Senior Project Management Office Specialist

Responsibilities

• Governance & Standards
• Maintain and continuously improve the PMO framework, methodologies, templates, and ways of working.
• Embed consistent project lifecycle controls (stage gates, approvals, baselines) across the portfolio.
• Champion adherence to delivery standards and coach project teams on best practice.
• Portfolio Reporting & Insight
• Produce accurate portfolio dashboards and status reporting.
• Consolidate project-level data into portfolio-level insight, highlighting trends, slippage, and dependencies.
• Planning & Financial Control
• Support project planning, milestone tracking, and resource/capacity management.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, and actuals; flag variances and support financial governance.
• Maintain the portfolio roadmap and ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Maintain RAID logs at portfolio level; ensure risks and issues are escalated and actioned.
• Track cross-project dependencies and coordinate resolution with delivery leads.
• Assurance & Continuous Improvement
• Conduct project health checks and quality reviews.
• Drive process improvements and uplift PMO maturity across the function.

Requirements

• Essential
• Demonstrable experience in a PMO or project controls role, ideally within a technology/delivery environment.
• Strong working knowledge of project and programme governance, lifecycle, and methodologies
• Advanced reporting and data-handling skills
• Confident stakeholder management up to senior leadership level.
• Excellent organisation, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Key Competencies
• Governance and process discipline
• Analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Clear, audience-appropriate communication
• Proactive risk identification
• Collaboration across delivery teams
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Desirable
• Experience with portfolio/PPM and Jira-based delivery tooling.
• Exposure to financial tracking and resource management at portfolio scale.

Benefits

Additional Information

The Senior Project Management Office Specialist underpins the IT - PMO & Delivery function by establishing and maintaining the governance, standards, controls, and reporting that keep the project and programme portfolio on track. The role acts as a trusted point of coordination across delivery teams.

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