Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations – Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow
Job Summary
Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. Our purpose is to protect energy consumers, especially vulnerable people, by ensuring they are treated fairly and benefit from a cleaner, greener environment.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Ofgem as a Senior PMO Manager within our Infrastructure Coordination and Prioritisation (ICP) team. You’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of a greener, fairer energy system at a time of significant transformation in the UK energy market.
You’ll lead the management of a large programme of work or multiple projects, ensuring robust planning, delivery, and reporting across the Infrastructure group. This includes maintaining central planning and resourcing tools, overseeing budget tracking, and ensuring effective risk and assurance processes are in place. You’ll also be responsible for engaging with the central PMO team and championing best practice across the wider project management community.
This role offers variety, challenge, and the chance to influence how we deliver critical infrastructure programmes. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, policy teams, and corporate services, helping to align priorities and drive performance across six directorates including Cyber Regulation, Engineering, Energy Systems, Major Projects, and Price Controls.
We’re looking for someone with experience leading complex programmes or portfolios, with strong planning, reporting, and stakeholder engagement skills. You’ll be confident managing risks and issues, communicating clearly with diverse audiences, and adapting to a fast-paced environment. Experience with project management methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall is desirable, as is certification in Agile, Prince2, MSP or P3M.
This is a chance to make a real impact bringing clarity, structure and momentum to some of the most important infrastructure programmes in the UK energy sector. You’ll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, where your expertise will help shape how we deliver change at scale.
Join us and help shape the future of energy in the UK.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Project manage a large programme of work or a number of projects within a PMO function, portfolio or team setting.
- Establish and maintain up-to-date delivery plans, identifying and managing milestones, creating visibility of key decision points and dependencies within the central planning tool.
- Responsible for ensuring the organisations project management processes are followed and all required project documentation is maintained including having appropriate business cases and project initiation documents in place for the work being delivered.
- Ensure there is a clear up to date picture of resources across the portfolio by maintaining the central Resourcing Tool.
- Ensuring timely recruitment to align with group growth plans.
- Lead budget tracking and reporting across the portfolio.
- Deliver accurate and timely reporting for senior colleagues, programme SROs and decision makers as required.
- Ensure effective risk management and assurance processes are in place, and a drumbeat for the regular review of risk across the Portfolio feeding into and adhering to the central risk processes.
- Overall responsibility for engaging with and providing information, as required, to the central PMO team.
- Champion & validate use of PMO tools across the Portfolio including the Decisions Log & Action Tracker
- Actively engage with the wider Project Management and Delivery professional network to ensure sharing of best practice, building of capability, and promote continuous improvement
Key Outputs and Deliverables
Review And Maintain The Central Group:
- Planner
- Resource tool
- MI Report
- Highlight Reports (for projects)
- Risk Register (Portfolio level)
- Assurance process and outputs
- ePMO Portfolio Management Framework documentation
- Action Tracker
- Decisions Log
- Central Ofgem Decisions Recording System (DRS)
- Attend weekly and ad-hoc PMO team meetings
Review And Maintain The Central Group:
- Planner
- Resource tool
- MI Report
- Highlight Reports (for projects)
- Risk Register (Portfolio level)
- Assurance process and outputs
- ePMO Portfolio Management Framework documentation
- Action Tracker
- Decisions Log
- Central Ofgem Decisions Recording System (DRS)
- Attend weekly and ad-hoc PMO team meetings
Person specification
Please ensure you demonstrate clearly within your personal statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria below (not more than 1250 words).
Essential Criteria
In the event of receiving a large number of applications an initial sift may take place on just the identified lead criteria indicated below:
- Experience of leading or managing a large project or programme or multiple projects, including planning and producing detailed delivery plans (Lead)
- Experience of performance reporting within a portfolio/PMO (Lead)
- Have experience of managing and reporting on risks and issues within a project environment
- Ability to deliver and change direction in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to build effective relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, building capability and confidence with the programme and projects
- Excellent organisational, written and verbal communication skills that effectively communicate complex issues to non-expert audiences with attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience of a range of project management techniques, including agile and waterfall
- Agile, Prince2, MSP or P3M certification
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Alongside your salary of £47,895, OFGEM contributes £13,875 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.
You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
- Name : Lisa Buchanan
- Email : Recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website
