Project Support/PMO

Project overview

Code systems have been used to track diseases and causes of death in the population for centuries. ICD

The Norwegian Directorate of Health intends to take responsibility for translating, making available, facilitating, and coordinating the upgrade to ICD-11, as well as continuing ongoing communication efforts about ICD-11. It is expected that the sector's organizations will be responsible for mapping local consequences of the upgrade, preparing for it, and adopting ICD-11 when it becomes available.

Assistance to be provided

Need/Assignment:

In the work towards the transition to ICD-11, the Norwegian Directorate of Health depends on collaboration with the health sector and other stakeholders. Specifically, this will involve meeting places with stakeholders to coordinate necessary areas of effort. The Norwegian Directorate of Health wishes to continue this work in 2027 by using established collaboration arenas with representatives from relevant actors in the sector. The Norwegian Directorate of Health will coordinate and facilitate the work. Smaller pilot tests are also planned.

To ensure sufficient capacity for this work, the Norwegian Directorate of Health needs a skilled project support resource (PMO) with solid experience in project administrative tasks for a 100% position in the ICD-11 project.

• International Classification of Diseases
• was first published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the early 1900s. ICD-10, used in Norway today, was published in 1992. It is used globally for diagnosis coding and disease and cause of death statistics, and has now been upgraded to ICD-11 after an extensive international revision. Norway has been obligated since 1967 to use the latest version of ICD when reporting to WHO. ICD-10 was implemented in Norway from 1997 to 1999. In 2022, the eleventh revision of ICD was launched. In addition to the medical upgrade, the code system is now fully digitized for modern use, management, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

The role involves contributing to:

Other tasks may arise during the course of the work.

The role reports to the project manager and shall be performed in accordance with current guidelines and decisions from the project manager and project owner. In addition to working closely with the project manager, the role will collaborate closely with key roles and other professional resources participating in the project, both internally and externally.

The consultant performing the assignment will be subject to confidentiality. All documentation will be in Norwegian. The working language is mainly Norwegian, but English will occur.

Competence/Experience

Absolute requirements

Evaluation requirements

Start date: 14.12.2026 to be finally agreed upon contract signing. Contract award is contingent upon budget allocation for the project for 2027 from the Ministry of Health and Care Services. The project is highly prioritized within the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

• Developing and communicating administrative processes, routines, and templates
• Coordinating work with governing documents, plans, and annual plan revisions
• Facilitating processes for preparing and developing presentations based on the project management group's professional input, for internal and external meeting forums. Further, to call and chair these meeting forums administratively, and to prepare minutes
• Assisting the project manager in following up and reporting on the project as a whole, internally and externally, including finances, progress, and risk
• Coordinating the project's risk management processes
• Managing and administering cases and channels on Teams/SharePoint
• Handling all commercial agreements with relevant suppliers in accordance with the directorate's guidelines
• Establishing an overview of and plan for collaboration with stakeholders, including coordinating information, communication, and anchoring activities with various actors
• Coordinating the project's resource use with the operational plan for the line organization
• Assisting the project in planning and executing events, meetings, seminars, etc.
• Participating in and possibly leading smaller pilot projects.
• Min. 3-7 years of experience
• The offered consultant must have higher education at university/college level.
• The offered consultant must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in project work and/or project support work (PMO).
• The offered consultant must have experience as a process driver.
• The offered consultant(s) shall have experience using the tools in Microsoft 365 (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)
• The offered consultant must be available for the start-up and option period, ref. appendix 3.
• The offered consultant should have experience from the health sector, preferably within IT/digitalization.
• The offered consultant should have 2 years of experience in the role of PMO/project support.
• The offered consultant should have relevant experience with administration – including managing internal and external meeting forums, assisting with reporting, and stakeholder management.
• The offered consultant should have experience from previous relevant projects

Project details

until 24.12.2027

Scope: 100%

Option: 2 x 6 months

Oslo

Application deadline: November 13, 2026

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 10-12 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Oslo, Norway, NO
• Languages: Norwegian