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My clients are looking for a PMO Lead who is available to take on a challenging PMO Lead role. This role is a 6-month rolling contract and paying £550 per day inside scope of IR35. This role is remote working with the possible odd travel to the office. This role also requires someone who has active government SC Clearance. Anyone without an active government SC clearance will not be considered.
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Essential behaviours
- Ability to communicate effectively with Stakeholders at different levels
- Tenacity, persistence
- Drive to move beyond blockers
- Good communications skills, can adapt delivery vehicle to receiver and message links to readership
- Good influencing skills
- Curiosity to seek and drive improvements
- Ability to learn/use Home Office tools to support their outputs
Essential skills
- Microsoft packages: TEAMS, SharePoint, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, WORD
- Jira
- CoPilot (or other AI support tools)
- Stakeholder management across different levels of management
- Knowledge and experience of project methodologies
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PSO Role
A hands-on support role embedded within the portfolio or specific project management teams.
Typical responsibilities
- Maintaining RAID logs, plans, schedules, actions
- Producing weekly/monthly reports and MI
- Supporting governance meetings and follow-ups
- Tracking risks, issues, and dependencies
- Supporting delivery managers and programme leads with admin and coordination
- Drive staff onboarding activities, communicating beyond department boundaries to support SAS Engineering and Delivery staff
PMO Role
A central function that sets standards, provides oversight, and enables delivery across projects, programmes, or portfolios.
Typical responsibilities
- Helps define delivery standards, frameworks, and controls
- Portfolio and Engineering level reporting, risk & issue oversight, dependency management
- Escalation and assurance to senior leadership
- Resource, financial, and delivery insight across multiple initiatives
- Supports a single source of truth for delivery status
- Can help put in place tracking and controls on projects and programmes
- Will escalate key issues, risks and dependencies
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What you'll need to succeed
This isn't a regular PMO Lead role as my clients are looking for someone with the above skillset but also the resilience and tenacity of a strong personality who can thrive in a challenging environment. If you have worked in a similar environment previously and/or feel up for a challenge, feel free to send me your CV.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Due to the high number of calls, please refrain from calling into the office but rather forward me your CV if you feel you're a good fit. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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