Programme Manager – PMO Governance and Controls Lead

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: The Program Manager – PMO & Program Controls Lead reports to the Engagement Manager and is responsible for establishing and leading the program management, governance framework, reporting structure, and program controls environment. The role provides strategic oversight across the program portfolio, ensuring that scope, schedule, cost, risks, resources, dependencies, benefits, and outcomes are effectively managed. This role owns the integrated program baseline and consolidated reporting framework. The position works closely with program sponsors, senior stakeholders, project managers, finance, procurement, business leads, and delivery partners to provide transparency, control, and assurance throughout the program lifecycle. What You'll Be Doing: Program Leadership and PMO Management - Establish and lead the Program Management Office across a complex program or portfolio. - Define PMO operating models, governance structures, processes, standards, templates, and ways of working. - Provide leadership, direction, and support to project managers, PMO analysts, planners, and project controls professionals. - Ensure consistent application of program and project management methodologies. - Coordinate program mobilisation, planning, delivery, transition, and closure activities. - Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence. Governance and Assurance - Establish program governance forums, decision-making structures, and escalation routes. - Prepare and present materials for program boards, steering committees, executive reviews, and investment committees. - Maintain governance calendars, decision logs, action trackers, and approval records. - Monitor compliance with program controls, stage gates, assurance requirements, and organizational policies. - Lead program health checks, assurance reviews, audits, and delivery assessments. - Ensure that decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes are actively managed and escalated appropriately. Program Controls - Establish and maintain integrated controls for scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, changes, benefits, and quality. - Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule and program baseline. - Monitor program progress against approved scope, milestones, budget, and benefits. - Lead the development of program forecasts, delivery plans, recovery plans, and scenario analysis. - Ensure that project and workstream plans are aligned with program objectives and critical milestones. - Oversee progress measurement, performance management, earned value analysis, and trend reporting where applicable. - Validate reported progress, cost data, forecasts, and delivery information. Cost and Financial Management - Lead program budget development, financial planning, forecasting, and cost control. - Monitor actual expenditure, commitments, accruals, benefits, funding profiles, and estimate-at-completion. - Review financial variances and ensure corrective actions are developed and implemented. - Work with finance, procurement, commercial, and delivery teams to maintain accurate financial information. - Support investment decisions, funding requests, business cases, and financial governance. - Identify financial risks, cost pressures, opportunities, and potential efficiency improvements. Risk, Issue, Dependency, and Change Management - Establish and oversee program-wide risk, issue, dependency, assumption, and opportunity management. - Ensure risks and issues are assessed consistently for impact, probability, ownership, and mitigation. - Lead the identification and management of cross-project dependencies and constraints. - Oversee program change control, including impact assessment, approval, implementation, and reporting. - Monitor the cumulative impact of changes on program scope, timeline, cost, resources, and benefits. - Escalate significant risks, issues, and decisions to the appropriate governance body. - Reporting and Performance Management - Define program reporting requirements, standards, calendars, and data quality controls. - Produce accurate and insightful program dashboards, performance reports, and executive summaries. - Report on milestones, schedule performance, cost, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, changes, benefits, and overall program health. - Identify trends, exceptions, emerging risks, and areas requiring executive intervention. - Provide clear recommendations to support prioritisation, decision-making, and corrective actio

Hard requirements are not explicitly delineated as a distinct list in the posting. The role implies senior PMO, programme controls, cost and schedule management, governance, and leadership experience, but no explicit minimum qualification or years are stated. Therefore, no discrete required items can be extracted.