Head of Portfolio Management

The University wants to do change better and has created a new Directorate, Strategic Change & Delivery to make that happen. Within our new Directorate is the Change Delivery Team who will build capacity across our institution to deliver significant strategic change associated with the University’s new Strategy to 2027.

We are building our Change Delivery Team from the ground up. Our role is to lead and help to deliver change, to empower our leadership across our community to build capacity to do change well, and to support our stakeholders to adopt change positively.

We are looking for a highly experienced and self-motivated Head of Portfolio Management to help embed our change management culture to underpin the delivery of substantial and a diverse range of strategic change initiatives. Supporting and influencing senior organisational leadership with their portfolios, you will ensure that projects are professionally planned to implement and embed strategic change effectively to deliver maximum benefits.

You will manage a pipeline of strategic change demand, ensuring that all projects are captured, sized and scaled, assigned the right resources, initiated and aligned to appropriate governance and management controls, and that change management principles and tools are used to make change successful.

Your priorities will include:

• Build a team to support the delivery of change across the University
• Lead, develop, embed, and maintain effective portfolio management
• Increase our community’s capacity to adopt change
• Bring forward proposals to ensure that projects are initiated and closed appropriately

Who we’re looking for:

• Relevant and demonstrable experience in Programme and Portfolio Management. Thorough understanding of portfolio and change management techniques and methods.
• Lead a team, and work with partners and suppliers in the delivery of large-scale and complex change.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the portfolio objectives, inspire, and motivate staff to execute delivery of our goals.
• A high degree of political sensitivity, astuteness, and the ability to use informal influence and power to overcome obstacles and achieve success across all institutional sub-strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain and “sell” the portfolio goals and objectives our community, and to persuade at a senior level.

We are one of the UK’s leading universities – internationally recognised for our expertise across a range of disciplines and research breakthroughs in multiple areas, including science, medicine and engineering, amongst many others. Conveniently located on the banks of River Tay, our main city-centre campus is at the heart of Dundee - an up-and-coming, friendly, compact and affordable city with a rich heritage in design and technology. We also have campuses at Ninewells Hospital and in Kirkcaldy which are easily accessible via local transport links.

For further information about this position please contact Julie Christie at j.v.christie@dundee.ac.uk. Please visit our website to find out more about the University’s Strategy. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 15th February 2023. We anticipate that interviews for this appointment will take place week beginning 6th March 2023. This role is open to internal University secondments and on a permanent basis whether internally or externally.

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT staff, membership of Athena SWAN.

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