At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead governance and reporting for transformative projects, ensuring effective decision-making.
- Company: Dynamic organisation focused on innovative project management and transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to continuous improvement and excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving project success and enhancing governance frameworks.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership in PMO, advanced Microsoft Office skills, and recognised project management qualifications.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Key Responsibilities
- Governance & Secretariat: Lead the provision of governance and secretariat services to the Programme Board, ensuring clear decision-making, effective escalation routes, and robust governance frameworks.
- Reporting & Insight: Own the development and delivery of high-quality, timely reporting and dashboards, providing actionable insight, challenge, and narrative to support senior stakeholder decision-making.
- Planning & Controls: Oversee integrated programme planning, including the Portfolio schedule, Critical Milestone log, and Plan-on-a-Page (Po AP); ensure effective change control processes are in place, with impacts clearly assessed and managed.
- RAID & Dependency
Management: Lead the proactive management of Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies (RAID), driving mitigation strategies and ensuring visibility and accountability across the programme.
- Financial Oversight: Process Purchase Orders, receipting and management, aligning to budget spend to ensure accurate accounting each month to enable reporting.
- Stakeholder & Delivery
Alignment: Partner with Project Managers and work stream leads to ensure consistent standards, timely delivery of outputs, and adherence to governance requirements.
- PMO Leadership & Capability
Development: Lead and develop the PMO function, driving the adoption and continuous improvement of project management methodologies, processes, tools, and templates.
Essential Requirements
- Strong leadership experience within a PMO or Portfolio Management environment, ideally in a complex transformation programme.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Power Point, MS Project) and reporting tools.
- Recognised Project/Programme Management qualification (e. g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, APM).
- Proven experience in programme controls, including planning, risk management, and change control.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability, with the ability to translate data into insight for senior stakeholders.
- Experience of financial management and benefits tracking within a programme environment.
- Demonstrable experience of managing third‑party suppliers and contractors, ensuring quality and value for money.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to influence at senior levels.
- Collaborative, proactive, and delivery‑focused leadership style.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives.
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Contact Details:
Sanderson Government & Defence Recruitment Team
