- Company Name
- Save the Children Colombia
- Job Title
- Head, Transformation Portfolio Management
- Job Description
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Job Title: Head, Transformation Portfolio Management
Role Summary
Lead and manage the Transformation Portfolio Management and Reporting (PMO) team, ensuring the successful delivery, governance, and benefit realization of global transformation initiatives. Own portfolio-level reporting, stakeholder engagement, and decision‑support processes, while overseeing inter‑departmental interdependencies, change requests, and benefit metrics.
Expectations
- Drive high‑standard portfolio planning, analysis, and reporting for senior governance bodies.
- Foster alignment across diverse initiatives, maintaining a clear view of risks, dependencies, and benefit outcomes.
- Provide hands‑on support to portfolio staff and project sponsors, ensuring adherence to project management standards.
- Manage a small leadership team (2+ staff) and collaborate with senior leaders across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio planning, monitoring, and reporting for the Transformation Directorate, ensuring timely delivery of templates and presentations to the Transformation Steering Group, Board, and CEO.
- Own benefits definition, metric tracking, and benefit realization reporting, refreshing definitions to remain fit for purpose.
- Oversee portfolio inter‑dependency management, aligning initiatives with the overall strategy and coordinating responses to audits and risk assessments.
- Establish, refine, and maintain change‑request processes for cross‑departmental inputs, ensuring clear ownership and actions.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to senior governance forums; translate portfolio insights into actionable decisions.
- Mentor and develop a team of Portfolio Manager(s) and Officers, fostering continuous improvement in PMO practices.
- Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, project management standards, and quality controls across all initiatives.
Required Skills
- Strong project and portfolio management expertise, with proven experience leading large, complex transformation initiatives.
- Excellent analytical, reporting, and data‑driven decision‑making abilities.
- Leadership and people‑management skills, comfortable managing a small team and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Effective communication: clear written and verbal skills for board‑level reporting and stakeholder engagement.
- Proficiency in PMO tools, portfolio dashboards, and benefit‑tracking systems.
- Ability to manage dependencies, risks, and benefits across multiple concurrent projects.
- Adaptability to a fast‑moving global environment and changing priorities.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Advanced project‑management certification preferred (PMP®, PRINCE2®, PMI-ACP, or similar).
- Portfolio management certification (PgMP®, PfM®, or comparable) highly desirable.