
- Managing the portfolio risk register, ensuring management of portfolio level risks, opportunities and issues is aligned with Agency risk appetite and risk management approaches.
- Carrying out analysis of risks (and their management) across the full portfolio to:
- Identify aggregate and generic risks requiring management at portfolio level.
- Identify trends and gaps in risks and risk management practices across the whole portfolio.
- Coordinate the management of aggregate, generic, and escalated risks.
- Ensuring the appropriate use of risk, issue, and opportunity tools and processes across the portfolio and providing guidance where needed.
- Planning and facilitating risk reviews and deep dives.
- Providing the Head of Portfolio Management, Delivery Board, Audit Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC and DSIT Departmental Assurance Coordinator with regular, insightful reports on portfolio risks and issues and their management.
Support
- Implement knowledge and information process for the portfolio, advising stakeholders on correct processes for document and knowledge sharing.
- Provision of administrative support to the other members of the Portfolio Management team in the pursuit of their duties and team initiatives.
- Maintenance and management of a Portfolio Management action log and plan.
- Owning and maintaining Portfolio Management SharePoint pages.
Centre of excellence
- Managing and continuously improving practices and tools for risk, issue, opportunity and assurance management across the portfolio.
- Provision of advice to those involved in assurance and risk management on using standards and processes
- Networking with external organisation to learn and share best practice on Assurance, risk, issues and opportunity management.
Person specification
The role holder will be required:
- Coordinating proportionate, appropriate, integrated Assurance of delivery across the portfolio.
- Coordinating the management for generic, aggregate and portfolio level risks, issues and opportunities.
- Provision of support to the portfolio management team.
- Deputising for the Portfolio Delivery Manager.
Duties and tasks commensurate with being an employee within UK Space Agency.
Essential Skills / Qualification
- Project delivery risk and assurance management experience.
- Good analytical and presentational skills.
- Confidence to work with multiple stakeholders across the organisation.
- Good communication skills, with experience of presenting technical information clearly.
- Good information visualisation skills
- Able to work with minimal supervision in engaging with stakeholders at all levels
- Tenacity, resilience and adaptability to changing priorities and processes.
Required Essential Qualifications
- Portfolio Office Experience.
- Management of Risk Practitioner
- P3O Practitioner
- Managing Successful Programmes Foundation
- Management of Portfolios Foundation
UK Space Agency is currently going through Infrastructure Project Authority (IPA) - Government Project Delivery Accreditation. The successful candidate will be expected to go through the accreditation process after joining UK Space Agency, if they’re not currently already going through the process.
Project Delivery Capability Framework:
This role is commensurate with the Portfolio Analyst, Assurance Manager, and Risk and Issues Manager roles at SEO grade in the Project Delivery Capability Framework.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Risk and Issue Management
- Assurance
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £40,415, UK Space Agency contributes £11,708 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
UK Space Agency offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel, and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A generous maternity/paternity and adoption leave package.
- This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home, or elsewhere, as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
- The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e., level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Tom Parrin
- Email : Tom.Parrin2@ukspaceagency.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : uksarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
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If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
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