Job Description

Fixed Term Contract until November 2025

Joining us as PMO Analyst, you’ll provide effective and coordinated support within the Programme Management Office, ensuring a consistent, scalable, and standardised delivery of projects, to agreed business methodologies, whilst supporting both project and functional leads to deliver timely milestones.

You’ll provide PMO analysis and support to agreed change projects and produce key metrics for projects, ensuring that the status is updated and maintained through the project governance channels so stakeholders can quickly identify progress and issues. Updating and maintaining the project CARDI, you’ll produce weekly and monthly reporting for the governance committees on specific projects and contribute to the governance packs for Corporate Investment and Development Committees.

The successful candidate will have proven PMO experience, including a track record in delivering projects within a PMO function. Comfortable working within cross-functional change teams, you’ll have experience in delivering robust documented processes and have knowledge of PMO and project methodologies.

Delivery focused, you’ll have strong, creative problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at a project level. You’ll bring effective organisational skills and knowledge of MS 365 tools including MS Project and MS Visio. Knowledge of the finance sector is desirable.

About Us

Based in Leeds, Border to Coast is the largest LGPS (Local Government Pension Scheme) pool in the UK. It is owned by 11 Local Government Pension Schemes (‘Partner Funds’). The Partner Funds represent 3,100 employers and over a million members.

The Partner Funds are Bedfordshire, Cumbria, Durham, East Riding, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Surrey, Teesside, Tyne and Wear and Warwickshire.

The Partner Funds have c.£64bn in investments, of which Border to Coast is directly responsible for the management of £40.3bn (as of 31 March 2024). Border to Coast also provide support and advice on a further £8.2bn, primarily invested in index funds, which sit outside of the pool.

Border to Coast offers its 11 Partner Funds investment opportunities across equities, fixed income, private markets, and global real estate. UK real estate is under development.

Since launch, Border to Coast has been awarded ‘Best Pool of the Year’ at the LAPF Investment Awards three years out of four, most recently won the ‘Pool Innovation of the Year’ and named at the Professional Pensions UK Pensions Awards as ‘Equity’ and ‘Alternatives Manager of the Year’.

In 2024, Border to Coast was also awarded Sunday Times Best Place to Work

Joining Border to Coast, you will have access to our excellent benefits:

* Vitality Health Insurance for all employees

* Employee Assistance Programme

* A generous holiday allowance of 30 days a year, plus bank holidays, as we feel it’s important for colleagues to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

* Professional Development

* Critical Illness Cover

* Pension scheme

* Stunning Leeds city centre location only a short walk to the train station

* Cycle to work scheme

* Life Assurance 6x of salary

* Sustainable travel plans and public transport discounts

* Range of discounts for Leeds gyms, shops and restaurants