Head of Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

Location: Boston Spa
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week)
Grade: SB3
Salary: £58,800 per annum

Are you a seasoned portfolio leader looking to make a lasting impact in a world-renowned organisation?

The British Library is seeking a Head of EPMO to lead and shape its Enterprise Portfolio Management Office.

As Head of EPMO, you will play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of critical programmes and projects, ensuring strategic alignment and embedding best practice governance across the organisation.

In this role, you will:
Embed best practice frameworks, processes, and governance across the Library’s Digital and Capital portfolios.
Oversee portfolio performance, ensuring effective risk and resource management, and alignment with strategic priorities.
Act as a centre of excellence for project and programme delivery, offering expert guidance and fostering a collaborative culture across teams.
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including the Board and Chief Officers, to ensure delivery aligns with organisational objectives.
Drive change management initiatives and ensure the successful realisation of benefits across programmes and projects.

To succeed in this role, you will need:
Proven experience in setting up or leading an EPMO or PMO in a complex organisational environment.
Expertise in portfolio, programme, and project management methodologies, including governance, resource planning, and risk management.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
A track record of delivering change and transformation initiatives, embedding best practices, and achieving measurable outcomes.
Certifications in programme/project management (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, P3O Practitioner) and proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Project and Power BI.
This role is based primarily at our Boston Spa in Yorkshire, with an expectation to be onsite for the majority of the week due to the collaborative and public-facing nature of the Library’s work. However, we are open to considering flexible working arrangements, including part-time or reduced hours, for the right candidate.

Why Join the British Library?
The British Library is a world-renowned institution at the forefront of knowledge and innovation. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the Library’s future, contributing to its mission of advancing learning, research, and discovery.

Whether you are seeking a permanent role or an interim position, this opportunity allows you to make a meaningful impact during an exciting period of transformation.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 28.97% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 19 January 2025

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