**Details**: **Reference number**: - 285842**Salary**: - £43,000 - £47,300**Job grade**: - Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**: - Permanent**Business area**: - HO - Digital Data and Technology**Type of role**: - Project Delivery**Working pattern**: - Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**: - 1Contents Location About the job **Benefits**: Things you need to know Location - Croydon - Metro PointAbout the job **Job summary**: The Home Office leads on immigration, borders and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy. The Migration and Border Technology Portfolio (MBTP) is an award-winning delivery Portfolio in the Home Office’s Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) directorate, delivering digital services that are best in class for government, helping the Home Office achieve its ambitions. The work of the Portfolio is being delivered by a mixed team of civil servants, consultants and contractors working together using Agile methodologies. The role of a Project Support Officer **will be based in Border Systems **that covers a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of product’s objectives. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our goal to provide outstanding services for everyone **and work towards delivering critical projects and programmes in Border Systems. There will be also opportunity to work in different areas within Portfolio to other teams according to the business needs.** The role enables the smooth running of the project by supporting the project/delivery manager through the embedding and execution of product/project management processes and activities on their behalf. This is an exciting time to join the Portfolio as we develop some of the most ambitious and transformative technology projects the department has ever seen. The teams work closely with Home Office policy and operational teams, other key enabling functions such as commercial, finance and the Programme and Projects Delivery Directorate as well as other Government departments. The Portfolio is also moving into a Product-centric approach to make it easier to rapidly innovate and iterate as we continue our focus on customer experience, evolving requirements, and the strategic differentiation for a product or service. Organising around products enables us to better integrate people, data, processes and IT. A product-centric model is ideal for integrating digital technologies and scales, offering a high chance of growth and profitability. The teams work closely with Home Office policy and operational teams, other key enabling functions such as commercial, finance and the Programme and Projects Delivery Directorate as well as other Government departments. You will be working with a highly motivated and hard-working group of people, who have come together to drive product lifecycle management, digital ambitions, design appropriate solutions and deliver digital services quickly and effectively. Our work makes a real difference in helping the Home Office achieve its ambitions to keep citizens safe and the country secure. **Job description**: You’ll get to work with fantastic people and have a major impact on some of the most critical systems and services in the UK in a high-profile area attracting huge interest from ministers, wider government, the media and the public. We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment to help you do your best work. **Hybrid Working** Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. Please note that workplace is used to refer to the Government office, other Government building where the employee works when not working from home, or to another designated workplace that is required for business reasons. Employees will be expected to work at least 40% of their contracted hours in a designated workplace (which will usually be their contracted work location). Applicants can discuss what this with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions Due to the nature of the role, it is available on a full-time basis with flexible and compressed working. **Person specification**: Day to day responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to: - Working alongside colleagues to provide advice and guidance to influence best practice use of project management disciplines, approaches, and products within a fast-paced technical environment. - Distilling complex, technical data to establish a single source of the truth; handling project controls, supporting team leads in the development of underpinning governance structures for decision-making and escalation; and the development and maintenance of core metrics and reporting. - Planning and scheduling: Implementing and maintaining appropriate systems to enable effective planning, monitoring, and scheduling, providing challenge as the need arises.