Risk Management Consultant

This PMO role within a growing SME business within Defence, IT and Cyber fields will combine operational coordination with assured delivery alignment and people development.

Key Functions & Deliverables:

• Cross-Project Coordination: Maintains a single view of all active client engagements, aligns timelines, milestones, and deliverables, identifies clashes and sequencing risks early, and acts as the coordination hub between project leads.
• Resource Scheduling & Utilisation: Allocates consultants across concurrent projects, balances utilisation and avoids over/under-allocation, and adjusts assignments dynamically as priorities shift.
• Delivery Synchronisation: Aligns interdependent workstreams, coordinates shared SMEs across projects, and manages handoffs to ensure continuity.
• Governance & Standards: Provides simple, consistent ways of working, supplies practical templates and tools, and applies proportionate structure informed by Project Management Institute practices where useful.
• Centralised Reporting & Visibility: Delivers clear oversight across all engagements, tracks progress, risks, and utilisation, and enables timely decision-making by leadership.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Identifies and manages cross-project risks, tracks dependencies and resolves conflicts, focusing on fast, pragmatic issue resolution.
• Client Delivery Assurance: Supports consistent, high-quality delivery, provides guidance to project leads where needed, and intervenes early on at-risk engagements.
• Financial & Commercial Tracking: Monitors budgets, cash outflow rates, and margins, tracks utilisation and revenue performance, and flags scope and commercial risks.
• Knowledge Sharing & Reuse: Promotes reuse of assets, templates, and approaches, shares lessons learned across engagements, and improves efficiency and consistency.
• Capacity Building: Embeds good project management practices within day-to-day delivery, supports consultants in structuring and executing client work, reinforces consistency in approach across engagements, contributes to a more scalable and self-sufficient delivery model, and supports business growth.
• Training & Development: Provides targeted and informal training on core consulting and project delivery skills, delivers practical sessions (e.g. planning, stakeholder management, risk handling), identifies development needs across the team, and supports continuous professional development aligned to business needs.
• Line/Team Management: Provides line management for junior consultants, sets objectives, monitors performance, and supports progression, conducts regular feedback and performance reviews, supports wellbeing, engagement, and retention, and helps shape career pathways within the consultancy.
• Software and Workflow Tools: Effective familiarity with all regular office software products and specific project management toolsets (e.g. Jira, Microsoft Project), ensuring consistent and coherent usage and visibility across the business.

Please express an initial interest through the provision of either an up-to-date CV or the link to an appropriately extensive and current LinkedIn profile.

You must either currently hold UK security clearance to SC level, or be a UK passport holder and have been resident in the UK for the last 5 continuous years to be able to gain (or regain) UK SC clearance.