Portfolio Performance Analyst

Grade C - £31,373 (National Framework) or £36,775 (London Framework - if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) - There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home

Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week or compressed hours/job share will also be considered. 

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 27th October 2024 at 11.59pm

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.

Why this could be a great role for you....

If you think analytically and enjoy digging into data to uncover patterns and insights, knowing that your work will influence important business decisions, then this is the role for you.

We are looking for a great Performance Analyst to join us in our Portfolio Office Team, part of the CQC's Governance, Performance and Improvement Directorate. You will provide high quality business and data analysis to generate insightful reporting of portfolio, programme & project performance.

As a result, you will make an important contribution to ensuring that the right project and programme performance reporting standards are set out for delivery teams to follow and champion the use of best practice standards, tools, and processes across the portfolio.

This is a chance to work with like-minded enthusiasts; able to share and learn best practice, working to KPIs and improvement targets for your areas of discipline in line with the overall Portfolio Office maturity targets and as part of your individual performance objectives.

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.

We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.

We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

What you will bring...

Experience of managing portfolio management systems, approaches, and techniques.

Experience of working in a portfolio, programme, or project management setting, ideally within a Portfolio Office or PMO environment.

Knowledge of portfolio, programme, and project best practice methodologies, with direct experience in a number of key portfolio management functions / processes.

Knowledge of how PPM methodologies are applied in a change portfolio context.

Educated to degree level or equivalent and holding one or more PPM qualification i.e. Prince 2 Practitioner.

The ability to manipulate and interrogate data to produce meaningful insights that can be used to drive improved performance and quality.

Experience of using Power BI desktop to create and share insight for a range of stakeholder needs.

For further information on the Accountabilities and Responsibilities please see the link below for the JD: 

Portfolio Performance Analyst

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact George Kendall, Portfolio Office Manager at [email protected]

Individual adjustments...

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected]

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Our Values

Excellence - Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation

Caring - Treating everyone with dignity and respect

Integrity - Demonstrating our passion for 'doing the right thing'

Teamwork - Enabling us to be the best we can