PMO Manager

The PMO Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring effective project delivery by monitoring project performance, proactively identifying issues and risks, facilitating timely escalation, and supporting resolution across stakeholders. The role acts as a governance enabler, ensuring alignment, transparency, and disciplined decision-making across the project portfolio.

• Monitor assigned projects against schedule, budget, scope, quality, and risk indicators
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project data within PMO systems (e.g., dashboards, trackers)
• Track milestone progress, dependencies, and critical path risks
• Identify early warning signals and flag deviations proactively
• Log, track, and monitor project issues in a centralized system
• Support Project Managers in structuring issues clearly (impact, options, recommendations)
• Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate level based on defined escalation thresholds
• Track escalated items through to resolution and confirm closure actions
• Ensure escalation decisions are documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Coordinate and facilitate periodic risk assessment meetings
• Maintain project risk registers, ensuring risks are:
• Clearly articulated
• Properly assessed (probability, impact)
• Assigned to accountable owners
• Track mitigation actions and follow up on overdue or ineffective responses
• Support continuous improvement of risk identification and mitigation practices

• Support alignment across Project Managers, functional teams, vendors, and leadership
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to resolve interdependencies and conflicts
• Ensure clarity on decisions, responsibilities, and next steps following governance meetings
• Act as a neutral PMO point to support collaboration and reduce misalignment

• Ensure projects comply with PMO governance standards, templates, and reporting cadence
• Support preparation of governance forums (steering committees, executive reviews)
• Track action items, decisions, and follow-ups from governance meetings
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO tools, processes, and frameworks

• 4 - 8 years experience in project coordination, or project control roles
• Familiarity with project governance, escalation models, and risk management practices
• Familiarity in project management tools

• Experience supporting complex, multi-stakeholder projects, ideally in a similar industry
• PMP / PMO-related certification is a plus (not mandatory)
• Strong project tracking and coordination capability
• Structured thinking and problem framing
• Risk identification and assessment skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Stakeholder coordination and follow-up discipline
• Proactive and detail-oriented
• Calm under pressure and escalation situations
• High sense of ownership and accountability
• Ability to balance governance discipline with delivery pragmatism