PMO Lead in Birmingham

Closing Date: 18th September. Interviews will take place week from week commencing 28th September. 2 year fixed term contract or secondment.

A bit about the role. Working within our Help to Buy Transformation & Re-procurement Programme, the PMO Lead will play a key role in delivering a complex, multiyear public sector change programme. You will join a collaborative programme team tasked with reshaping a nationally significant service at a critical point in its lifecycle. Our focus is on strengthening data integrity, reducing operational and financial risk, improving customer outcomes, and ensuring long-term service portability while protecting public funds. This is a programme that values disciplined delivery and thoughtful decision-making. Our Programme Director champions evidence-based choices and a diversity of perspectives, recognising that the best outcomes come from constructive challenge and collective problem-solving.

As PMO Lead, you will help provide the structure, control and insight needed to support effective programme delivery. You will work across programme workstreams to help ensure planning, governance, reporting, risk management and assurance activity are clear, consistent and well managed. You will support effective decision-making by helping the programme maintain robust information, clear delivery controls and high-quality reporting. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future operating model of one of the UK’s most high-profile home ownership public services. You will work closely with colleagues across a range of specialisms to design and deliver an integrated, coherent and defensible service model. One that can stand up to scrutiny from governance forums, audit and value-for-money assessments while delivering long-term benefits for the Agency and our customers.

A bit about you. You will be a confident PMO professional with experience of working in a complex programme environment. You will understand the importance of strong governance, disciplined planning and clear reporting, and you will be comfortable bringing structure and pace to work that involves multiple stakeholders, dependencies and delivery priorities. You'll have experience of tracking delivery against an integrated plan and of managing suppliers' performance. You will be highly organised, analytical and proactive, with the ability to turn complex information into clear insight that supports effective decision-making. You will be confident working with senior stakeholders, programme teams and delivery leads, helping to identify risks, track progress and maintain a clear view of programme performance. You will also understand the importance of delivering public services responsibly. You will bring a collaborative and constructive approach, building trusted relationships across the programme and supporting colleagues to work in a consistent, transparent and controlled way. You will be comfortable challenging where needed, while remaining pragmatic and solutions-focused.

Who are we? Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency. We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people's lives. As the government's housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we're accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come. Help to Buy, alongside other products in our portfolio, provided equity loans to support people onto the housing ladder. Homes England is the legal lender for these loans and now manages one of the largest residential mortgage portfolios in the country. While no new loans are being issued, the service remains critical. Our role is to ensure customers are supported to understand, manage and redeem their loan with confidence, while safeguarding public money through fair, proportionate and well controlled financial management.

What we offer. As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what matters to you. Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency. Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site. If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. If you are a member of a professional body, we'll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you'll be good to go. Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. We're a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities. Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country.

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.