Centre Of Excellence Coordinator

About the role We've an amazing new opportunity to become our new Centre of Excellence (CoE) Coordinator, reporting into the Centre of Excellence (CoE) Manager within our Asset Programme Management Office (PMO).
We see this role is essential to realising our National Leader ambitions and we're looking for a super organised, outgoing and motivated professional with proven experience in a fast-paced Programme Office (PMO) environment or similar environment.
You'll be responsible for supporting the development of a new Centre of Excellence (CoE) function within the Northumbrian Water PMO, developing, embedding, and improving on business processes, tools, and systems.
You'll be responsible for supporting the Centre of Excellence Manager in ensuring our projects and programmes adopt this best practice to maximise benefits delivered from Northumbrian Water's delivery.
We're looking for you to take accountability for supporting the development, maintenance, and communication of business processes, project controls, resource planning, and best practice procedures.
You'll also reinforce the role, responsibilities, and purpose of the CoE across the PMO and broader Northumbrian Water operations, acting as a representative for the CoE in meetings and cross-function discussions.
Join us in an exciting opportunity to shape project delivery by fostering collaborative relationships across Northumbrian Water.
As a vital member of our Centre of Excellence (CoE), you'll play a key role in maintaining transparent and supportive connections throughout the organisation.
Your efforts will enable resilience and flexibility within the CoE, empowering the PMO to fulfil its responsibilities efficiently through shared resources and strategic business planning.
In this dynamic role, you'll take the lead in coordinating and overseeing routine activities to ensure the CoE consistently meets monthly reporting requirements and exceeds expectations.
Your contributions will span various domains, including crafting clear and accurate documents, supporting governance forums and program compliance with industry-leading standards.
If you're ready to make a tangible impact and drive excellence in project management, we invite you to join our team and be part of our journey towards success.
About you Are you ready to leverage your expertise in project delivery and stakeholder management to drive success in a dynamic team environment?
In this role, you'll bring your proven track record of adept stakeholder management and your communication skills will be crucial as you influence the project and program community to adopt best practices and foster relationships across diverse disciplines and hierarchies.
As you will be supporting the delivery of complex projects or programs, a comprehensive understanding of project controls, governance, and reporting would be preferrable but not essential.
Furthermore, your experience in maintaining and communicating business processes, guidance, and standards will be invaluable in ensuring alignment and understanding throughout the organisation.
We're seeking someone who has contributed to high-performing teams, who has the ability to work independently teamed with creative thinking and proactivity to drive items of work forward.
You'll also have a strong grasp of routine performance reporting and project management tools, data analysis, and crafting presentations.
If you are an outgoing team player with strong communications skills and you have a knack for effective document management and record-keeping, including expertise in information and file management structures, you're the ideal candidate we're looking for.
If this opportunity resonates with you, we eagerly await your application.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks.
They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
About Asset Management & PMO The Assets Directorate understand the health of our assets, invest wisely and maintain them to continue to provide safe, reliable and resilient services to our customers today and in the future.
We have launched an ambitious transformation programme to drive a real step change in how we deliver our capital projects.
This requires the development of a high-performing PMO to provide a central controls function delivering impactful performance reporting, estimating, schedule and risk management, and governance.
The overarching objective of the transformation programme is to transition from a hybrid PMO consisting of NWL staff and contractor support, to an entirely inhouse model.
bout usHere are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all.
We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work.
As an equal opportunity employer we're committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.We're aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don't have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.NWG at a glance:Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services.
To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.Our benefitsWe're a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.Benefits to include, here's just a few of them:Enhanced maternity payEnhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year's EveCompany pension schemeDigital GPAward winning wellbeing websiteEmployee Assistance ProgrammeLife assuranceQualification loansProfessional subscriptionBuy and sell annual leaveDiscounts and cashback offers