Project Management Officer (SC Cleared)
Posted 1 day ago by Montash
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Management Officer (PMO) role involves supporting a complex engineering transformation programme within a public sector client. The position requires strong governance, control, and assurance capabilities, with a focus on delivering accurate reporting and managing dependencies across multiple portfolios. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering and technical teams, ensuring effective project tracking and stakeholder communication. This role is hybrid, initially requiring on-site presence for knowledge transfer before transitioning to remote work with occasional office visits.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support governance, control and assurance activity across a complex engineering transformation programme
- Maintain and improve programme reporting, ensuring delivery data is accurate, consistent and decision-ready
- Support RAID management, including risk and issue tracking, escalation, dependency coordination and re-baselining activity
- Work closely with engineering teams, technical IT teams, developers and delivery stakeholders to gather updates and track progress
- Support portfolio and workstream-level planning, tracking, reporting and delivery governance
- Assist with project control boards, governance forums, assurance reviews and quality review meetings
- Support financial tracking, forecasting, variance analysis and public-sector financial governance processes
- Help monitor delivery performance and recommend corrective actions where performance is off-track
- Maintain project artefacts, logs, reports, governance packs and audit-ready documentation
- Support the use of PMO / PSO tooling, including reporting tools, planning systems and project management platforms
- Provide proactive PMO support across change control, dependency tracking, governance reviews and senior reporting
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO standards, reporting processes and delivery controls
Key Skills:
- Strong PMO / PSO experience within complex IT transformation or engineering-led delivery environments
- Experience supporting governance, assurance, reporting and control processes across multiple workstreams or portfolios
- Strong RAID management experience, including escalation tracking, issue management, dependency coordination and re-baselining support
- Experience working closely with engineering, technical IT, DevOps or developer teams
- Strong reporting capability, including extracting data, validating updates and producing management reports
- Good understanding of delivery governance, project controls and assurance in a public sector or regulated environment
- Experience supporting financial tracking, forecasting, budget reporting or variance management
- Confident stakeholder management skills across delivery, technical and senior stakeholder groups
- Ability to challenge delivery information and support outcome/control-focused reporting, not just process administration
- Experience using standard PMO / project management tools and governance artefacts
- Strong attention to detail, follow-through and ability to operate independently in a busy programme environment
- Ability to work on-site in London regularly, initially up to 2–3 days per week where required
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Project Management Officer
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Length: 12 Months (extensions likely)
Work Location: Hybrid initially, for knowledge transfer, then remote (2-3 office days per week, between London & Sheffield offices)
Clearance Required To Apply: Unelapsed SC clearance
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Industry: Public Services / Government
Interview Process: MS Teams, 1 Stage
We are supporting a long-standing public sector client in securing a strong PMO with project support experience to support a complex engineering strategy transformation programme. This role sits within a large-scale technical transformation environment, supporting delivery governance across multiple portfolios and workstreams involving engineering teams. The successful candidate will have a large capability, helping to drive governance control, assurance, escalation management, dependency coordination, RAID oversight, financial tracking and delivery reporting across a complex programme environment. The client requires someone confident operating independently, challenging delivery information, supporting control processes and producing clear, decision-grade reporting for senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Support governance, control and assurance activity across a complex engineering transformation programme
- Maintain and improve programme reporting, ensuring delivery data is accurate, consistent and decision-ready
- Support RAID management, including risk and issue tracking, escalation, dependency coordination and re-baselining activity
- Work closely with engineering teams, technical IT teams, developers and delivery stakeholders to gather updates and track progress
- Support portfolio and workstream-level planning, tracking, reporting and delivery governance
- Assist with project control boards, governance forums, assurance reviews and quality review meetings
- Support financial tracking, forecasting, variance analysis and public-sector financial governance processes
- Help monitor delivery performance and recommend corrective actions where performance is off-track
- Maintain project artefacts, logs, reports, governance packs and audit-ready documentation
- Support the use of PMO / PSO tooling, including reporting tools, planning systems and project management platforms
- Provide proactive PMO support across change control, dependency tracking, governance reviews and senior reporting
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO standards, reporting processes and delivery controls
Essential Skills:
- Strong PMO / PSO experience within complex IT transformation or engineering-led delivery environments
- Experience supporting governance, assurance, reporting and control processes across multiple workstreams or portfolios
- Strong RAID management experience, including escalation tracking, issue management, dependency coordination and re-baselining support
- Experience working closely with engineering, technical IT, DevOps or developer teams
- Strong reporting capability, including extracting data, validating updates and producing management reports
- Good understanding of delivery governance, project controls and assurance in a public sector or regulated environment
- Experience supporting financial tracking, forecasting, budget reporting or variance management
- Confident stakeholder management skills across delivery, technical and senior stakeholder groups
- Ability to challenge delivery information and support outcome/control-focused reporting, not just process administration
- Experience using standard PMO / project management tools and governance artefacts
- Strong attention to detail, follow-through and ability to operate independently in a busy programme environment
- Ability to work on-site in London regularly, initially up to 2–3 days per week where required
Desirable Skills
- Experience within public sector, government or security-sensitive environments
- PRINCE2 Foundation, P3O Foundation or equivalent PMO / project delivery certification
- Experience working in Agile, DevOps or engineering-led delivery environments
- Experience using PMO / reporting tools
- Familiarity with project control boards, assurance reviews, delivery governance and audit reporting
- Experience supporting large-scale engineering or technology transformation programmes