SHEC PMO Coordinator

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a SHEC PMO Coordinator to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a SHEC PMO Coordinator - This position is based from our Warwick office 2/3 days however we also offer flexible hybrid working options.

This is a Great opportunity to develop the PMO function and work closely with the senior leadership team

Job Purpose

The SHEC PMO Coordinator provides a central coordination point for priorities, governance, projects, improvement activity and leadership operations across the Safety, Health, Environment and Communities (SHEC) function within Electricity Transmission (ET). Working closely with the SHEC Senior Leadership Team, the Head of Performance & Stakeholder Engagement and colleagues across the function, the role maintains visibility of key deliverables, initiatives, commitments, actions, decisions, risks and dependencies, helping ensure that agreed activity is effectively coordinated, progressed and escalated where appropriate.

The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining core PMO and governance processes that support the successful delivery of SHEC objectives. This includes coordinating project and portfolio information, leadership governance, business planning activities, reporting and assurance requirements, and the effective management of actions and decisions arising from leadership forums. Through disciplined coordination and follow-through, the role helps create alignment, transparency and accountability across SHEC.

Acting as the custodian of key coordination tools, registers and planning mechanisms, the role supports leadership teams by providing clear visibility of delivery activity, emerging risks, competing priorities and organisational commitments. The postholder will work collaboratively with stakeholders across SHEC and ET to ensure information is accurate, timely and decision-ready

What You'll Do

• Act as a central coordination point for SHEC, connecting priorities, activities, stakeholders, information, actions and decisions to support the effective delivery of SHEC objectives.

• Maintain visibility of SHEC deliverables, projects, initiatives, commitments, risks, dependencies and actions, ensuring progress is monitored and emerging issues are identified and escalated where appropriate.

• Coordinate and maintain SHEC PMO and portfolio management processes, including portfolio information, planning activities, delivery tracking and reporting arrangements.

• Coordinate SHEC leadership meetings, workshops and engagement activities, ensuring effective planning, preparation, follow-through and accountability for agreed outcomes.

• Maintain and continuously improve key SHEC planning, reporting, governance and coordination tools, registers, trackers and forward plans to support visibility, consistency and effective decision-making.

• Coordinate the gathering, validation and presentation of information from stakeholders across SHEC, ensuring outputs are accurate, complete, timely and decision-ready.

• Support risk, assurance, audit and compliance activities through effective coordination of information, actions and stakeholder engagement, while maintaining clear accountability with relevant owners.

• Support with quality assurance and challenge on reports, presentations, papers and submissions, promoting consistency, accuracy and adherence to agreed standards.

• Support the management of work demand, competing priorities and cross-functional activities, helping to provide visibility of workload, dependencies and resource impacts across SHEC.

• Build effective working relationships across SHEC, ET and wider National Grid to promote collaboration, communication and alignment of activities.

• Identify opportunities to improve governance, reporting, coordination and business processes through the effective use of Microsoft 365, AI, automation and digital tools.

• Provide flexible coordination and business support to strategic SHEC priorities, projects and initiatives as required, ensuring focus remains on agreed functional objectives and commitments.

About You

• A collaborative, proactive and improvement-focused approach.
• Experience coordinating multiple priorities, stakeholders and deadlines within a complex business environment.
• Experience supporting governance, projects, portfolio management, business planning, risk, assurance or continuous improvement activities.
• Strong planning, organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing demands and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to analyse, interpret and communicate complex information clearly and effectively for a variety of audiences, including senior leaders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive progress without direct authority.
• Strong attention to detail, with experience producing or quality assuring reports, presentations, governance papers and management information.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 (including Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Word and Excel), with an interest in digital tools, automation and AI-enabled ways of working.
• Demonstrates sound judgement, discretion and professionalism when handling sensitive or confidential information.
• Understanding of SHEC, regulated infrastructure, ET a comparable operational environment is desirable.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary between £44,000 - £52,000 dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive

• 26 days holiday, plus eight statutory days, an option to buy extra holiday days, and the option to holiday swap up to 3 bank holiday days
• An annual performance incentive
• A generous pension scheme, double matched up to 6% of your salary each month. For every £1 you contribute we’ll put in another £2, so if you put in 6%, we’ll add 12% giving a total of 18% to your pension pot
• Life insurance at 10 times basic salary
• Employer funding towards a portion of your Private Medical Insurance.
• You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More Information

The closing date for this vacancy is 26th October. However, we encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/

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