About this job

Crucially, as part of the Innovation Team, the Heads of Profession take a strategic and pan-business approach, ensuring that all investments, whether in skills or technologies, deliver long-term benefit to the company as a whole.

Responsibilities

• Leadership. To be a champion and expert for a specific selection of skills, areas of expertise and technical capabilities.
• Innovation Investment. To direct investment in innovation and offerings at a tactical and strategic level, that are relevant to the profession and aligned to business objectives.
• Workforce Planning. To provide guidance and insights to resourcing, Heads of Engineering and Line Managers on capacity and workforce planning.
• Career Planning. To provide leadership in the development of skills career pathways and training for staff in the profession.
• Technical Leadership. To be a leading expert, evangelist and thought-leader, representing the selected profession and its capabilities.
• Knowledge Management. To champion the development and sharing of technical knowledge, including succession and mentoring.
• Processes & Policies. To create and maintain Roke standards and processes relevant to the profession.
• Intellectual Property. To identify, protect and curate intellectual property created or used by the business.
• Outreach. To engage with customers, academia, trade bodies and other 3rd parties to promote Roke and to capture insight and opportunities.
• Alignment. To perform the role to create and promote cross-business alignment and engagement.

Profile

Outputs & Outcomes:

• Output: Profession Strategic Plan, to deliver the capabilities, skills and expertise to meet Roke’s strategic business plan.
• Output: Roke standards and policies related to the profession.
• Output: Career pathways plan for the profession.
• Outcome: Innovation work and offerings that are supervised, disseminated and aligned to Roke strategic plan.
• Outcome: Content used for outreach and marketing that reflects Roke’s strengths and capabilities.
• Outcome: A strong network of people across Roke engaged in innovation and capability building.
• Outcome: A strong network of external 3rd parties that Roke leverages to deliver business.
• Outcome: Demonstrable excellence in knowledge management within Roke.

Specifics of Profession:

Project Delivery – covering Programme, Portfolio, Project Management, and Project Administration.

General Experience Required:

The Head of Profession should be able to evidence expertise in many of the underlying principles of Project Management:

• Leadership
• Cost Control, Forecasting, Milestone Tracking, Billing & Cash-flow Management
• Requirement Management & Management of Change Control
• Schedule & Earned Value Management
• Application of Agile, Kanban, and Structured Methodologies
• Contract Management
• Quality Planning & Management
• Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management
• Resource Management, Balancing, and Profiling
• Procurement & Subcontract Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Programme & Portfolio Management
• Team Forming & day-to-day People Management
• Stakeholder Management & Communication
• Conflict management
• Ethics, Compliance & Standards

Specific Experience Required:

The Head of Profession must be able to evidence:

• Hands-on Project Management experience on many large and small-scale, technically challenging projects:
  • successfully delivered to time/cost/quality
  • successfully recovered when time/cost/quality have been at risk
• First-hand experience of planning-for, executing, and genuinely transforming the skills, capabilities, tools, processes and overall effectiveness of a Project Delivery Community within an organisation.

Nature of the role:

Time is expected to be split 50/50 between leading the Profession, and actively practicing Project Management. The driving principle is that the Head of Profession must continuously develop their skills and experience.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive. We can accommodate flexible working arrangements, and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.