Change Portfolio Manager
Post Introduction
About the Department/Role
The Church of England Pensions Board provides retirement services to those who serve or work for the Church. Both a regulated pension fund and registered charity, more than 43,000 people rely on us for their pensions. A global leader in ethical and responsible investment, we carefully steward the £3.3bn of pension savings entrusted to us to not only grow our members’ pensions, but also to drive systemic and lasting change across the industries and sectors in which we invest for a just and sustainable word. The Board also supports 2,500 retired clergy with their housing plans, managing a national portfolio of 1,200 rented homes and Community Living options.
In just 2 years, the Board turns 100. As we approach that milestone, a key focus for us is how we better support customers with planning well and early for their financial future. We have some big innovative ideas in this space, which involves making changes to how we work within the Board. This new role will help us to make some of those ideas a reality, embedding a culture of continuous improvement within our team.
The purpose of this role is to enable the delivery of a portfolio of improvement and change initiatives, working with and across teams, senior leaders, and people managers to support delivery from definition to implementation.
The role will include supporting the initiation, definition, planning, delivery, and review/closure of a range of initiatives of varying complexity – aligned to our strategy. As our Portfolio Manager, we will be looking to you particularly to help us monitor delivery across this portfolio, working with the team to identify dependencies, cross-cutting risks and opportunities and putting in place plans to make change easier to do!
We are looking for someone with a track record of delivering customer-facing and transformational projects and initiatives. We need you to know your project management tools inside and out, but also understand when to flex the approach to get the best from the change and the team.
What you'll be doing
In this role you will:
- Enable delivery of a portfolio of improvement and change initiatives across the Housing team, ensuring change is monitored, managed, and supported effectively, working across teams, senior leaders, and people managers to support delivery from definition to implementation.
- Develop robust and deliverable project plans.
- Support the adoption of change management processes to ensure that all proposed projects and initiatives are fully defined, resourced, and delivered.
- Coach and mentor the team in effective delivery of change.
Key role requirements:
- Relevant training and qualifications e.g. in programme or portfolio management.
- Experience of supporting and delivering change and business improvement initiatives in complex organisational environments, and in aligning projects to organisational strategy.
- Experience of managing project/portfolio delivery and change implementation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills,
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including inspiring a team to work towards common goals.
About You
The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to recruiting disabled people. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information about the role and person specification.
What we offer
Your Salary
- A salary of £34,099.80 (FTE £56,833) plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of your salary.
Your Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
- We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department’s needs. We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
- We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK’s leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abby with a plus-one guest.
- Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
- Opportunity to the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
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The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.
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Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.
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- Strive for Excellence
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- Collaborate
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We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we would like to hear from you.
Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for the role.
