Assistant Portfolio Officer
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Job Location:
Birmingham - UK
Monthly Salary:
£ 27254 - 33699
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Assistant Portfolio Officer
Permanent
Grade
Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Working 36.5 hours per week
Birmingham City Council is committed to greenhouse gas emissions reduction and enabling a resilient low carbon and healthy city.
As a Carbon Disclosure Project global A List city and the largest local authority in Europe serving a population of over 1 million people 1000s of businesses and around 450000 households Birmingham has a key role to play in supporting the UK Governments Climate Change Act commitments and regional energy strategy priorities.
The Councils Route to Net Zero team provides a range of essential functions including devising policy building delivery partnerships and providing expertise on an exciting portfolio of economic growth social benefit and environmental initiatives. It oversees the Councils corporate and city net zero activity and champions environmental sustainability across all directorates and sectors.
About the Role
Birmingham City Council has set ambitious carbon reduction commitments and our Route to Net Zero (R20) team is at the heart of driving this change. As an Assistant Portfolio Officer youll play a key role in supporting the development delivery and monitoring of projects that will help the city transition to a more sustainable future.
This is a varied role where youll combine strong organisational and communication skills with a genuine data and risk registers to co-ordinating meetings and supporting communications youll be central to ensuring our projects run smoothly and align with governance and quality standards.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain the R20 project monitoring database and risk register providing accurate information to support performance reviews.
- Assist project leads in meeting governance and quality management requirements.
- Produce reports and dashboards to track progress and compliance with funding and procurement requirements.
- Organise and support internal and external meetings including agendas papers minutes and follow-up actions.
- Co-ordinate and support engagement activity including the R20 Community Assembly and Advisory Committee.
- Research emerging issues and best practice in climate change and carbon reduction preparing briefing notes where required.
- Contribute to communications and reporting activity including preparation of materials for stakeholders.
- Support wider Council climate change activity ensuring alignment with the Route to Net Zero Action Plan.
Please upload an up-to-date CV and Personal Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Personal Statement should outline how you meet the essential criteria for the role through your personal qualities skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached
Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer andwe arecommitted to employing retaining and developing all of our people.
We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments additional support accessibility needs or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.
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We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.
Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements before any employment offer can be confirmed.
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Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Key Skills
- Project / Program Management
- Project Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management
- Credit Analysis
- Banking
- Pricing
- Analysis Skills
- Project Management
- Financial Analysis
- Budgeting
- Property Management
- Contracts
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We are a disability confident employer and we encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. We also welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered. Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in ... View more
