Job Description

This is an Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunity, available on a lateral move basis only. Applications are open to Core Scottish Government employees only.

Job Title – PMO Officer

Business Area/Directorate - More Homes Scotland

Location – Glasgow and Edinburgh

Working Arrangement – Staff in roles compatible with hybrid working should aim to spend 40% of their contracted working time working in person at their contractual workplace. More information can be found within Hybrid Working Policy

Grade - B2

Advert type - Level Transfer

Duration - 18 months with the possibility of extension

Eligibility - Expressions of interest are invited from B2 colleagues on level transfer

Skilled Worker Sponsorship not being offered

Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK.

The More Homes Scotland Transition Team is looking for a PMO Officer to help drive forward the establishment of Scotland's new housing delivery agency. This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of a high-profile transformation programme, coordinating key projects, supporting governance and delivery, and helping ensure the agency is established on strong foundations.

More Homes Scotland Is being established as a new Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, in response to the scale and urgency of Scotland’s housing challenges and the need for a stronger, more delivery focussed approach to housing supply.

The creation of More Homes Scotland reflects a commitment to address these challenges by simplifying how housing delivery is supported, strengthening operational focus, and enabling greater scale and speed of delivery across all tenures.

To support the move from programme design to implementation, a dedicated, time-limited Transition Team has been established. The Transition Team’s primary goal is to design, coordinate and oversee the establishment of More Homes Scotland, ensuring the agency is set up in a coherent, well governed and deliverable way.

The team will:

• Develop the agency’s Target Operating Model, clarifying its core functions, roles and ways of working
• Coordinate governance, assurance, finance and resourcing actively to ensure readiness for implementation
• Support informed Ministerial decision making and alignment with wider public service reform objectives
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Scottish Government and with stakeholders to draw on delivery expertise and share the agency’s design

The Transition Team will play a critical role in ensuring More Homes Scotland is positioned to move confidently into its next phase, with clear purpose, strong foundations and a shared understanding of how it will operate and add value.

The post holder will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the More Homes Scotland Transition Programme. Working within a multidisciplinary team, they will help coordinate and manage project activity to ensure work progresses in a structured, well-governed and deliverable way.

Key responsibilities

• Support the planning and delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring activity is clearly defined, appropriately sequenced and aligned to overall programme priorities.
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of core documentation, including project plans, risks and issues logs, highlight reports and governance papers, ensuring these are up to date and aligned with programme standards.
• Support risk, issue and dependency management, ensuring these are identified, recorded and actively monitored, with appropriate escalation where required.
• Work collaboratively with policy, operational and corporate colleagues to coordinate inputs, manage interdependencies and maintain alignment across workstreams.
• Support the preparation of governance and reporting products, including Programme Board papers, briefings and progress updates, ensuring information is clear, accurate and supports effective decision-making.
• Help ensure compliance with agreed project and programme management standards, providing constructive challenge and support to maintain quality and consistency of outputs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes, tools and ways of working, supporting a more efficient and effective programme environment.
• Work flexibly across the Transition Division, supporting priority activity and responding to changing demands in a fast-paced and high-profile programme environment.

Success Profiles

Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of behaviours, experience and technical criteria (if applicable) that candidates will be assessed on.

Experience

• Experience of supporting the delivery of projects or programmes in a fast‑paced environment, including planning, coordination and tracking of activity.
• Experience of developing and maintaining project documentation and reporting, ensuring information is accurate, up to date and aligned with agreed standards.
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders to gather inputs, coordinate activity and support delivery across teams.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines, maintaining quality and attention to detail.

Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing – Level 3
• Working Together – Level 3
• Delivering at Pace – Level 3
• Seeing the Big Picture – Level 3

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Behaviour levels - Success profiles: candidate guide

Working Pattern

We operate a hybrid working model, with all colleagues expected to spend a minimum of two days per week in an office location.

The Programme Team meet weekly in person, alternating between Glasgow and Edinburgh. These sessions are an important forum for collaboration, collective problem-solving and maintaining pace of delivery. Team members are therefore encouraged to attend regularly, recognising the value these meetings bring in ensuring alignment across workstreams and supporting effective programme delivery.

The post is a full time role, but staff with different working patterns are invited to apply, and we will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.

Further Information

Further information about this opportunity is available from MoreHomesScotlandAgencyTeam@gov.scot

How to Apply

Please submit an Expression of Interest (maximum 500 words), describing how your skills, qualities and experience make you suitable for the role. You should make particular reference to, and structure your supporting statement around, the Success Profile noted in the job advert.

Confirmation that you have discussed the opportunity with your manager or director, and they would release you within the expected four-week period if your application were successful.

Vacancy closes at 23:59 on Wednesday 29 July.

Interviews

Interviews to be confirmed

Selection Process

The selection process will be short and light touch. Candidates who are considered to have the skills and experience will be invited to an audio interview with the recruiting manager and another panel member. They will recommend the candidate considered most suitable for the opportunity.