Senior PMO Manger
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Position at ISP Central
ISP Senior PMO Manger
Role Profile
Purpose of the role
The Senior PMO Manager (SPMOM) will establish and run a Group PMO that provides consistent governance transparency and delivery discipline across all Group-led projects and transformation initiatives whilst providing consistency in approach and PMO methodology for all Divisional/Regional/ Functional or School specific projects.
The SPMOM will also act as the single source of truth for programme status risks interdependencies and delivery confidence at Group and Board level.
Reports to: Group Head of Transformation Change and PMO
ISP Principles
Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.
Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.
Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.
Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children students and our schools.
Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.
ISP SPMOM Key Responsibilities
- Establish new PMO set-up and define optimal operating model
- Design implement and continuously improve the GroupPMOoperating model including standards templates tools and ways of working.
- Define and enforce programme and project governance stage gates reporting cadence and decision forums.
- Ensure clear ownership accountability and escalation routes across Group Divisional and Regional projects and initiatives.
- Portfolio & programme management
- Maintain a Group-wide portfolio view of all strategic and transformation projects and initiatives.
- Track delivery against milestones benefits risks dependencies and resourcing.
- Identify and proactively manage cross-programme dependencies and delivery conflicts.
- Allocate resources effectively across Projects ensuring projects are suitably staffed and managed.
- Support prioritisation and sequencing of initiatives in line with strategic capacity and value.
- Reporting & executive insight.
- Produce clear concise and credible reporting for ExCo SteerCo and Board-level forums.
- Translate complex delivery data into decision-ready insights not activity updates.
- Provide early warning on delivery confidence slippage or emerging risks.
- Risk issue & dependency management
- Own the Group transformation risk and issue framework ensuring risks are identified quantified and actively managed.
- Drive a disciplined approach to issue escalation and resolution ensuring timely decision-making.
- Maintain and manage critical path and dependency maps across programmes.
- Benefits & outcomes tracking
- Establish and embed benefits realisation frameworks across transformation initiatives.
- Track delivery of financial operational and strategic benefits post-implementation.
- Work with Transformation Project and Finance leads to ensure benefits are clearly defined measurable and owned.
- Stakeholder management
- Act as a trusted partner and constructive challenger to programme sponsors and workstream leads.
- Influence senior stakeholders to maintain focus on outcomes pace and delivery discipline.
- Support programme leaders in resolving blockers without becoming delivery-accountable themselves.
- Tools data &PMOcapability
- Select implement and optimisePMOtools and dashboards ( Smartsheet Planview or equivalent).
- Ensure data quality consistency and integrity across all reporting.
- BuildPMOcapability across the organisation through guidance coaching and standards.
- Build team & capability
- Build and lead a small GroupPMOteam providing clear direction for new team members
- Set clear expectations standards and performance measures forPMOresources.
Skills Qualifications and Experience
- Proven experience setting up or leading a Group-levelPMOin a complex multi-stakeholder organisation.
- Strong understanding of portfolio programme and transformation governance.
- Experience supporting executive-level decision-making with clear credible reporting.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively.
- Strong analytical capability able to move from data to insight quickly.
- Pragmatic outcomes-focused approach - avoids bureaucracy for its own sake.
ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles
ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online due diligence search references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years employment history.
ISP Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging
ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying hiring developing and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender ethnicity sexual orientation and gender expression age disability status neurodivergence socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- PMBOK
- PPM Tools
- Waterfall
- Project Server
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- SDLC
About Company
We are here to help our schools. We want them to get better. The best people to run our schools are the people in our schools. We call our way of working the ISP Framework. Our main role is as a critical friend and advisor to our schools. ISP was founded by an experienced team of com ... View more
