Helping to shape the future of modern healthcare. This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to play a key role in delivering one of the NHS’s most significant transformation programmes.
Following the Government’s 2025 ministerial announcement, Airedale General Hospital has been confirmed as a Wave 1 scheme within the New Hospital Programme (NHP) . As part of this high-profile portfolio, the Securing the Future Programme is driving forward a complex, multi-million-pound programme of work—bringing together multiple projects, stakeholders, and delivery partners under a single, coordinated programme structure.
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive PMO Officer to help strengthen programme controls, governance, and reporting across this ambitious programme. You will be instrumental in ensuring that projects are well-managed, performance is clearly understood, and leadership teams have the insight they need to make informed decisions.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a structured programme environment and wants to contribute to best-in-class project and programme management practice at scale.
The postholder will lead day-to-day programme and project controls for the Securing the Future Programme, working with workstream leads, clinical teams, project managers, boards and specialist advisors to support effective delivery.
The role will support planning, scheduling, milestones and reporting standards, including use of tools such as Primavera P6 or MS Project and associated training.
The postholder will maintain StF resource documentation and support effective information management across programme documentation and records.
The role will provide governance and secretariat support for key forums, including terms of reference, workplans, agendas, minutes, action logs and decision records.
The postholder will coordinate RAID, change control, benefits management and assurance activity, ensuring risks, issues, decisions, changes and benefits are recorded, governed and reported appropriately.
The role will support continuous improvement, post-contract supplier management, and compliance with Trust financial, delegation and procurement governance requirements.
The postholder will support the Programme Execution Plan, Project Initiation Documents, Project Delivery Plans and the StF reporting timetable, ensuring clear, consistent management information for governance meetings.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
Cycle to Work
Travel Scheme
Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
Onsite Nursery
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
Committed to Quality of Care
Compassion
Working together for patients
Improving Lives
Everyone Counts
Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Key Responsibilities
The post holder shall be responsible for the following duties:
1. To support the PMO Manager in the implementation of a range of programme and project management capabilities and controls supporting the successful delivery of the programme, including contributing to updates to the Programme Execution Plan (PEP), supporting Project Managers/Workstream Leads with the development of and updates to Project Initiation Documents, Project Delivery Plans and similar core project documentation for approved projects.
2. To support the PMO Manager in the delivering a robust governance structure, terms of reference and workplans for multiple governance meetings to deliver effective decision making and reporting on the Programme log.
3. To support the PMO Manager and PMO Office Manager with the development and coordination of agendas, papers and minutes for the meetings within the StF governance structure.
4. To coordinate an effective benefits management process, supporting benefits owners with the identification and tracking of benefits as part of their realisation, generating benefits maps and other collateral to provide assurance around the successful achievement of outcomes.
5. To support the PMO Manager in the audit and review of Programme controls on a periodic basis to provide assurance within the StF Programme governance on the efficacy of controls.
6. To support coordinating the post contract management with the PMO Manager ensuring the robust management of deliver against contract and if necessary, change management to adhere to Trust Standing Financial Instructions and the StF Scheme of Delegation and Procurement Governance Framework
7. To coordinate a robust information / document management system for the programme working with the programme administration team.
8. To support an effective reporting process, including the use of appropriate reporting tools and associated training, working with external providers as necessary.
9. To liaise with Project Managers and Workstream Leads to identify KPIs/reporting metrics that can be used to monitor the programme and project delivery.
10. To support Project Managers in collating and analysing complex management information for reporting to specific meetings which enables them to fulfil their decision-making and assurance roles.
11. To support the implementation of collaboration tools (e.g. Teams, SharePoint, Trello etc), developing consistent standards for their use and associated training.
12. To attend appropriate Programme governance meetings as required.
13. To contribute to other organisation-wide projects as required from time-to-time.
14. To support and lead workshops with Programme teams and other stakeholders as may be required from time-to-time.
15. To perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post under the direction of the Head of PMO and Programme Director.
