PMO Officer - Securing the Future programme

Job overview

Helping to shape the future of modern healthcare. This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to play a key role in delivering one of the NHS’s most significant transformation programmes.

Following the Government’s 2025 ministerial announcement, Airedale General Hospital has been confirmed as a Wave 1 scheme within the New Hospital Programme (NHP). As part of this high-profile portfolio, the Securing the Future Programme is driving forward a complex, multi-million-pound programme of work—bringing together multiple projects, stakeholders, and delivery partners under a single, coordinated programme structure.

We are seeking a highly organised and proactive PMO Officer to help strengthen programme controls, governance, and reporting across this ambitious programme. You will be instrumental in ensuring that projects are well-managed, performance is clearly understood, and leadership teams have the insight they need to make informed decisions.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a structured programme environment and wants to contribute to best-in-class project and programme management practice at scale.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will support the PMO Manager in delivering effective programme and project management controls to ensure successful delivery of the Programme. This includes maintaining the Programme Execution Plan and supporting Project Managers and Workstream Leads with key project documentation.

They will support resource planning across all Programme stages, ensuring clear accountability and coordination of internal and external capacity. The role includes managing risks, issues, dependencies and changes, ensuring these are identified, analysed, mitigated and reported through appropriate governance processes.

The post holder will support effective reporting, including defining KPIs, analysing management information and enabling informed decision-making. They will also promote the sharing of lessons learned and support assurance activities through the review of Programme controls.

In addition, the role will support the use and standardisation of collaboration tools, attend governance meetings, contribute to organisational projects and lead or support workshops as required. Other duties will be undertaken in line with the grade of the post as directed by the Head of PMO and Programme Director.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

The post holder shall be responsible for the following duties: 1.    To support the PMO Manager in the implementation of a range of programme and project management capabilities and controls supporting the successful delivery of the programme, including contributing to updates to the Programme Execution Plan (PEP), supporting Project Managers/Workstream Leads with the development of and updates to Project Initiation Documents, Project Delivery Plans and similar core project documentation for approved projects. 2.    To support the development of robust resource planning with the PMO Manager to ensure the timely planning of internal resource and external capacity to deliver each stage of the Programme, including clear documentation of accountability and responsibility (i.e. RACI matrices and Workstream Delivery Plans) 3.    To coordinate risks, assumptions, issues and dependency management activities providing proactive support to Project Managers and Workstream Leads in identifying and analysing risks, developing mitigations, and ensuring these are appropriately captured, updated and reported to the appropriate governance and assurance bodies. 4.    To coordinate and facilitate the change process through effective communication methods with Project Managers and Workstream Leads in identifying and analysing changes, assessing the impact on the wider Programme, ensuring these are appropriately captured and reported to the appropriate governance and assurance bodies. 5.    To coordinate the identification of lessons learned and best practice ensuring they are captured and are disseminated across the StF Programme as may be appropriate. 6.    To support the PMO Manager in the audit and review of Programme controls on a periodic basis to provide assurance within the StF Programme governance on the efficacy of controls.  7.    To support an effective reporting process, including the use of appropriate reporting tools and associated training, working with external providers as necessary. 8.    To liaise with Project Managers and Workstream Leads to identify KPIs/reporting metrics that can be used to monitor the programme and project delivery. 9.    To support Project Managers in collating and analysing complex management information for reporting to specific meetings which enables them to fulfil their decision-making and assurance roles. 10.    To support the implementation of collaboration tools (e.g. Teams, SharePoint, Trello etc), developing consistent standards for their use and associated training. 11.    To attend appropriate Programme governance meetings as required. 12.    To contribute to other organisation-wide projects as required from time-to-time. 13.    To support and lead workshops with Programme teams and other stakeholders as may be required from time-to-time. 14.    To perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post under the direction of the Head of PMO and Programme Director.