At a Glance
- Tasks: Support governance and assurance in a complex engineering transformation programme.
- Company: Join a long-standing public sector client with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career advancement in a supportive team.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment while enhancing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in PMO/PSO roles and strong stakeholder management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Length: 12 Months (extensions likely)
Work Location: Hybrid (2 office days per week, between London & Sheffield offices)
Clearance Required To Apply: Unelapsed SC clearance
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Industry: Public Services / Government
Interview Process: MS Teams, 1 Stage
We are supporting a long-standing public sector client in securing a strong PMO with project support experience to support a complex engineering strategy transformation programme. This role sits within a large-scale technical transformation environment, supporting delivery governance across multiple portfolios and workstreams involving engineering teams. The successful candidate will have a large capability, helping to drive governance control, assurance, escalation management, dependency coordination, RAID oversight, financial tracking and delivery reporting across a complex programme environment. The client requires someone confident operating independently, challenging delivery information, supporting control processes and producing clear, decision-grade reporting for senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Support governance, control and assurance activity across a complex engineering transformation programme
- Maintain and improve programme reporting, ensuring delivery data is accurate, consistent and decision-ready
- Support RAID management, including risk and issue tracking, escalation, dependency coordination and re-baselining activity
- Work closely with engineering teams, technical IT teams, developers and delivery stakeholders to gather updates and track progress
- Support portfolio and workstream-level planning, tracking, reporting and delivery governance
- Assist with project control boards, governance forums, assurance reviews and quality review meetings
- Support financial tracking, forecasting, variance analysis and public-sector financial governance processes
- Help monitor delivery performance and recommend corrective actions where performance is off-track
- Maintain project artefacts, logs, reports, governance packs and audit-ready documentation
- Support the use of PMO / PSO tooling, including reporting tools, planning systems and project management platforms
- Provide proactive PMO support across change control, dependency tracking, governance reviews and senior reporting
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO standards, reporting processes and delivery controls
Essential Skills:
- Strong PMO / PSO experience within complex IT transformation or engineering-led delivery environments
- Experience supporting governance, assurance, reporting and control processes across multiple workstreams or portfolios
- Strong RAID management experience, including escalation tracking, issue management, dependency coordination and re-baselining support
- Experience working closely with engineering, technical IT, DevOps or developer teams
- Strong reporting capability, including extracting data, validating updates and producing management reports
- Good understanding of delivery governance, project controls and assurance in a public sector or regulated environment
- Experience supporting financial tracking, forecasting, budget reporting or variance management
- Confident stakeholder management skills across delivery, technical and senior stakeholder groups
- Ability to challenge delivery information and support outcome/control-focused reporting, not just process administration
- Experience using standard PMO / project management tools and governance artefacts
- Strong attention to detail, follow-through and ability to operate independently in a busy programme environment
- Ability to work on-site in London regularly, initially up to 2–3 days per week where required
Desirable Skills:
- Experience within public sector, government or security-sensitive environments
- PRINCE2 Foundation, P3O Foundation or equivalent PMO / project delivery certification
- Experience working in Agile, DevOps or engineering-led delivery environments
- Experience using PMO / reporting tools
- Familiarity with project control boards, assurance reviews, delivery governance and audit reporting
- Experience supporting large-scale engineering or technology transformation programmes
Project Management Officer (SC Cleared) in England employer: Montash
Montash is an excellent employer that values innovation and collaboration, providing a dynamic work environment in Glasgow. With a strong focus on employee growth, we offer extensive training and development opportunities, alongside a flexible hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering impactful technology solutions in the public sector.
