Role: PMO Lead REF 105024
Contract Length: Until 21/12/2026
Location: Hybrid/Aberdeen – 2-3 days per week on site
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £557.42 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a PMO Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PMO LEAD
- Supporting business leads and operational PMO managers in establishing and setting up projects and programmes for success.
- Setting delivery standards, ways of working, templates and controls across the organisation (including support and evolution of the PM Delivery Framework).
- Leading the delivery of discrete projects or complex workstreams, from initiation through to closure, including scope definition, planning, dependency management, risk control and benefits realisation.
- Managing key project and programme processes including monitoring and reporting, risk & issue management, planning and governance, translating complex delivery information into clear, actionable insight for key stakeholders.
- Designing, implementing and continuously improving programme and portfolio governance, ensuring it is proportionate, outcome focused and supports decision making.
- Coordinating across client with other functions and stakeholders, such as finance and commercial, to collate cross functional inputs and prepare reports.
- Working closely with the shareholder teams to ensure a common understanding of deliverables, consistency of reporting and sharing best practice.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PMO LEAD
- Have experience in delivering either complex or high-risk projects or programmes within an agreed time, cost and quality constraint.
- Be adaptable when applying knowledge of project management tools and methodologies, able to design and tailor delivery structures, governance and controls to suit an organisation at an early stage of maturity.
- Have practical experience in actively managing project risks and issues, able to make decisions, engage in dialogue on risk management strategy, and demonstrate a level of skill beyond simply 'managing a process'.
- Be experienced and credible in dealing with a broad and complex range of stakeholders both in writing and in person, with the confidence to engage with senior leadership.
- Have a proactive stakeholder engagement approach, seeking out opportunities to effectively communicate and influence.
- Be solutions focused, able to apply your skills to a range of risks, with a sound understanding of how they relate to wider strategy.
- Be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in an environment characterised by ambiguity, change and competing priorities, helping to shape clarity and direction as the organisation develops.
- You will have, or be working towards, a recognised accreditation in professional project management, such as;
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- MSP Practitioner
- Agile Project Management Practitioner
- APM Practitioner Qualification
- APM Chartered Project Professional (ChPP)
- Civil Service Project Leadership Programme
If you are a PMO Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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