PMO Professional
Posted 4 days ago by Experis
£420 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Birmingham, West Midlands
Summary: The PMO Professional role involves providing guidance and direction to team members while ensuring effective governance for project management processes. The position requires active participation in risk and change management, project reporting, and stakeholder engagement. The role is based in Birmingham or London and requires active SC clearance. This position is classified as inside IR35 and is only available through an umbrella company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as an escalation point for team members, providing guidance and direction.
- Set up or work within existing governance structures for risk and change management.
- Collaborate with project managers to meet reporting deadlines and maintain accurate project documents.
- Provide reports to support project management processes, including status updates.
- Create and own the project RAID log and other reporting trackers.
- Follow up on action logs with project team members.
- Provide accurate commercial forecasting using designated reporting tools.
- Track and monitor project progress and quality to ensure delivery within time, cost, and quality tolerances.
- Use project scheduling tools to create and monitor project plans, budgets, and expenditures.
- Keep the project manager informed about project status and issues affecting client relations.
- Participate in gateway reviews and project closure to identify corrective actions for future projects.
Key Skills:
- Good knowledge and experience of PMO roles and responsibilities.
- Experience in change management.
- Experience in delivering projects.
- Able to engage with a variety of stakeholders at different levels.
- Strong relationship management skills with key stakeholders.
Salary (Rate): £420/day
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
description: PMO Professional 6 months - with extensions Birmingham / London Inside IR35 - umbrella only Active SC clearance required
Accountabilities:
- Escalation point for Team Members, to provide guidance and direction to newer members of the team where needed.
- Set up or work within existing Governance structure for Risk and Change Management, Joiners, Movers and Leavers, Document Management, Boards Meetings/Minutes and Reporting.
- Work closely with Project Managers to ensure that project reporting deadlines are met, and project documents are updated accurately, stored on the relevant public/team folders and reflect accurate status ensuring clear understanding of progress for open/live projects.
- Provision of reports to support the project management process, including status reports/updates to the customer.
- Creation and ownership of the project RAID log.
- Creation and ownership of any other project or programme related trackers used for reporting to key stakeholders both internally and externally.
- Follow up action logs where appropriate with project team members.
- Provide accurate commercial forecasting using the designated reporting tools.
- Track and monitor the progress and quality of work being performed by the assigned Project team to ensure projects delivered to time, cost and quality tolerances including the timely provision of any document deliverables.
- Use project scheduling and control tools to create and monitor projects plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures for internal and external resource.
- Keep the Project Manager, and others, informed about project status and issues that may impact client relations.
- Participation in Gateway reviews including Project closure and lessons learnt review to determine any corrective actions that could be taken to improve future programme/project delivery in terms of cost, quality and customer satisfaction.
Skills: (Essential)
- Good knowledge and experience of PMO Roles and Responsibilities to aid coaching and support of the PMO Team.
- Good knowledge and experience of Change Management.
- Good knowledge and/or experience in delivering a project.
- Able to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders (at peer level and higher) to carry out the functions of the role.
- Maintain close liaison and strong relationships with key stakeholders in the operation of project delivery.
If you're a proactive, detail-oriented professional with a passion for project governance and delivery, we'd love to hear from you. Join our client's team and help drive successful project outcomes!