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Job Title: DV Cleared PMO Planner
Location: Basingstoke
Duration: 6 Months with possible extension
Rate: Up to £500 per day via an approved umbrella company
Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required
The PMO Planner provides planning and scheduling expertise to support effective delivery of the programme. The role is accountable for maintaining integrated, accurate, and assurance-ready plans, providing clear visibility of progress, dependencies, milestones, and risks, and enabling informed decision-making by Programme and PMO leadership.
The PMO Planner works closely with Project Managers, Programme Managers, and other PMO specialists to ensure planning standards are consistently applied and embedded throughout the programme lifecycle.
Planning & Scheduling
- Develop, maintain, and assure integrated project schedules in line with agreed planning standards and governance.
- Establish and manage baseline plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
- Maintain alignment between master programme plans and individual project schedules.
- Ensure schedule logic is robust and supports effective impact analysis.
- Identify and manage interdependencies across multiple projects and workstreams.
Progress Tracking & Reporting
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- Track progress against plan, identifying variance, slippage, and emerging risks.
- Produce schedule performance metrics and planning inputs for programme reporting, governance forums, and customer reviews.
- Support the preparation of planning views for performance packs, dashboards, and assurance activities.
Standards, Quality & Assurance
- Apply and promote planning best practice, ensuring compliance with PMO standards, contractual requirements, and audit expectations.
- Support planning assurance activities, including schedule health checks and internal reviews.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes, templates, and tools.
- Ensure planning information remains accurate, auditable, and fit for purpose.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a trusted partner to Project and Programme Managers, providing planning expertise and constructive challenge where required.
- Support recovery planning activities as needed.
- Build strong working relationships across programme teams and stakeholders.
Skills & Experience Required
- Proven experience in a PMO Planning or Project Scheduling role within complex project or programme environments.
- Strong understanding of programme and project lifecycle planning.
- Experience maintaining integrated schedules across multiple workstreams or projects.
- High attention to detail with a strong commitment to data accuracy and governance.
- Ability to communicate planning information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder management and organisational skills.
- Experience supporting programme governance and assurance activities.
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Technical Skills
- Microsoft Project or equivalent planning and scheduling tools.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel.
- Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
- SharePoint and programme document repositories.
- Experience producing programme dashboards and reporting packs.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised and methodical, with strong analytical capability.
- Proactive, with the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Collaborative and customer-focused.
- Professional, resilient, and delivery-oriented.
- Able to thrive in fast-paced and evolving programme environments
If you are an experienced PMO Planner looking for your next contract opportunity, apply now to join a team delivering critical and impactful programmes.
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