How You Will Make a Difference
The Portfolio Management Office plays a critical role in ensuring that effective and consistent programme and project management arrangements are embedded through expert training, guidance and tools. Working at the heart of programme and project activity, you will provide high‑quality analytical support that ensures effective reporting, governance, assurance and delivery across a diverse and ambitious portfolio of work. You will also support project managers who manage and deliver corporate and departmental projects that form part of the council’s wider transformation programme, as well as leading small to medium sized projects that deliver service improvement and value for money.
What You Will Be Doing
* Act as a trusted lead on specialist advice, providing guidance on portfolio, programme and project management standards, tools and best practice; engaging with officers at all levels, constructively challenging information and supporting teams to improve the quality of their programme delivery.
* Support robust programme governance by coordinating reporting cycles, meetings and assurance activities; apply strong quality‑assurance to check submissions for accuracy and completeness, proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting and overall effectiveness of the PMO function.
* Be responsible for the reporting and overall effectiveness of the PMO function, with regular liaison with finance colleagues to track financials and reconciliations.
* Support the delivery of a large‑scale transformation programme, producing high‑quality, accurate and timely reports for senior officers, boards and stakeholders; create programme dashboards, track milestones, risks, issues and benefits, liaise with finance colleagues to track financials and reconciliations and ensure information is presented clearly to support decision‑making.
* Collect, validate and maintain programme and project information from multiple workstreams, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the portfolio; manage logs, plans and documentation with a high level of attention to detail to keep records complete, up to date and compliant with governance requirements.
* Undertake research and analysis of data to support the development, monitoring and evaluation of transformation initiatives; identify trends, dependencies and variances and translate complex information into clear insights that inform programme planning and continuous improvement.
What We Need From You
* Hold a relevant professional, equivalent degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
* Have Portfolio or Programme Management Office experience and be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of developing processes and procedures that support programme and project delivery.
* Possess excellent communication and influencing skills, alongside well‑developed interpersonal skills for persuading, building relationships and communicating effectively with customers.
* Have strong analytical skills to understand, analyse information and data, provide solutions and recommendations to achieve appropriate outcomes and present these in a user‑friendly manner.
* Be able to monitor and/or report on budgets, financial information and resources; have a good level of IT and digital skills, with experience of specialist in‑house software packages.
* Have specific experience in supporting project work in areas such as organisational improvement, value for money, performance management, project and programme management and other similar initiatives.
What You Need To Know
Interviews to be held on the 23rd April 2026.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
* Our teams work best when they have balance in their lives; we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
* We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long‑term difference in work.
* As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
* We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work; we welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
* We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
* We’re positive and forward‑thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working and we’re ambitious about the future.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Project Officer Programme Office job description
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