TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

Technical Officer

• Planning and designing the programme and proactively monitoring its progress,
• Resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• Defining the programme’s governance arrangements
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards.
• Facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams
• Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from the programme is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan
• Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme’s individual projects
• Managing third party contributions to the programme
• Managing communications with all stakeholders
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Managing risks to the programme’s successful outcome
• Working with the business change manager or equivalent on the transition to the new business as usual position
• Initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the programme are identified or issues arise
• Reporting the progress of the programme at regular intervals to the SRO or programme director if this role is also defined