What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Help turn strategy into meaningful change
We’re looking for an experienced and values‑driven PMO Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our strategic change portfolio. This is a high‑impact, national role where you’ll translate strategic ambition into thoughtful, well‑governed delivery – ensuring our programmes and projects deliver real, sustainable outcomes for people and communities.
This is a full time permanent role with travel to our head office in Widnes once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of Widnes. What is "The Deal" for you?
1. Flexibility: You can work your 37.5 hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or split the hours over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
2. Pension: contributory pension scheme
3. Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
4. Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives bolder
5. Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
6. Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life
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Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
As our PMO Manager, you’ll act as a centre of excellence for portfolio, programme and project management. You’ll provide clarity, assurance and insight to Executive and Trustee level stakeholders, while building delivery maturity and capability across the organisation. Reporting into the Director of Strategy and Change, the PMO Manager will:
10. Lead the strategic portfolio planning and reporting cycle, providing clear visibility of priorities, progress, risks and benefits
11. Design and embed pragmatic PMO frameworks, governance and assurance that enable informed decision‑making without slowing delivery
12. Act as a trusted internal consultant and subject matter expert, supporting teams to deliver change confidently and consistently
13. Drive continuous improvement in delivery maturity, tools and ways of working
14. Build strong, collaborative relationships across operational, functional and support service teams across England and Scotland
In this varied and high-profile role, you will be responsible for: Strategy & Portfolio Leadership
15. Leading the annual strategic planning process and coordinating functional plans and budgets
16. Developing and maintaining a clear, prioritised portfolio roadmap aligned to organisational goals and delivery capacity
Governance, Assurance & Reporting
17. Owning monthly and quarterly portfolio reporting for Executives, Committees and the Board
18. Defining and managing governance forums, stage gates, assurance processes and decision logs
19. Providing confidence on delivery health, risks, dependencies and benefits realisation
Transformation & Delivery Excellence
20. Leading the development and evolution of PMO frameworks, standards, methodologies and tools
21. Supporting resource planning and capacity management to inform prioritisation decisions
22. Providing hands‑on project management support and, where required, leading key projects
23. Owning lessons learned and driving continuous improvement across change delivery
Systems, Finance & Risk
24. Leading the use and development of project management systems and templates (e.g. Smartsheet)
25. Managing supplier relationships for PMO tools and systems
26. Tracking portfolio‑level costs and working closely with Finance to ensure accurate reporting
27. Collaborating with teams to manage risks, issues and dependencies proactively
People & Capability
28. Setting clear expectations and coaching team members and colleagues to maximise PMO effectiveness
29. Building organisational capability through guidance, training and knowledge sharing
30. Fostering a positive, inclusive and high‑performance culture
What success looks like
31. Clear, trusted portfolio insight that supports confident Executive and Trustee decision‑making
32. Improved consistency, quality and predictability of project delivery
33. Reduced delivery risk through proactive governance and early intervention
34. Strong stakeholder feedback on PMO support, tools and ways of working
35. A more mature, capable PMO function that continuously evolves and improves
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Your values:
Our ideal candidate: Essential
39. Degree‑level education or equivalent professional experience in project, programme or portfolio management
40. Practitioner‑level certification (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, AgilePM) or equivalent experience
41. Proven experience leading PMO functions in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments
42. Strong portfolio, programme and project management expertise, including benefits realisation
43. Experience of resource planning, capacity tracking and portfolio‑level reporting
44. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
Desirable
45. Experience in agile or adaptive portfolio governance
46. Use of digital PMO tooling and data visualisation (e.g. Power BI)
47. Engagement with external networks or benchmarking groups
Who you are You’re a collaborative and resilient leader with a can‑do mindset and a passion for delivering meaningful change. You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity, able to challenge constructively, and motivated by values‑driven work that makes a genuine difference. You bring empathy, clarity and pragmatism to everything you do – and you’re excited by the opportunity to shape how change is delivered across a national charity. Why join us?
48. A senior, influential role with real strategic impact
49. The opportunity to shape and mature a PMO function at organisational scale
50. A values‑led environment focused on improving lives and communities
51. Supportive, collaborative culture with scope to innovate and lead
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.