Job Opportunity with FFP Member, TACT: Senior Portfolio Officer

Location: Homebased - Nationwide

Salary: £33,688 per annum + £750 per annum homeworking allowance + £3,777 per annum London Weighting allowance (if applicable)
Hours: 35 hours per week - 12 month fixed term contract

​Closing Date: 19/11/2023
Interview Date: 27/11/2023

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Pay - £33,688 per annum + £750 per annum homeworking allowance + £3,777 per annum London Weighting allowance (if living in a London borough)

Location – Home based with some travel required

As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. TACT invests all surplus income into staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to establish expert in-house support services such as our TACT Health and Education Services and create TACT Connect, our ground-breaking scheme for care experienced young people and adults.  New staff will join us as we  embark on a journey to become a wholly trauma-informed organisation with the aim of increasing our effectiveness and improving outcomes for the children and young people in our care.

We pride ourselves on our flexible working opportunities, an extensive wellbeing programme and our benefits package, all curated to support a healthy work-life balance for all our staff. We will also invest in your learning, supporting you to grow and develop during your employment with TACT.  You will be encouraged to attend personal and professional development opportunities and will have access to learning and resources to empower you to advance your knowledge and skills.

We are currently the 4th Best Charity to work for and the 16th Best Mid-Sized Company in the UK according to The Best Companies criteria and our survey results have evidenced “outstanding” levels of engagement amongst staff in recent years. You can view our Best Companies summary video here.

As a Senior Portfolio Officer with TACT,  you will be a part of our amazing team of professionals working with our organisational values at the heart of their everyday practice. You can review our values here.

The Senior Portfolio Officer will be responsible for ensuring the success of TACT's projects and change initiatives. The successful candidate will take a pan-organisation view of all projects and other change activities and seek to ensure that the organisation’s leaders have timely, complete, relevant and accurate information on the status of change activities and early insights into potential issues and opportunities.

Whilst being homebased, the Senior Portfolio Officer will be required to travel for team meetings, training and other in person events. 

This is a fixed term contract role for 12 months.

The main role requirements for this role include:

• Demonstrable experience of running Portfolio management including planning and prioritisation in a PMO capacity. 
• Experience of running Change Boards on behalf of an organisation
• An understanding of agile and waterfall project management.
• Understands how to prioritise portfolios of change.
• Understands Project controls and governance
• Capability in appropriate design and mobilisation of Portfolio management in similar environments to TACT.
• Practical expertise in preparing and using project prioritisation approaches in environments comparable to TACT.
• Ability to support governance boards.  
• A disciplined work approach.
• Assertive and tenacious while remaining calm.

TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:

• 31 days paid holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata if part time).
• Flexible working arrangements (including compressed hours, flexibility around core hours, and volunteer days policy).
• Family-friendly policies.
• Homeworking ‘bundle’ including annual allowance of £750, IT equipment and a loan for home office set up.
• Stakeholder pension scheme (salary sacrifice) and life insurance from day one.
• Employee Assistance Programme (including free CBT counselling, remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions).
• Fantastic professional learning and personal development opportunities.

A Standard DBS clearance is required for this role and will be processed by TACT on your behalf.

Please see the Job Information Pack, Job Description and TACT website at Tactcare.org.uk for more detailed information.

Closing Date: Sunday 19th November 2023
Interview Date: Monday 27th November 2023 (via Microsoft Teams)

Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believes that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work.  As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications, and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children.  We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people.  All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies.

TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Full details and application documents here