Senior PMO Planner

Join Selborne as a Senior PMO Planner and help shape clear, reliable plans that support delivery across complex programmes. You’ll own the detail in Microsoft Project, bring structure to changing priorities, and give stakeholders the confidence to make informed decisions.

This is a home-based role, with occasional travel to our Glasgow office (around 1–2 times per month). This is a fixed term opportunity, currently running until 31st March 2026 with the potential to extend.

As part of our commitment to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from people who are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

• Build and maintain Microsoft Project plans using predecessors and successors
• Manage multiple project and programme plans, keeping dates, milestones, and dependencies accurate
• Review project documentation and meeting notes, then update plans to reflect agreed actions and changes
• Identify schedule risks, issues, and planning assumptions, escalating through the right forums
• Provide clear planning insight to support governance, reporting, and decision-making
• Work independently while collaborating closely with project teams and PMO colleagues

• Manage multiple project and/or programme schedules, updating them from live information
• Interpret project documents and meeting minutes, turning decisions into plan changes quickly
• Spot and raise schedule risks, issues, and dependencies with the right people at the right time
• Work with minimal supervision, prioritising tasks and maintaining high attention to detail
• Security clearance: you’ll need to either already hold, or be able to obtain, Security Clearance (SC) (including having lived in the UK for at least 5 years).

• Support planning and reporting in a regulated or Defence environment
• Experienced in planning within Royal Navy programmes.

Capita is an outsourcer, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences.

Selborne is a bold, £1 billion, 12-year transformation of Royal Navy training, led by Capita and a powerhouse consortium known as Team Fisher — including Raytheon UK, Fujitsu, and the University of Lincoln. Together, we're modernising military education with cutting-edge tech like simulators and data analytics, all under a collaborative "one team" approach with the Royal Navy. It’s a shared mission to deliver smarter, more effective training for sailors and marines across the naval enterprise.

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