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Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced PMO Governance Manager to lead the governance and performance management of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Change Portfolios. Reporting to the Head of Change and Delivery, you will play a key role in leading the Project Management Office, managing the Council’s approach, controls and processes for change, and supporting effective delivery across major programmes and projects.

This is an important leadership role at the centre of the Council’s change activity. You will oversee portfolio reporting, assurance, financial and benefits monitoring, future planning and continuous improvement of the Council’s project management framework. You will work closely with senior officers, programme and project teams, finance colleagues and other PMO leads to ensure that programmes and projects are well governed, consistently managed and set up to deliver their intended outcomes.

As PMO Governance Manager, you will lead the Council’s approach to portfolio governance, assurance and performance reporting. You will monitor progress against the annual portfolio plan, support future planning in line with business plan development, and provide senior leaders with clear information to support decision making.

You will own and continuously improve the Council’s Project Management Framework, ensuring clear accountabilities, gateway control points, required documentation, highlight reporting and benefits tracking. You will provide assurance across programmes and projects, identify risks and interdependencies, and act as a senior point of escalation where delivery challenges need to be addressed.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact pmo@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

• Lead governance and performance management across the Change Portfolio, working closely with the Head of Change and Delivery and senior leaders.
• Monitor adherence to the Council’s Project Management Framework, including gateway controls, documentation,reporting and benefits realisation.
• Track interdependencies, resourcing and constraints across programmes and projects, providing early warning of emerging risks.
• Develop and maintain cross-council portfolio reporting, dashboards and presentations for Change Board and committees.
• Lead assurance activity, including working with Audit and Risk colleagues to review programme and project governance and delivery.
• Provide clear financial and benefits reporting, working with finance colleagues to support informed decision making.
• Lead, manage and develop direct reports and contribute to the wider leadership of the Change Team.
• Act as a critical friend to programme and project teams, providing advice, challenge and guidance on governance,quality and delivery standards.
• Build strong relationships across the Council and with other PMO leads to align practice,standards and reporting.

About you

You will be an experienced PMO, programme or project governance professional with strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills. You will bring a detailed understanding of project management methodologies, tools and techniques, alongside experience of operating in a complex organisation where priorities, risks, resources and dependencies need to be managed carefully.

You will be confident working with senior stakeholders, able to explain complex information clearly, and comfortable constructively challenging colleagues to support consistent, high-quality delivery. You will be results-focused, professionally resilient and committed to continuous improvement.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers