PSO/PMO Lead

Your new company

My clients are looking for a PMO Lead who is available to take on a challenging PMO Lead role.

This role is a 6-month rolling contract and paying £550 per day inside scope of IR35.

This role is remote working with the possible odd travel to the office.

This role also requires someone who has active government SC Clearance.

Anyone without an active government SC clearance will not be considered.

Your new role

Essential behaviours

Ability to communicate effectively with Stakeholders at diff level

Tenacity, persistence

Drive to move beyond blockers

Good communications skills, can adapt delivery vehicle to receiver and message links to readership

Good influencing skills

Curiosity to seek and drive improvements

Ability to learn/use Home Office tools to support their outputs

Essential skills

• Microsoft packages TEAMS, SharePoint, excel, project, PowerPoint, WORD
• Jira
• CoPilot (or other AI support tools)
• Stakeholder mgmt. across different level of mgmt.
• Knowledge and experience of project methodologies

Desirable skill

• Microsoft: power bi

PSO Role

A hands-on support role embedded within the portfolio or specific project management teams.

Typical responsibilities

Maintaining RAID logs, plans, schedules, actions

Producing weekly/monthly reports and MI

Supporting governance meetings and follow-ups

Tracking risks, issues, and dependencies

Supporting delivery managers and programme leads with admin and coordination

Drive staff onboarding activities, communicating beyond department boundaries to support SAS Engineering and Delivery staff

PMO Role

A central function that sets standards, provides oversight, and enables delivery across projects, programmes, or portfolios.

Typical responsibilities

Helps define delivery standards, frameworks, and controls

Portfolio and Engineering level reporting , risk & issue oversight, dependency management

Escalation and assurance to senior leadership

Resource, financial, and delivery insight across multiple initiatives

Supports a single source of truth for delivery status

Can help put in place tracking and controls on projects and programmes

Will escalate key issues, risks and dependencies

What you'll need to succeed

This isn't a regular PMO Lead role as my clients are looking for someone with the above skillset but also the resilience and tenacity of a strong personality who can thrive in a challenging environment.

If you have worked in a similar environment previously and/or feel up for a challenge, feel free to send me your CV.