PMO Lead
Department
Transformation
Employment Type
Permanent
Minimum Experience
Manager/Supervisor
Compensation
£85,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 15 May 2026
About the role
Trinity College London is looking for a PMO lead to provide hands-on governance, coordination, and control across the organisation’s portfolio of business and technology change initiatives.
The PMO Lead will manage the front-door governance process, overseeing the assessment, approval, and initiation process of all change activity. You will be responsible for ensuring that costs, capacity, risk, and business value are understood from the outset. In this role you will work closely with project managers, sponsors and business leads. As PMO Lead, you will continue the implementation and maturity development of Trinity's PMO processes within an active transformation environment.
Key accountabilities include but are not limited to:
- Governance
- Project intake and assessment
- Financial management and Benefits realisation
- Portfolio Management
- Demand and capacity management
- Outcomes and Success Measures
About you
We are looking for someone with excellent stakeholder management experience, as well as adaptability while working in dynamic and ambiguous situations. Strong analytical and problem solving skills are also a must
Skills and experience:
- Demonstrable experience in a PMO Lead, portfolio management, or delivery governance role
- Proven ability to implement and manage governance, portfolio management, and benefits realisation frameworks
- Strong financial management and forecasting capability
- Hands-on experience managing project intake, prioritisation, and portfolio reporting
- Familiarity with enterprise risk and assurance frameworks
- Professional qualifications such as APM PMQ / PPQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP Practitioner, or P3O Practitioner are highly desirable
Our benefits
Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.
Our commitment
Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse.
Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.
To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.
How to Apply
To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.
Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.
All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.
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Location
London, Greater London (Hybrid)
Department
Transformation
Employment Type
Permanent
Minimum Experience
Manager/Supervisor
Compensation
£85,000 per annum