Project Management Officer (SC Cleared)

Role: Project Management Officer (SC Cleared)

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Length: 12 Months (extensions likely)

Work Location: Hybrid (2 office days per week, between London & Sheffield offices)

Clearance Required To Apply: Unelapsed SC clearance

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Industry: Public Services / Government

Interview Process: MS Teams, 1 Stage

We are supporting a long-standing public sector client in securing a strong PMO with project support experience to support a complex engineering strategy transformation programme.

This role sits within a large-scale technical transformation environment, supporting delivery governance across multiple portfolios and workstreams involving engineering teams. The successful candidate will have a large capability, helping to drive governance control, assurance, escalation management, dependency coordination, RAID oversight, financial tracking and delivery reporting across a complex programme environment.

The client requires someone confident operating independently, challenging delivery information, supporting control processes and producing clear, decision-grade reporting for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Support governance, control and assurance activity across a complex engineering transformation programme
• Maintain and improve programme reporting, ensuring delivery data is accurate, consistent and decision-ready
• Support RAID management, including risk and issue tracking, escalation, dependency coordination and re-baselining activity
• Work closely with engineering teams, technical IT teams, developers and delivery stakeholders to gather updates and track progress
• Support portfolio and workstream-level planning, tracking, reporting and delivery governance
• Assist with project control boards, governance forums, assurance reviews and quality review meetings
• Support financial tracking, forecasting, variance analysis and public-sector financial governance processes
• Help monitor delivery performance and recommend corrective actions where performance is off-track
• Maintain project artefacts, logs, reports, governance packs and audit-ready documentation
• Support the use of PMO / PSO tooling, including reporting tools, planning systems and project management platforms
• Provide proactive PMO support across change control, dependency tracking, governance reviews and senior reporting
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO standards, reporting processes and delivery controls

Essential Skills:

• Strong PMO / PSO experience within complex IT transformation or engineering-led delivery environments
• Experience supporting governance, assurance, reporting and control processes across multiple workstreams or portfolios
• Strong RAID management experience, including escalation tracking, issue management, dependency coordination and re-baselining support
• Experience working closely with engineering, technical IT, DevOps or developer teams
• Strong reporting capability, including extracting data, validating updates and producing management reports
• Good understanding of delivery governance, project controls and assurance in a public sector or regulated environment
• Experience supporting financial tracking, forecasting, budget reporting or variance management
• Confident stakeholder management skills across delivery, technical and senior stakeholder groups
• Ability to challenge delivery information and support outcome/control-focused reporting, not just process administration
• Experience using standard PMO / project management tools and governance artefacts
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through and ability to operate independently in a busy programme environment
• Ability to work on-site in London regularly, initially up to 2–3 days per week where required

Desirable Skills

• Experience within public sector, government or security-sensitive environments
• PRINCE2 Foundation, P3O Foundation or equivalent PMO / project delivery certification
• Experience working in Agile, DevOps or engineering-led delivery environments
• Experience using PMO / reporting tools
• Familiarity with project control boards, assurance reviews, delivery governance and audit reporting
• Experience supporting large-scale engineering or technology transformation programmes