Qualifications – Desirable

• Prince 2 foundation certificate
• APMG – Managing Benefits foundation certificate

Experience:

Essential:

• Significant experience of working in either Project Management or Programme Management or equivalent experience
• Experience of working with senior managers
• Experience of working with a wide variety of stakeholder groups (internal and external)
• Experience of working on own initiative and without supervision
• Demonstrable experience of prioritising work in order to ensure all deadlines are met
• Experience of implementing project and management principles
• Experience of working to a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail
• Experience of analysing, developing, maintaining and extracting data from management information systems and documentation
• Experience of researching, collating, organising and shaping complex information/data for inclusion in reports/cases
• Experience of identifying realisable benefits as part of a business case

Desirable:

• Business Transformation experience
• Previous experience of working with financial data
• Previous experience of working with statistical performance data

Skills:

Essential:

• Proven ability to understand the strategic aims and objectives of the organisation
• Proven communications skills with the ability to operate effectively at a variety of levels
• Proven influencing and negotiating skills
• Evidence of effective decisions based on business and strategic needs
• Tact and diplomacy skills when dealing with staff at all levels
• Experienced and competent in the use of MS Office applications (specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project)
• Excellent organisational and presentation skills
• Effective team working skills

Desirable:

• Experienced and competent in the use of SharePoint

Conditions:

The PPA – Benefits role will primarily be located at Lloyd House in Birmingham City Centre and is based on 36.5 hours per week.

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully passing vetting and medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions. The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future.

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.
 

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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