[5685A] Senior Officer (Resource and Portfolio Management)

Start date: Negotiable
Clearance: NATO Secret or equivalent
Location: The Hague, Netherlands (50% on-site)

Requirements:
• Work experience and elementary financial knowledge on funding streams and resource planning and levelling budgets.
• Work experience in resource management, including the planning for and allocation of costs and resources
• Prior experience using SNOW and EBA a plus

Duties:
• Portfolio management
• Engages and influences senior managers to ensure the portfolio will deliver the agreed business objectives
• Leads the definition of a portfolio of programmes, projects, and/or on-going service provision
• Plans, schedules, monitors and reports on portfolio-related activities
• Ensures that each part of the portfolio contributes to the overall achievement of the portfolio
• Identifies portfolio-related issues
• Notifies projects/programmes/change initiatives of issues and recommends and monitors corrective action
• Collects, summarises and reports on portfolio measures
• Reports on portfolio status as appropriate. Portfolio, programme and project support
• Supports programme or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings
• Takes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects
• Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects
• Sets up and provides detailed guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques
• Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals
• May provide a cross programme view on risk, change, quality, finance or configuration management. Business situation analysis
• Investigates business situations where there is some complexity and ambiguity
• Adopts holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities
• Contributes to the selection of the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis
• Conducts root cause analysis and identifies recommendations for improvements
• Engages and collaborates with operational stakeholders. Workforce planning
• Gathers, maintains and analyses workforce capability data
• Performs gap analysis to identify workforce strengths and shortfalls with reference to business strategy and specific future needs
• Contributes to the development of workforce plans to meet current and future demand
• Coordinates and schedules ongoing workforce planning activities
• Assists in maintaining a skills and capability inventory. Internal Controls
• Studies and evaluates the audit trails of various operational processes
• Participates in the testing, review and analysis of existing internal controls
• Applies new technology-based solutions to specific internal control processes
• Completes, files and maintains forms used for internal control documentation
• Makes recommendations for the enhancement of certain internal controls. Other tasks
• Fund Manager for the CIO Travel budget
• Lead development and reporting on CIO KPIs
• Managing CIO inputs in Tasker Tracker for Agency-wide staffing and coordination process of key documents/deliverables
• Deputise for higher grade staff, if required
• Performs other duties as may be required