Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
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. As we start to stand up a programme of work in this space, we are looking for someone to join the team to help us track the effectiveness of our initiatives.
The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of robust project and programme governance as we implement business improvements across the Pensions Board, to better support our customers with retirement planning. A big focus of the role will also include defining a plan, and setting up the right mechanisms/tools, to track and monitor outcome and benefit delivery. In doing so, this role will help us to embed a culture of continuous learning in response to feedback.
What you'll be doing
In this role you will:
- Working with senior colleagues, establish robust governance structures to ensure effective oversight of change delivery, in line with the NCI project and portfolio governance model.
- Officiate core change meetings, ensuring that decisions are logged/tracked, risks identified, and actions undertaken.
- Maintain project/programme plans, ensuring robust reporting of delivery and tracking of milestones.
- Monitor and establish controls for risks and issues that may impact delivery and benefits realisation.
Key role requirements:
- Expertise in project or business governance, monitoring and performance reporting.
- Good knowledge of risk management techniques
- Understanding of benefit mapping and monitoring in a project environment.
- Good communication skills - both orally, in writing and in presentation.
- Able to Interpret complex data, recognising patterns, and drawing conclusions.
- Comfortable using a logical approach to solve problems, paying attention to detail, and interpreting information from various sources.
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 £27,946.20 (FTE £46,577), 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.
ABOUT NATIONAL CHURCH INSTITUTIONS
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.
We Include. You Belong.
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.
Living out our values in all that we do, we:
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
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.
