PSO/PMO Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active government SC clearance is required; candidates without it will not be considered.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels.
• Strong tenacity, persistence, and resilience.
• Ability to drive progress beyond blockers.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt the message to the audience.
• Good influencing skills.
• Curiosity and a mindset focused on continuous improvement.
• Ability to learn and use Home Office tools to support delivery.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience using Jira.
• Experience using CoPilot or other AI support tools.
• Experience managing stakeholders across different management levels.
• Knowledge and experience of project methodologies.
• Power BI experience is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain RAID logs, plans, schedules, and actions.
• Produce weekly and monthly reports and management information.
• Support governance meetings and follow up on actions.
• Track risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support delivery managers and programme leads with administration and coordination.
• Drive staff onboarding activities.
• Communicate across department boundaries to support SAS Engineering and Delivery staff.
• Help define delivery standards, frameworks, and controls.
• Provide portfolio- and engineering-level reporting, risk and issue oversight, and dependency management.
• Support escalation and assurance to senior leadership.
• Provide resource, financial, and delivery insight across multiple initiatives.
• Support a single source of truth for delivery status.
• Help implement tracking and controls on projects and programmes.
• Escalate key issues, risks, and dependencies.

Technologies:

• AI
• Copilot
• Excel
• Support
• JIRA
• Power BI
• SAS
• SharePoint
• Embedded

More:

We are offering a challenging 6-month rolling contract for a PMO Lead, paid at £550 per day inside IR35. The role is remote, with the possibility of occasional travel to the office. We are looking for someone who thrives in a demanding environment and brings resilience, tenacity, and strong stakeholder management skills to support delivery across portfolio and project teams.

last updated 33 week of 2026