Job Description

Leadership

HR reporting line for all PEG team members is to Head of Project Execution Governance, however this role will provide day-to-day management oversight for Project Execution Assurance (EA) team, responsibilities include (but are not limited to);

• Oversee and validate performance and quality of project health checks
• Validate and verify content of team generated project execution reporting
• Set clear goals and roadmap for team and track and monitor progress
• Manage team backlog
• Lead team meetings (daily stand-ups and one-to-ones)
• Lead and manage PEG process improvement initiatives
• Manage communication and escalation to senior management
   

Execution Assurance & Control Oversight

• Conduct project health checks to proactively identify and report on risks/issues that would prevent timely implementation
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, simplification, automation and risk remediation, providing insightful recommendations to Project Manager’s (PM’s) to reduce risk and improve project execution quality, monitoring corrective actions to completion
• Manage change management and communication strategies for the Project Practitioner community
• Produce comprehensive process documentation detailing protocols, best practices Project Practitioner community must adhere to in partnership with the PEG team Risk Management & Governance Lead
   

Tools, Reporting & Analysis

• Deliver monthly consolidated project health check reporting providing thoughtful insights and recommendations to Senior Leadership on key trends/themes and gaps
• Oversee delivery, and perform quality assurance control checks and deep dive analysis, on PEG produced project reporting to confirm completeness and accuracy, and to identify trends or themes to be addressed or escalated
• Support innovation (processes, tools, training) as a continuous improvement of project management best practices, leveraging Enterprise Centre’s of Excellence (COE) guidance
   

Coaching & Training

• Act as I&TS COE for project tooling to ensure consistent approach and application of high standard of tool utilisation
• Coach PM’s on project governance, processes, tooling, protocols, best practices and artefact management
• Deliver training and communication plans for PM’s to build professional capability in discipline of project management best practices in partnership with the PEG Risk Management & Governance Lead
• Deliver best in class PM on-boarding experience
   

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as single point of contact for key internal stakeholders e.g. Risk, Finance, COO Office, Compliance  
• Represent PEG team at key RBC working group committees

Job Summary

This role is accountable for providing independent and objective compliance evaluation, in the form of health checks, of projects (waterfall, iterative waterfall and agile) to ensure RBC policies and standards are met and to minimize project execution risk.