Programme Governance Lead

Assystem; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Assystem is seeking a Capability Integration Governance professional to join the Client's Capability Integration team in the UK. You will lead governance, reporting, and stakeholder coordination to support effective decision‑making, programme control, and delivery readiness.

As part of a major infrastructure programme, you will oversee RAIDO, maintain key docs, and present governance data through dashboards and board packs, while collaborating with planning, risk, and project control leads on

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a governance role.
• Working knowledge of governance, risk, scheduling and process.
• Sound knowledge of project governance activities.
• Ability to objectively analyse data and information to form a big-picture view.
• Process detailed information to identify relevant key points to brief seniors.
• Organisational and leadership skills.
• Working experience of project control activities for infrastructure works.
• Hands on experience of ensuring stakeholder engagement in project management.
• Good IT skills including competent user of MS 365 appliances, Power BI and JIRA.
• Experience of working as part of a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage programme governance, reporting, and performance tracking
• Lead stakeholder engagement and coordinate communication across programme teams
• Oversee change control, decision logs, and governance processes
• Maintain key programme documentation, including RACI matrices, process maps, lessons learned, and SOPs
• Ensure effective oversight of Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Opportunities (RAIDO)
• Work with Planning and Risk Leads to ensure schedules, reporting, and programme data remain accurate and up to date
• Analyse and present governance data, producing high-quality reports, dashboards, and board packs
• Support project controls, document management, and secretariat activities, ensuring compliance with programme processes

Skills

Governance

Risk management

Scheduling

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Project controls

Documentation

Team collaboration

Tools

MS 365

Power BI

JIRA

Job description

Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.

Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.

Job Description

Summary of the Role

The Capability Integration Governance role is based within the Client's Capability Integration team.

Join a major infrastructure programme where you'll lead governance, reporting, and stakeholder coordination to support effective decision‑making, programme control, and delivery readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage programme governance, reporting, and performance tracking
• Lead stakeholder engagement and coordinate communication across programme teams
• Oversee change control, decision logs, and governance processes
• Maintain key programme documentation, including RACI matrices, process maps, lessons learned, and SOPs
• Ensure effective oversight of Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Opportunities (RAIDO)
• Work with Planning and Risk Leads to ensure schedules, reporting, and programme data remain accurate and up to date
• Analyse and present governance data, producing high-quality reports, dashboards, and board packs
• Support project controls, document management, and secretariat activities, ensuring compliance with programme processes

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a governance role
• Working knowledge of governance, risk, scheduling and process.
• Have a sound knowledge of project governance activities
• Able to objectively analyse data and information to form a big-picture view
• Process detailed information to identify relevant key points to brief seniors
• Organisational and leadership skills
• Working experience of project control activities for infrastructure works
• Hands on experience of ensuring stakeholder engagement in project management
• Good IT skills including competent user of MS 365 appliances, Power BI and JIRA
• Experience of working as part of a collaborative environment

Desirable:

• In-depth knowledge of the Government project delivery framework
• Ability to communicate effectively at executive level
• Ability to be agile to react and reprioritise to changes in the Defence environment
• Experience of managing stakeholders and delivery in complex live operational environment

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Suitability

• Suitable for an individual with working experience in a programme governance role,
• Ideally have experience in a government project delivery environment, though this is not essential.

Qualifications and professional memberships that will be considered.

• APM Chartered Project Professional
• APMG International Project Planning and Control Practitioner
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
• PMI Project Management Professional

Membership of Relevant professional body

Additional Information

• Staff or Umbrella contractor role
• SC Clearance required to start
• This role is primarily based at the Client Site
• There is a requirement to be onsite to facilitate workshops, routine meetings and site visits and to engage with the wider Client team, this currently is a minimum of 2 days per week and maximum 4 days per week but could require more or less at specific times of the programme and should be flexible to facilitate this business need in agreement with customer Line Manager.
• There is likely to be occasional travel to Glasgow.

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