This is a fantastic opportunity to join the major cross government Unity Programme which will bring together Shared Services for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Department for Transport (DFT) and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
The programme aims to deliver the tools in Human Resources (HR), Recruitment, Talent & Learning, Finance, Payroll, and Procurement to enable the user to complete administration tasks, whether Finance, HR, or Procurement quickly and with minimal effort by modernising our IT Platform, bringing together our shared services teams, standardising our data and cutting through processes that cost our departments time and money.
The Deployment Planner is responsible for establishing, maintaining and continuously improving deployment governance, reporting and control frameworks.
This role will provide accurate and timely management information, facilitate governance forums, ensure adherence to programme controls, and enable effective decision making through the production of high-quality reports, dashboards and governance artefacts.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across the programme, with suppliers and stakeholders to help deliver the successful deployment of Unity's new service solution.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain deployment planning, scheduling and reporting processes aligned with project and programme governance.
- Coordinate governance meetings, boards and working groups associated with deployment activities. Produce governance reports.
- Manage decision, action and escalation processes.
- Effectively manage dependencies, risks and issues.
- Analyse data from multiple workstreams to provide meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Monitor and report progress against deployment plans and readiness criteria.
- Build effective relationships across programme delivery teams, business areas and suppliers.
Person specification
Knowledge
- Practitioner knowledge of deployment approaches, methods, tools and techniques.
- Practitioner understanding of programme and project governance methodologies.
- Working knowledge of enterprise software implementation lifecycle and methodologies.
- Working knowledge of cutover, go-live management, hyper-care and stabilisation.
- Working knowledge of organisational readiness and business change principles.
Experience
- Working level experience of planning and delivering an enterprise software deployment.
- Working level experience of a programme and project governance.
Skills
- Practitioner level planning, scheduling and reporting skills.
- Practitioner level dependency, risk and issue management, including the maintenance of critical path and impacting of changes.
- Working level facilitation and workshop leadership skills.
- Practitioner level stakeholder management and influencing capability.
- Working level experience of planning and delivering an enterprise software deployment.
- Practitioner level planning, scheduling and reporting skills.
- Practitioner level dependency, risk and issue management, including the maintenance of critical path and impacting of changes.
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