Programme Management Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Experience establishing or transforming a Programme Management Office (PMO) within a complex programme, portfolio or organisational environment, including designing governance, reporting, controls and ways of working.
• Strong project delivery expertise, with experience implementing programme controls including planning, risk and issue management, dependency management, assurance, benefits management and change control.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled change, with the ability to work effectively with digital, data and technology professionals and apply programme management disciplines within a technology delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with experience influencing senior decision-makers and driving delivery across multiple teams and organisational boundaries.
• A recognised project, programme or PMO qualification, such as Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), APM ChPP, MoP or equivalent.
• Experience working within government, arms-length bodies or other large, complex public sector organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the Programme Management Office for a high-profile and complex cross-government programme.
• Create the governance, controls, reporting and assurance arrangements required to support effective decision-making and successful programme delivery.

Technologies:

• Support
• ARM
• C++

More:

Our client is seeking an experienced Programme Management Lead for a 6-month hybrid role based in London, Manchester or Bristol, with 1-3 days per week on-site. The programme is establishing the foundations needed to support long-term technology modernisation and legacy remediation across the public sector.

last updated 34 week of 2026