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Program Management Office Manager
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About the Company
We are looking for an experienced and strategic PMO G6 to lead programme governance, planning, reporting and risk management across a complex and high-profile programme environment.
About the Role
This is a senior leadership role, providing the framework, standards and insight that enable effective programme decision-making. You will set the strategic direction for programme governance and ensure that senior leaders have a clear, accurate and timely understanding of progress, performance, risks and emerging issues.
Responsibilities
- Set the strategic direction for programme governance, planning and reporting.
- Lead and develop the PMO function, establishing high standards, effective ways of working and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Design, implement and maintain proportionate governance frameworks for a complex programme environment.
- Oversee governance, decision-making and reporting cycles, ensuring that information is timely, accurate and focused on what senior leaders need to know.
- Develop PMO standards, tools and processes that improve consistency, transparency and delivery confidence.
- Ensure robust insight into workstream progress, performance, dependencies and emerging issues is maintained at central programme level.
- Translate complex programme information into clear, actionable insight for senior leadership.
- Lead major programme risk reviews and develop risk management standards, capability and assurance.
- Ensure that aggregate risk is understood across the programme and appropriately reflected in investment and strategic decision-making.
- Support senior leaders and ministers by providing clear, evidence-based assurance on programme performance, risk and delivery confidence.
- Contribute to and engage with cross-government PMO and risk management communities, sharing best practice and driving continuous improvement.
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Qualifications
Experience of working on organisational mergers in either the public or private sector, ideally involving significant scale, complexity or transformation.
Required Skills
- Experience of managing a complex PMO function at G7 level or above, with a demonstrable impact on governance quality, programme control and reporting standards.
- A strong track record of designing and implementing governance frameworks for complex programmes or portfolios.
- Experience of using programme and portfolio insight to support effective, timely decision-making by senior leaders.
- Proven experience of leading, developing and motivating a PMO team.
- Experience of contributing to or engaging with cross-government PMO communities, professional networks or equivalent communities of practice.
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Preferred Skills
You will bring deep expertise in:
- PMO governance frameworks and best practice.
- Advanced planning, performance management and reporting approaches.
- Designing proportionate and effective governance arrangements for complex delivery environments.
- Risk management strategy and relevant government risk frameworks.
- The relationship between aggregate programme risk, investment decisions and ministerial confidence.
- NISTA review expectations and cross-government risk management standards.
Pay range and compensation package
Salary: Competitive, in line with Civil Service terms and conditions
Grade: G6
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Leeds/London Offices
Contract: Fixed Term until March 2027
Closing date: 21st September 2026
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