PMO Manager - Project Delivery and Major Events

Posting date:	16 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	15 June 2025
Location:	Manchester, M2 3AW
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75702590

Summary

Job summary

We currently have around 100 project delivery professionals within DCMS and around 18,000 working across Government. These colleagues work as project, programme and portfolio managers or in specialist roles such as risk and issues managers and project planners.

A career in the Government Project Delivery Profession enables you to make a difference; improving our public services while building and developing your professional skills. Your career here could take you from climate change projects to building new hospitals or schools to equipping our armed forces. The variety and significance of roles is unparalleled.

Our mission is to attract and retain the best individuals by providing a rewarding career, supporting continuous professional development through our robust learning offering which includes accredited and apprenticeship qualifications, and shaping our community in a way that you can all feel inspired by.

For more information on the Project Delivery Profession, please see the Project Delivery Capability Framework which has been created to support the development of all project delivery professionals across government.

Job description

The post holder will own the next stage of setup for an Integrated Programme Management Office (PMO), led by DCMS.This will include designing and implementing an PMO structure across HMG delivery partners and leadership of workstreams to ensure we are implementing high-quality practices. The post holder will report into the G6 Head of PMO.

Job Responsibilities:

• Seeking out and developing first class PMO practices, and working to set the programme up for successful delivery. Providing direction and guidance on deploying best practices across the programme and supporting colleagues.
• Manage the governance for the programme, owning the regular rhythm of internal, cross-Government and reporting requirements.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with internal and external project stakeholders. Actively engaging senior level stakeholders when required.
• Create and manage internal assurance for the programme and manage our external assurance process with National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
• Supporting the successful delivery of the programme by leading risk and issue management, benefits management, and owning the programme plan.
• Supporting a multidisciplinary team, with colleagues from different professions, including Policy, Analysis, Commercial and Finance.
• This role will have line management or task management opportunities of up to 2 SEOs and 1 HEO, with a focus on supporting role and career development.

Person specification

The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience:

Essential requirements:

• Programme Management Office (PMO) - Experience of leading a PMO function in a major programme or, if a Civil Servant, experience of working in a Major Government Project (GMPP)
• Governance and Controls - Proven experience of developing and managing high quality governance structures, including leading on establishing and operating project controls and reporting on project progress and status to appropriate bodies.
• Effective Planning - Proven experience of developing complex programme plans, including defining scope, deliverables, time scales, resource requirements and budget.
• Benefits Management - Experience of identifying, quantifying and tracking the many benefits of the programme, putting in place our benefits management approach.
• Risk and Issue Management - Experience of establishing robust processes and standards for managing risks and issues.

Desirable Skills:

• Line Management Experience - especially experience of helping teams to develop in their roles and careers.
• A recognised Project and/or Programme Management qualification - e.g. APMQ / MSP / PRINCE2, PLP

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Benefits Management (Project Delivery Capability Framework)

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Indiana Oakthorn and Imogen Adie, and will take place on:

• 28th May at 12:00pm

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please register your interest by filling out this registration form by 27th May at 12:00pm and you will be sent an invitation.

Please note that the session will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk

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