Governance and Enablement Lead

Salary: £118,750 - 141,250 per year

Requirements:

• Significant PMO Lead, Portfolio PMO or Governance experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience working with senior leaders.
• Knowledge of portfolio, programme and project governance best practices, ideally including P3O approaches.
• A strong understanding of risks, controls, assurance and delivery oversight.
• Previous project or programme management experience.
• The ability to take a strategic view and understand the bigger picture.
• Experience within Financial Services or another regulated environment would be highly desirable.
• A strong communicator and relationship builder.
• Comfortable challenging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, with an eye on cost, benefit and delivery outcomes.
• Dynamic, engaging and proactive in your approach.
• Someone who can balance governance with enabling delivery, rather than creating bureaucracy.

Responsibilities:

• Embedding and operating change governance frameworks across a portfolio of programmes.
• Providing assurance, insight and decision support to senior stakeholders.
• Leading portfolio governance activities and ensuring adherence to established standards and controls.
• Acting as the governance lead across a range of business and technology change initiatives.
• Producing high-quality reporting, dashboards and decision-making materials for senior stakeholders.
• Facilitating governance forums, steering committees and portfolio reviews.
• Providing oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, milestones and financial performance.
• Supporting Delivery Leads by acting as the eyes and ears across portfolio activity.
• Driving consistency in reporting, controls and delivery assurance.
• Helping teams navigate governance requirements while enabling successful change delivery.

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We are supporting a major financial services organisation as they look to appoint two Governance & Enablement Leads to join a large-scale change and transformation function. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced PMO or Governance Lead to play a key role across a portfolio of strategic business and technology change initiatives. You will act as a trusted partner to Delivery Leads, ensuring robust governance, high-quality reporting and effective decision-making across complex programmes. The role is a 3-month initial contract inside IR35 with hybrid working, typically one day per week onsite and potentially less depending on portfolio assignment.

last updated 34 week of 2026