Graduate PMO Consultant – Hybrid Opportunities in Oxfordshire & Essex

Graduate PMO Consultant – Hybrid Opportunities in Oxfordshire & Essex

One office day and four remote-working days each week

Graduate scheme | Full-time | Hybrid

Build your career while helping improve essential public services

Join Grayce as a Graduate PMO Consultant and support a high-profile public-sector transformation programme.

You’ll contribute to work designed to improve essential community services, including housing, community support and local operations. Your work will help project teams plan effectively, manage risks, monitor progress and make informed decisions.

You’ll gain hands-on experience at the heart of a complex organisational change programme, while developing transferable skills in project management, governance, finance and stakeholder engagement.

The role combines meaningful client work with Grayce’s Accelerated Development Programme, dedicated mentoring, a minimum of six industry-recognised accreditations and additional CIPFA-aligned training.

A genuinely flexible working pattern

You’ll usually spend one day each week at the relevant client office, with the remaining four days worked remotely.

The client opportunities are connected to Woking and Essex. Further information about the location relevant to your opportunity will be provided during the application process.

Because you’ll only need to attend the office once a week, this opportunity may be suitable even if you live further away and would need to commute for between one and two hours.

Before applying, please make sure you can reliably travel to the relevant location for your weekly office day.

What is a PMO?

PMO stands for Project Management Office.

A PMO helps projects and transformation programmes operate effectively. It provides the structure, planning, reporting and governance that allow project teams and senior stakeholders to understand:

• What needs to be delivered

• Whether work is progressing as planned

• What risks or issues need attention

• How budgets and resources are being managed

• What decisions need to be made

You don’t need previous PMO experience. Grayce will help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to contribute confidently.

What you’ll be doing

Your responsibilities may include:

Project planning and control

• Updating project plans, timelines and milestones

• Monitoring progress against agreed objectives

• Tracking actions, decisions and dependencies

• Helping teams keep project information accurate and up to date

Governance and reporting

• Supporting governance meetings and processes

• Preparing project updates and performance reports

• Maintaining templates, frameworks and delivery standards

• Helping ensure information is clear, consistent and reliable

Risk and issue management

• Maintaining risk, assumption, issue and dependency logs

• Following up with project teams for updates

• Helping identify risks that could affect delivery

• Escalating information to the appropriate stakeholders

Budgets and business cases

• Supporting budget tracking and financial reporting

• Gathering information for business cases

• Helping project teams understand costs, progress and potential benefits

Stakeholder engagement

• Coordinating meetings and workshops

• Preparing agendas, papers and actions

• Building relationships across different project teams

• Communicating information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

You’ll typically work with one client at a time. This allows you to understand the organisation, build trusted relationships and see how a major transformation programme develops.

What you’ll learn

Through your client work and the Grayce Accelerated Development Programme, you’ll develop practical skills in:

• Project and programme management

• Planning and governance

• Risk and issue management

• Budget monitoring

• Business-case development

• Performance reporting

• Stakeholder engagement

• Public-sector transformation

• Professional communication

• Structured problem-solving

Alongside a minimum of six industry-recognised accreditations, you’ll receive additional CIPFA-aligned training to deepen your understanding of public-sector finance, governance and service delivery.

This combination will give you a valuable foundation for a career in PMO, project management, business analysis, transformation or consulting.

What will help you succeed

We’re looking for people who are organised, curious and motivated by work with a genuine social purpose.

You’ll be a strong match if you can demonstrate:

• Clear written and verbal communication

• Strong organisation and attention to detail

• A logical and structured approach

• Problem-solving and critical thinking

• The confidence to work with different stakeholders

• The ability to manage several tasks and deadlines

• Teamwork and collaboration

• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn

• Adaptability when priorities change

Your experience could come from your degree, a group project, part-time work, volunteering, a student society, an internship or another extracurricular activity.

You don’t need to have previously worked in project management or the public sector.

Why join Grayce?

For more than a decade, Grayce has helped FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and other ambitious UK organisations deliver major change and transformation programmes.

By joining Grayce, you’ll receive:

• Real responsibility on a live public-sector transformation programme

• Experience of project planning, governance, risk and reporting

• Additional CIPFA-aligned training

• A minimum of six industry-recognised accreditations

• Dedicated coaching and mentoring

• Clear pathways for career progression

• Significant annual salary increases as you develop

• A working pattern of one office day and four remote days each week

• Access to Grayce’s 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, providing confidential financial, legal, health and wellbeing support

Location and working pattern

This is a full-time hybrid opportunity connected to client locations in Woking and Essex.

You’ll normally work:

• One day each week at the relevant client office

• Four days each week remotely

Please apply only if you’re able to travel reliably to the relevant location for the weekly office day.

Ready to start your PMO career?

If you want to build practical project-management skills while contributing to work that improves essential public services, apply today.