Details
Reference number
426887
Salary
£60,300 - £70,730
National pay locations: Liverpool, Salford, Sheffield, £60,300 - £66,330
London pay locations: Croydon, £64,300 - £70,730
GBP
Job grade
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
HO - Digital Data and Technology
Type of role
Information Technology
Project Delivery
Working pattern
Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
* Location
* About the job
* Benefits
* Things you need to know
* Apply and further information
Location
Croydon, Liverpool, Salford, Sheffield
About the job
Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Law Enforcement Cloud Platform (LECP) Programme.
This role offers an opportunity to lead a high-performing team within a Home Office Critical programme in a challenging environment, overseeing end-to-end PMO functions. It's ideal for someone seeking strategic influence, leadership growth, and the chance to shape a major transformation with visibility across senior stakeholders.
The role demands a high level of expertise in PMO management. The team will rely on your leadership, guidance, and hands-on support.
Job description
As a G7 PMO Manager, you'll lead a team in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, overseeing core programme functions including planning, dependencies, RAID, governance, and reporting. You'll also manage business cases, assurance, finance, commercials, procurement, resourcing and workforce planning. This role requires strategic oversight to ensure effective delivery and compliance with governance standards, while supporting the programme's overall objectives.
You will lead a PMO team within LECP, a Home Office Critical cloud transformation programme. This senior management role encompasses a broad range of PMO responsibilities, as well as additional tasks that may fall outside traditional PMO scope. In 2026, as the programme transitions into Business as Usual (BAU), the scope of the PMO Manager role is expected to evolve.
You will have the opportunity to help shape the role and the team to support ongoing BAU Cloud Business Office.
You will play a pivotal role in driving programme success through robust planning, governance, financial management, and resource coordination across multiple workstreams. Strong interpersonal skills are vital, as too are diplomacy, relationship-building, and the ability to broker pragmatic, constructive solutions across diverse stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Leadership & Delivery: Lead the PMO team to ensure successful delivery of programme benefits and outcomes.
* Business Case & Finances: Manage business case development and governance; manage programme budgets; manage suppliers and oversee commercials.
* Governance & Assurance: Manage assurance reviews and ensure follow-up on recommendations.
* Risk & Issue Management: Establish and assure effective processes for identifying, managing, and mitigating risks and issues.
* Planning, Dependency and Change Management: Create and maintain a robust programme plan using MSPO and dependency register.
* Resource Management: Oversee recruitment and allocating of resources. Ownership of Joiners, Movers, and Leavers (JML) process, including security critical AWS Workspaces.
* Programme Board: Ownership of Programme Board, Strategic Board and Finance Board.
* Strategic Reporting: Concise and accurate multi-faceted reporting to a range of stakeholders.
* This role includes line management responsibilities.
The post holders may be required to undertake any of the above tasks or additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.
We offer the opportunity to support your continuous professional development through accreditation, relevant development opportunities as part of our thriving Project Delivery Community.
Please ensure you read the Project Delivery Capability Framework here and Project Delivery Accreditation details in full prior to applying.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
Travel
Regular face-to-face engagement with the leadership team is required, with travel to central London and Croydon.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
You will have the following skills or proven experience:
* Have experience of managing a PMO team or as a programme manager on a large programme.
* Have significant experience in supporting delivery of either complex or high-risk projects/programmes within agreed time, cost and quality constraints. You will have achieved this using your expert knowledge of project management tools and methodologies.
* Demonstrating expertise in core PMO functions including financial management, commercial and procurement, business case development, supplier oversight, milestone tracking, reporting and analytics, planning, dependency governance, RAID management, and change control.
* Have strong experience with working with a broad and complex range of stakeholders, with the confidence to engage with senior officials. Demonstrating excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being able to tailor your approach to suit the audience and situation.
* Produced timely and accurate governance reports, stakeholder presentations, and ministerial commissions, vetted by programme leadership and senior Home Office and policing stakeholders.
Qualifications
You will have a recognised accreditation in (or be willing to attain) a professional project management qualification such as:
* PRINCE2 Practitioner
* Agile Project Management Practitioner
* APM Practitioner Qualification
* APM Registered Project Professional
* Project Leadership Programme or other related qualification
Desirable Criteria
Ideally you will also have the following skills or some experience in:
* Understanding different methodologies used in programme delivery environments, such as Waterfall, Agile and Product Centric Management.
* Understanding of AWS cloud environment and related technologies.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Managing a Quality Service
* Changing and Improving
* Communicating and Influencing
* Working Together
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
* Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:
* A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
* In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
* 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
* Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
* Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
See more of our benefits on our careers website.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
1. Application – by Friday 17th October 2025
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
* CV.
* Personal Statement (maximum 1,000 words).
* Evidence of the Lead Behaviour 'Managing a Quality Service' (maximum of 250 words).
Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
1. Sift – week commencing Monday 20th October 2025
The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and lead behaviour Managing a Quality Service.
Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the CV. Candidates who pass at this stage will then be assessed on their Personal Statement. Candidates who pass both the CV and Personal Statement will be progressed to a full sift where their lead behaviour will be considered. Candidates will only receive a score for what is assessed.
1. Interview – taking place from Thursday 13th November 2025
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviour (as listed in the job advert) and Experience based questions.
Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:
* A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
* Good internet connection
* Microsoft Teams
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Problems during the application process
If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you've made a mistake on an initial application, please contact, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.
Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.
Location Preferences
You can select up to threelocations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred location(s) and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Reserve lists will be held for each location. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location.
Candidates judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised without the need to go through a further selection process, providing the role has the same Success Profiles elements and essential skills. There is no guarantee that further such vacancies will arise.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. The level of Criminal Record Check required for this role is Basic Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.
Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV)
You should currently hold, or be willing to obtain, Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level-3 vetting (including financial checks). This is essential for the role. For further information visit About the Police National Vetting Service, Warwickshire Police.
Formal offers of employment will not be made until successful candidates have obtained both NSV clearance and NPPV3 clearance.
For existing Civil Servants: Please note that failure to obtain NPPV3 Clearance may trigger a formal review of your National Security Vetting Clearance (NSV). Depending on the nature of the information identified, this could result in your NSV being revoked.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.
If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre- stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .
See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
* Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
* Email :
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Further information
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