Head of Programme Management Office

About the Role
The Head of PMO will report to the Director of Estates Development and play a critical role in ensuring robust governance, reporting, assurance, and risk management across the estate development portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a transformative capital programme.

The Head of PMO will lead the unit within the Directorate and will be accountable to the Director of Estates Development. At present, three staff members within the Capital Development team, to provide ‘quasi-PMO’ services, including Secretariat support to align with the University’s governance requirements. Initially, the Head of PMO will assume line management responsibility for these staff members and will assess the team’s current capability, processes, practices and resource provision against accepted PMO maturity benchmarks (e.g. ‘P3M3’ gap analysis with respect to key perspectives, including: management control, benefits management, financial management, risk management, stakeholder management, organisational governance, resource management).

A temporary market supplement is attached to this post, which is a separate payment in addition to the normal salary. A review of market conditions will be carried out periodically to establish if the market supplement should continue.

About You
Do you have a strong background in programme management within complex capital projects and are excited by the prospect of enabling large-scale change in a dynamic academic environment.

About the Department
QMUL is enhancing its Estates Development team with the appointment of a Head of Programme Management Office a pivotal role in one of the UK’s largest higher education capital programmes.

QMUL is a leading research-intensive university, it is the only London university offering a fully integrated residential campus. The university spans a wide academic spectrum, including humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, dentistry, and science and engineering.

The Estates and Facilities Directorate oversees the planning and delivery of a world-class estate across all campuses.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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