PMO Manager

What you'll be doing

As the PMO Manager, you’ll play a central role in shaping how the IET delivers projects and programmes that drive our strategic ambitions. Reporting to the Transformation Manager, you’ll lead our Project Management Office, championing consistent standards, strong governance, and high-quality delivery across our full project portfolio.

This is a role where strategy meets hands-on impact. You’ll set the frameworks, methodologies, and tools that underpin effective delivery, while also overseeing, and at times directly managing, key projects yourself. You’ll be the source of clarity and assurance across the IET, ensuring projects are well-resourced, risks are understood, performance is transparent, and teams are fully supported to succeed.

You’ll manage a team of Project Managers, guiding, coaching, and empowering them to deliver their best work whist fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Working closely with colleagues across the IET, you’ll also strengthen governance, optimise resources, and help ensure our transformation and change work drives meaningful, measurable outcomes.

What we hope you can bring to the role

We’re looking for an experienced PMO or senior project professional with a strong track record of leading complex portfolios and embedding project delivery excellence across an organisation. You’ll bring proven expertise in project and programme methodologies with Agile experience, a deep understanding of best practice governance, and the confidence to drive consistency where it’s needed.

You’ll be an influential and supportive leader; someone who can bring out the best in project managers, build strong relationships across departments, and engage senior stakeholders with credible insight and clear reporting. You’ll be comfortable overseeing multiple priorities, making informed decisions, and stepping in to personally lead key projects when required.

If you’re someone who thrives on improving processes, strengthening delivery capability, championing high standards, and supporting teams to achieve successful outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

A little more about the role

• Lead, maintain and continually improve the IET’s project management standards, methodologies and best practices, ensuring all projects and programmes align with strategic goals.
• Oversee project portfolio governance, providing assurance that projects are delivered effectively, within agreed scope, time and budget.
• Manage the allocation and optimisation of resources, including people, tools and budgets.
• Line manage the PMO team, providing coaching, support, and oversight to ensure consistently high-quality delivery.
• Personally manage and deliver a defined portfolio of projects, demonstrating best practice in action.
• Track and report on project performance, budgets, risks, and KPIs, providing clear insight and assurance to senior leadership.
• Identify and manage risks and issues, enabling timely resolution and supporting project teams to stay on track.
• Provide expert guidance to project managers and teams, offering practical solutions and ensuring they have the resources needed for success.
• Advise on stakeholder engagement approaches and encourage strong, collaborative relationships across project teams.
• Facilitate communication across teams and leadership, ensuring alignment, transparency and shared understanding throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review and refine processes, implementing improvements that enhance efficiency, strengthen governance and increase delivery success.

A little more about what we’re looking for

• Significant experience in a senior project or programme leadership role, ideally as a PMO Manager or equivalent.
• Demonstrable ability to shape and embed project management standards, tools, and governance frameworks across an organisation.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing and developing high-performing project teams.
• Excellent knowledge of project methodologies and tools, with strong experience working in Agile environments.
• Experience with resource planning, budgeting, and portfolio-level oversight.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate risks, identify opportunities and make informed decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence working with senior leaders.
• Experience establishing and managing reporting structures that provide clarity, insight, and actionable intelligence.
• A proactive, continuous-improvement mindset, always seeking ways to strengthen processes and support better outcomes.
• Project management certification such as PRINCE2, MSP or PMP (beneficial but not essential).

We’d love to get to know you

Is Imposter syndrome creeping in? Don’t worry – we’d rather hear from you this time than not hear from you at all!

Download the full job description for a little more information about the role; but also, keep in mind that we’re open to discussing flexible ways of working, including reduced hours and working in an agile way, supported by a hybrid working framework that allows you to find the best place to do your best work.

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