Head of Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

This new full-time post is available from 3 February 2025 on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours (minimum 0.8 FTE) or job-sharing arrangements.

Summary of the role
This role represents an exciting opportunity to establish and lead the emerging Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO), which will provide a service to university governance groups and delivery areas. The EPMO will facilitate the co-creation of common standards, processes and tools enabling effective investment planning, prioritisation, delivery, and performance evaluation of strategic business change initiatives. This role will work closely with a range of stakeholders at all levels across the University including the Strategic Investment Committee (SIC) and the delivery areas (Strategic Delivery Unit (SDU), IT PMO, Digital, Estates and Sustainability). 

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campuses and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information
For any informal queries please contact Fiona Spence F.e.spence@exeter.ac.uk.

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