What role provides facilitated workshops to promote consistent project management practice?

The Project Specialist role is typically part of a P3O's Centre of Excellence function. This role provides deep, specialized expertise in areas such as risk management, planning, or benefits realization. A key responsibility of a Project Specialist is to act as an internal consultant, promoting the consistent application of best practices, standards, and tools. They achieve this by providing expert advice, assurance, and facilitating workshops to build capability and ensure a standardized approach across the organization's portfolio of projects and programmes.

B. Project Officer: This is a support role focused on administrative tasks for a specific project or programme, such as maintaining logs and assisting with reporting, not facilitating practice-based workshops.

C. Head of Project: This is not a standard P3O role. A Head of PMO has strategic oversight, while a Project Manager leads a specific project; neither's primary function is facilitating workshops to promote consistency.

D. Secretariat/administrator: This role provides purely administrative and logistical support, such as scheduling meetings and managing documentation, and lacks the subject matter expertise for this task.

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1. AXELOS. (2013). Portfolio

Programme and Project Offices: P3O. The Stationery Office.

Appendix A

Table A.1 - Example P3O Functional Roles: The "Consultancy and performance management" function

which is fulfilled by specialist roles

explicitly lists "Facilitating workshops" and "Providing specialist consultancy support" as key activities.

Appendix A

Section A.3 - Generic Role Descriptions: The descriptions for specialist roles (e.g.

Benefits and Value Specialist

Risk Specialist) detail responsibilities for providing expert advice and supporting the consistent application of their respective disciplines

which includes facilitation. In contrast

the "Project/Programme Office Support" role description focuses on administrative and coordination tasks.