Portfolio Data Officer – Foreign And Commonwealth Office Jobs Milton Keynes

Overview

Position Title: Portfolio Data Officer

Company: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Location: Milton Keynes, UK

Job Description:

The Centre for Delivery (CfD) aims to inspire, empower and equip FCDO staff to achieve real-world impact by building a more capable organisation that embraces evidence, learning, innovation, creativity, empowered accountability, and informed decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to regular and ad hoc reports on the programme portfolio to the FCDO Investment and Delivery Committee and other corporate governance boards.
• Co-ordinating frequent monitoring and reporting of the FCDO Major Programmes Portfolio and relevant programmes in the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
• Drafting or providing input into responses to related Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

Requirements:

• Supporting development of the Aid Management Platform (AMP) and digital systems including the new FCDO finance system (Hera) roll-out.
• Curation of relevant data and management information ensuring core reports are up to date, accessible, clearly understood and effectively used by the organisation to support their programme delivery.
• Contributing to wider CfD activities to improve the way the FCDO manages and uses information on policy programmes, and their contribution to wider policy delivery.
• Contributing to effective CfD management through the provision of administrative support to CfD senior leadership team and wider department.
• Occasional travel to UK offices.A

Benefits:

• Experience of managing and summarising numerical and narrative information, including through use of Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel).
• Ability to present information (in written or graphical form) in a clear and accessible way.
• Aptitude to identify, understand and make use of digital tools to improve the way we work and what we deliver, to support wider organisational change.