Portfolio Resourcing and Pipeline Coordinator (Corporate PMO)

West of England Mayoral Combined Authority; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

West of England Mayoral Combined Authority is seeking a proactive PMO resource planner to help shape how projects and programmes are resourced. You will coordinate deployment across the WECA portfolio, ensuring plans and resource requirements are clear and aligned, while maintaining a portfolio-level schedule and governance posture.

You will work in a hybrid setup with regular Bristol office attendance to enable collaboration with teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a PMO, project management or similar coordination environment.
• Ability to manage information from multiple sources with high accuracy.
• Strong relationship-building and cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to balance competing priorities and maintain delivery focus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating and managing the deployment of project management resources across the WECA portfolio.
• Coordinating project mobilisation activities, ensuring plans, schedules and resource requirements are clear and aligned.
• Maintain and update a portfolio level project schedule, keeping oversight over plans and resourcing commitments across the organisation.
• Supporting effective deployment of PMO resources across our portfolio, ensuring capacity is aligned to organisational priorities and delivery needs.
• Developing and maintaining a clear view of current and future project demand, providing insight that supports informed resource planning and decision-making.
• Ensuring portfolio information is accurate, complete and up to date, enabling effective reporting, assurance and governance.
• Coordinating project mobilisation activities, helping projects establish robust plans, controls and resource requirements from the outset.
• Providing proactive coordination between the Corporate PMO, Strategy Team and delivery teams to identify dependencies, manage competing priorities and support successful project delivery.

Skills

PMO experience

information management

stakeholder collaboration

delivery focus

Job description

Job Overview

We're looking for a proactive and organised professional who is passionate about helping organisations deliver meaningful change. This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in shaping how projects and programmes are resourced across the organisation, ensuring the right people are deployed to the right priorities at the right time. Working at the heart of our Corporate PMO, you'll help provide the insight, coordination and forward planning needed to support successful project delivery and informed decision-making. This is a critical time in our transformation and growth journey, and you'll be pivotal in helping us achieve our ambitions by:

Responsibilities

• Coordinating and managing the deployment of project management resources across the WECA portfolio.
• Coordinating project mobilisation activities, ensuring plans, schedules and resource requirements are clear and aligned.
• Maintain and update a portfolio level project schedule, keeping oversight over plans and resourcing commitments across the organisation.
• Supporting effective deployment of PMO resources across our portfolio, ensuring capacity is aligned to organisational priorities and delivery needs.
• Developing and maintaining a clear view of current and future project demand, providing insight that supports informed resource planning and decision-making.
• Ensuring portfolio information is accurate, complete and up to date, enabling effective reporting, assurance and governance.
• Coordinating project mobilisation activities, helping projects establish robust plans, controls and resource requirements from the outset.
• Providing proactive coordination between the Corporate PMO, Strategy Team and delivery teams to identify dependencies, manage competing priorities and support successful project delivery.

What you’ll be doing

Are you someone who thrives on organisation, enjoys coordinating multiple priorities, and is passionate about ensuring projects have the right people and information in place to succeed? You’ll help shape resource planning, oversee portfolio information, and support successful project delivery across our organisation.

What you’ll bring

• Have experience working in a PMO, project management or similar coordination environment.
• Can manage information from multiple sources with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively across teams.
• Can balance competing priorities and maintain a clear focus on delivery.

Why choose us?

You’ll be joining a supportive and ambitious Corporate PMO at the centre of a growing portfolio of projects and programmes that make a real difference across the West of England. This is an opportunity to influence how we plan and deploy resources, improve how we manage our portfolio, and help ensure our projects are set up for success from day one.

We believe in fostering a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering you to thrive in your career. We prioritise your growth and success by providing a diverse range of learning and development opportunities. Our goal is to keep you motivated, equipped with essential skills, and confident in delivering excellent services.

Alongside the opportunity to make a real difference to the people who visit, live and work in the West of England, this role operates on a hybrid basis, with regular attendance required at our Bristol office to support collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, condition or need any additional support that means you might require changes to the application or recruitment process (for example, you might need to submit your application in a different format), please get in touch with our team at [e-mail].

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Benefits

• 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years continuous service. There is also the option to increase your annual leave with our annual leave purchase scheme.
• 2 days of paid leave each year to volunteer
• Local Government Pension Scheme (one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK).
• Flexible, family friendly and hybrid working options to ensure you achieve the best work/life balance and career goals. We follow a hybrid working model with typically 2 or 3 days in the office each week
• Reduced bus fare travel across the West of England, The salary for this role is £38,220 - £41,771. This is the full-time equivalent salary, and will be pro-rated for part-time. We advertise salary ranges for job roles, with new appointments for external candidates typically starting at the lowest salary point. In exceptional cases, where higher skill levels or experience are applicable, the salary point may be adjusted to secure the best candidate. This approach allows for potential year-on-year salary increases, offering progression and appropriate rewards to employees.