At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead PMO initiatives, manage projects, and support delivery teams with effective communication.
- Company: Dynamic organisation seeking a resilient PMO Lead for a challenging role.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work flexibility, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: 6-month rolling contract with potential for further opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a fast-paced environment where your skills can make a real difference.
- Qualifications: Active government SC Clearance and experience in project management methodologies.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Your newpany
My clients are looking for a PMO Lead who is available to take on a challenging PMO Lead role.
This role is a 6-month rolling contract and paying £550 per day inside scope of IR35.
This role is remote working with the possible odd travel to the office.
This role also requires someone who has activeernment SC Clearance.
Anyone without an activeernment SC clearance will not be considered.
- Your new role
- Essential behaviours
• Ability tomunicate effectively with Stakeholders at diff level - Tenacity, persistence
- Drive to move beyond blockers
- Goodmunications skills, can adapt delivery vehicle to receiver and message links to readership
- Good influencing skills
- Curiosity to seek and drive improvements
- Ability to learn/use Home Office tools to support their outputs
Essential skills
• Microsoft packages TEAMS, Share Point, excel, project, Power Point, WORD
- Jira
- Co Pilot (or other AI support tools)
- Stakeholder mgmt. across different level of mgmt.
- Knowledge and experience of project methodologies
Desirable skill
• Microsoft: power bi
PSO Role
• A hands-on support role embedded within the portfolio or specific project management teams.
- Typical responsibilities
• Maintaining RAID logs, plans, schedules, actions - Producing weekly/monthly reports and MI
- Supportingernance meetings and follow-ups
- Tracking risks, issues, and dependencies
- Supporting delivery managers and programme leads with admin and coordination
- Drive staff onboarding activities, municating beyond department boundaries to support SAS Engineering and Delivery staff
PMO Role
• A central function that sets standards, provides oversight, and enables delivery across projects, programmes, or portfolios.
- Typical responsibilities
• Helps define delivery standards, frameworks, and controls - Portfolio and Engineering level reporting , risk & issue oversight, dependency management
- Escalation and assurance to senior leadership
- Resource, financial, and delivery insight across multiple initiatives
- Supports a single source of truth for delivery status
- Can help put in place tracking and controls on projects and programmes
- Will escalate key issues, risks and dependencies
- What you'll need to succeed
This isn't a regular PMO Lead role as my clients are looking for someone with the above skillset but also the resilience and tenacity of a strong personality who can thrive in a challenging environment.
If you have worked in a similar environment previously and/or feel up for a challenge, feel free to send me your CV.
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