Programme / Project Management Office (PMO) Manager

THIS JOB HAS NOW CLOSED

Job details

Location:
Home-based – all our roles are available office-based, hybrid or home-based

Hours:
Full time

Contract:
Permanent

Salary:
£58,552.58 plus excellent benefits

Closing date:
5 August, 2024 11:59 pm

Programme / Project Management Office (PMO) Manager

As our PMO Manager, you will play a pivotal role developing and maintaining project and change management standards, methodologies, and governance processes, and support organisation-wide capabilities to ensure the successful delivery of programmes, projects and key service improvement activities.

It’s an exciting opportunity for an experienced project management professional to shape the emerging and future priorities of our rapidly expanding organisation.

Specifically, as a member of the Corporate & Information Governance management team, and reporting to the Head of Service, your responsibilities will include:

Developing the PMO delivery strategy and framework with organisational goals, ensuring projects contribute to overall objectives.
Overseeing and guiding the PMO line managed and ‘virtual’ teams, providing direction, support, and mentorship to PMO leads and wider service project managers and support teams.
Managing and prioritising the organisation’s programme / project / service improvement portfolio(s), aligning projects with business priorities and resource capacities.
Allocating and optimising resources, ensuring teams have the necessary tools and support to deliver activities on time, in scope and within budget.

For this newly created role, you’ll possess substantial experience of working in a public sector setting in a programme/project lead role, with a track record that evidences your success in implementing best practice and continuously improving methodologies.

You’ll be excellent at project planning and implementation and will be experienced in using a breadth of project management tools and techniques to ensure strategically important projects are delivered in line with milestones, timescales and budgets.

You’ll have strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to extract and document requirements from end users and translate business issues into development solutions.

In addition to the salary offered, we also offer a range of other benefits including a commitment to a healthy work / life balance, including a 35-hour working week.

For further details, please download the information pack. We hope you choose to contribute your skills to the evolution of our ambitious, influential and rapidly expanding organisation. When applying, within your supporting statement, please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification and evidence how you meet it.

CLOSING DATE: 23.59 on Monday 5th August 2024 (amended)

PLEASE NOTE: Following unprecedented interest in our vacancies, we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date (close it early). The role will be closed to new applications immediately if / when we receive 100 applications or at the stated closing date – whichever occurs first. Applications after the role has closed cannot be accepted. We therefore strongly recommend applying as soon as possible.

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity. We have an environment that is inclusive and recognises the value of difference in the workplace.

Supporting documents

https://housing-ombudsman-careers.org.uk/2021/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PMO-Manager.pdf