Global IT Project Assurance Lead-1

, United Kingdom

Job Family Group:
Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:
Regular

Posting Start Date:
November 17, 2022

Business unit:
Projects and Technology

Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Introduction:

Project assurance is a 10 years old internal competency that act as an independent body, entrusted to provide independent, fair and accurate insights into our IT project delivery.

Our scope includes definition, embedment and monitoring of Delivery assurance standards across the IT organisation and leading reviews for key projects.

Leadership Skills

As a member of PPMCC, you are also a leader in the natural team for value delivery and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours:

• Live our values and goal zero - We do the right thing with respect to our values, safety and people.
• Maximise our performance - We focus on priorities, seek improvements and work together across teams to close our gap to potential and deliver bottom line commercial results.
• Grow trust in Shell - We work outside in and build strong long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external parties and make a positive contribution to society.
• Engage & inspire - We engage everyone through our connected purpose and inspire people and teams be their best through development, coaching and honest feedback.
• Learner mindset - We have a shared belief that everyone can grow their ability, learn from mistakes & successes and speak up openly in a safe environment.

As your career in Shell progresses, you will be exposed to opportunities both across our diverse lines of business and in our business IT and enterprise IT functions, as well as progressively more challenging assignments that develop your capabilities.

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Dimensions & Accountabilities:

The Global IT Project Assurance resource will be supporting the top leadership with validating delivery of our IT strategy (including Business Value agenda) and objectively highlighting strengths and weaknesses in our delivery organization. This is achieved by executing and observing Project/Program/Product reviews in order to offer recommendations that will improve the chances of project success and value delivery, then aggregating findings in order to identify systemic areas for improvement.

The biggest focus is on Top IT Projects, which are the 1% most important, strategic and impactful IT deliveries across all LoBs. These ~70 projects/programmes represent a total of $500m IT spend. The objective is to review 1/3 of them, based on criticality and risks. In recent years, leadership has also leveraged our delivery excellence experience to review and support non-Top IT projects, especially those facing delivery challenges.

Because of the visibility and sensitivities of our findings, the Project Assurance Lead will manage stakeholder ranging from Project Managers to CIOs and VPs, across both business and IT organizations.

Working alongside the existing 2 Project Assurance Leads, this role will include improving, coordinating and delivering various assurance activities such as formal Value Assurance Reviews (VARs), Light VARs and startup reviews.

Project reviews will leverage existing skills and further develop the following competencies:

• Objective thinking and analysis of project risks, stepping outside the box of your own project to offer recommendations and best practices to manage project delivery risks.
• Influencing skills to encourage stakeholders and delivery teams to perceive and address challenges in order to maximize project success and Value.
• Questioning & Listening skills during interviews, Analysis & Writing skills during report write up, Presentation skills during the read-out meetings.

Skills & Requirements:

[General Job Profile Skills & Requirements]

The core competences required for this Job Profile and Job Grade can be referenced from the Learning for your Job Profile page on My Career in IT.

• At least at 5 years PM delivery at Shell
• At least 7 to 10 years overall IT delivery experience
• Good understanding of PDF, Waterfall and Agile frameworks
• PMP certification or equivalent
• Previous IT delivery assurance experience would be a bonus

[Unique Skills & Requirements of the Posting]

Key strengths looked for in candidate:

• Good analytical and investigative skills
• Ability to breach both Business and Technical environments
• Proven senior stakeholder management
• Constructive critical behaviour
• Problem solving mindset

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