PMO Lead

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent housing organization in the UK is seeking a seasoned PMO Lead to strengthen planning and governance across their change portfolio. You will manage the PMO function, establish a new portfolio management framework, and ensure project oversight. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership experience and a background in portfolio management. The role offers competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

Up to 8% contributory pension

Flexible working

Investment in learning and development

Health and lifestyle benefits allowance

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing and operating a PMO function.
• Experience in the social housing or local authority sector.
• Deep understanding of portfolio, programme, and project management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the PMO function and embed a new portfolio management framework.
• Oversee portfolio governance and compliance with standards.
• Maintain integrated portfolio plan and accurate reporting products.
• Manage portfolio resource planning and allocation.
• Provide coaching and assurance to Project Managers.

Skills

Leadership

Governance expertise

Influencing

Performance management

Project management practices

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Prince2 Practitioner qualification

Tools

Contract management systems

Job description

PMO Lead

Location: Ealing (Hybrid working - limited office attendance required)

Salary: £67,232-£71,000

Contract type: 6-month Fixed Term, Full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

DBS: Basic

Lead the portfolio that shapes our organisation’s future

Are you an experienced PMO leader who can bring structure, insight, and consistency to a large and diverse change portfolio? Do you excel at building governance frameworks, driving performance, and enabling successful delivery across complex programmes? If so, this could be the role for you.

As our PMO Lead, you’ll play a central role in strengthening how we plan, govern, and deliver change across A2 Dominion. You’ll lead our PMO function, embed a new portfolio management framework, and ensure robust, transparent oversight of all projects. Your work will be critical in ensuring we deliver the right initiatives, at the right time, in the right way – supporting better outcomes for our residents, colleagues, and communities.

About us

At A2 Dominion, we’re more than a housing provider. We’re a not-for-profit organisation with a clear social purpose: to create homes and communities people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes across London and the SouthEast, we reinvest our profits into building more affordable homes and delivering services that make a real difference. We’re also a proud member of the G15, helping lead the sector and tackle the housing crisis.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the PMO function, embedding a new portfolio management framework and establishing consistent ways of working across the organisation’s entire change portfolio.
• Oversee portfolio governance, ensuring compliance with standards, robust controls, and high-quality reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain the integrated portfolio plan, consolidating data from subsidiary project plans and producing accurate reporting products.
• Oversee portfolio prioritisation, tracking progress, escalating risks and issues, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Manage portfolio resource planning and allocation, working closely with business teams and development teams to optimise the operating model.
• Maintain PMO tools, templates, documentation, and guidance, ensuring project teams meet PMO standards and use required processes.
• Provide advice, coaching, and assurance to Project Managers, sponsors and project teams, supporting consistent delivery.
• Manage the full change control process, progressing change requests through governance and maintaining the change register.
• Ensure high-quality data across the PMO by maintaining data lineage, glossaries and dictionaries; enforcing data entry standards; monitoring quality metrics; and resolving data issues.
• Work with the Data Governance Team to implement validation rules and meet governance expectations.

More About You

You’ll bring strong leadership, governance expertise and proven PMO experience, along with the ability to influence, engage and drive performance across a complex organisation.

• Proven experience managing and operating a PMO function.
• Experience in the social housing or local authority sector in a similar role (desirable but not essential).
• Deep understanding of portfolio, programme and project management practices.
• Experience implementing and managing governance frameworks.
• Leadership and coaching experience within PMO or project environments.
• Experience in people, process and technology change projects.
• Knowledge of industry-standard project methodologies.
• Degree in a relevant subject (desirable, not essential).
• Prince2 Practitioner qualification (desirable).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and contract management systems.
• Hands‑on leadership style with ability to motivate and develop teams.

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2 Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service.
• Up to 8% contributory pension.
• Flexible working.
• Investment in your learning and development.
• In addition, all permanent and fixed‑term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

Inclusion at A2 Dominion

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process – just contact our Resourcing Team at [e-mail]

We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If that’s you, we’d still encourage you to apply – or get in touch with us to talk it through.

At A2 Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family‑friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

This vacancy is being managed by Danny Banks – [e-mail]

The role closes on 2nd January 2026; we reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of the right candidate.