Head of corporate strategy Work, Jobs in Scotland (with Salaries)

Head of PMO
OFGEM —Glasgow
- £63,443 - £86,547 a year
- Full-time
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
13d
Head of Corporate Communications, Brand & External Engagement
Glasgow Kelvin College —Glasgow
- £61,086 - £66,345 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- No degree
- Annual leave
Head of Regional Fundraising Scotland
Marie Curie —Scotland
- £46,350 - £51,500 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Hospice
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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7d
Head of Corporate Communications & External Affairs
Highland Spring Group —Blackford
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- Leadership
- Sick pay
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Head of Corporate Services
Care Support Scotland —Edinburgh
- £52,999 - £53,000 a year
- Full-time
- Accounting
- Leadership
Head of HSE
JamesFisher —Glasgow
- Travel
- Leadership
- Communication skills
11d
Senior Sourcing Coordinator
DFYNE —Uddingston
- Full-time
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation
G5 Transformation and Business Change Manager
South Lanarkshire Council —South Lanarkshire
- £67,430 - £80,697 a year
- Full-time
- Military
- English
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Assistant Head of Delivery (UKSV)
Cabinet Office —Glasgow
- £57,204 - £63,953 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- AI
- Annual leave
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Head of Procurement
FWB —St. Andrews
- Full-time
- Contracts
- IT
- Leadership
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
5d
Senior Commercial Operations Manager
Glasgow Life —Glasgow
- £66,165.67 - £76,627.94 a year
- Temporary
- Hybrid work
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Senior Communications Manager (Business School) - AD2776
University of St Andrews —St. Andrews
- £47,389 - £58,226 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- University
- School
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Senior Scrutiny Officer (Climate Change)
Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) —Edinburgh
- £49,401 - £59,152 a year
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Senior Scrutiny Officer (Climate Change)
Environmental Standards Scotland —Edinburgh
- £49,401 - £59,152 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Travel
- Annual leave
- Flexitime
249107- Energy and Sustainability Manager
NHS Scotland —Bothwell
- £52,845 - £61,466 a year
- Call to connect
- Master's degree
- Annual leave
- Sick pay
5d
FCR 4917 Executive Director - Housing and Technical Resources
South Lanarkshire Council —South Lanarkshire
- £170,208 - £174,989 a year
- Full-time
- Military
- Continuous improvement
- No degree
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
1h
Lawyer
Ministry of Justice —Glasgow
- £50,001 - £60,001 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Administrative experience
- Analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
6d
External Communications & Content Manager
Nadara —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Spanish
- English
- Communication skills
Head of Finance and Commercial
Fair Work Agency —Edinburgh
- £69,185 - £78,401 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Sick pay
11d
Lawyer
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority —Glasgow
- £58,511 - £65,329 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Administrative experience
- Analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
6d

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Head of PMO

OFGEM -
Glasgow

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£63,443 - £86,547 a year
13 days ago

Benefits

Season ticket loan
Annual leave
Company pension
Flexible schedule

Qualifications

Presentation skills
PRINCE2 Certification

Full job description

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Reference number

468014

Salary

£63,443 - £86,547

National £63,443-80,425
London £67,975-86,547

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

OFGEM L3

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

OFGEM - Corporate Services

Type of role

Business Management and Improvement
Project Delivery
Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

Location
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Location

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow.

About the job

Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britains independent energy regulator. Our primary responsibility is to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable, while at the same time working with government, industry and consumer groups to deliver a clean, more affordable and secure net-zero energy system at the lowest cost to consumers and drive economic growth.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

Role Purpose:

The Head of PMO plays a key leadership role in enabling effective oversight of delivery across the Change Office, leading and continuously improving programme and delivery governance, ensuring Steering Groups and senior forums receive timely, decision-ready information to support effective oversight and course-correction. The role sets and embeds consistent PMO standards, tools and ways of working across programmes and major change initiatives to increase delivery confidence, transparency and alignment. It provides integrated reporting on delivery progress, benefits, spend and capacity at a programme and cross‑cutting initiative level, proactively highlighting exceptions and recommending remedial action.

The role oversees delivery risks, dependencies and assurance activity, ensuring issues are identified early and escalated appropriately. Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leaders and Steering Groups, the Head of PMO supports clear decision‑making on priorities, sequencing and trade‑offs, enabling accountable follow‑through and successful delivery. The role operates in a developing delivery environment and will play a key part in bringing structure, consistency and clarity to governance, reporting and oversight.

Job description

Key Accountabilities:

Own and maintain effective governance and oversight across programmes and major change initiatives, ensuring senior forums have clear, timely and decision-ready insight on delivery performance, benefits, spend and capacity.
Ensure delivery risks, dependencies and assurance findings are identified early, actively managed and escalated appropriately to protect outcomes.
Advise senior leaders and Steering Groups on priorities, sequencing and delivery trade‑offs, providing evidence and insight to support clear decision-making priorities.
Drive continuous improvement in PMO capability, tools and assurance approaches to strengthen delivery confidence and organisational maturity.
Lead, develop and deploy PMO capability to support current and future change activity, fostering a high‑performing, inclusive and resilient team.

Key Responsibilities:

PMO Governance & Decision Support

Lead PMO governance and decision support for programmes and major change initiatives, enabling multidisciplinary teams to deliver agreed outcomes.
Run end‑to‑end governance cycles, including forums, agendas, papers and actions, ensuring decisions are clearly recorded and followed through.
Use governance forums to surface risks, challenge delivery confidence and support effective decision-making.

Delivery Reporting & Performance Insight

Produce high‑quality reporting and management information covering delivery progress, milestones, benefits, spend and capacity.
Highlight exceptions, risks and emerging issues, recommending evidence‑based actions to keep delivery on track.

Risk, Dependency & Assurance Management

Maintain an integrated view of delivery risks and dependencies across programmes and major initiatives.
Coordinate assurance activity, including internal reviews and gateway‑style checkpoints, ensuring findings are tracked and escalated appropriately.

Standards, Tools & Continuous Improvement

Define, embed and continuously improve PMO and programme management standards, templates and ways of working.
Use feedback, insight and delivery performance data to strengthen assurance, transparency and delivery confidence.

Leadership & Capability

Lead and develop the PMO team, setting clear priorities and accountabilities aligned to delivery and governance needs.
Build PMO and assurance capability across the Change Office and role‑model inclusive, collaborative and high‑performance leadership behaviours.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

Significant experience leading PMO, governance or assurance for complex change programmes involving multiple workstreams and senior forums. (Lead Criteria)
Demonstrable experience operating as a trusted internal adviser, providing evidence-based insight and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders.
Strong track record of delivering high-quality governance, reporting and assurance that supports effective decision-making and delivery oversight.
Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to manage risks, dependencies and delivery performance.
Professional qualification or equivalent experience in programme/project delivery (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, P3M3).

Desirable Criteria:

Experience working in complex regulated environments.

Qualifications

Professional qualification or equivalent experience in programme/project delivery (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, P3M3).

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace
Changing and Improving
Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £63,443, OFGEM contributes £18,379 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; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Restaurant and subsidise gym (London only). Interest free season ticket loan.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , 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.

Candidates are required to provide an anonymised CV and tailored supporting statement of no more than 1250 words, providing evidence against the essential criteria. Candidates who do not provide a tailored supporting statement will not be invited to interview.

Should we receive a high number of applications a pre-sift on the lead criteria will be conducted. "Significant experience leading PMO, governance or assurance for complex change programmes involving multiple workstreams and senior forums".

The interview will include a short presentation. The title will be confirmed and made available to candidates invited to interview.

Due to high volumes of applications, we are only able to provide feedback at interview.

Please refer to Civil Service candidate advice on the acceptable use of Artificial intelligence within the recruitment and selection process - Artificial intelligence and recruitment , Civil Service Careers

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.

Security

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)
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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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 .

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 and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Dominique King
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should email The Head of Talent Acquisition at: [email protected] in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission. More detailed information can be found on the Civil Service Commission website.

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