PMO Analyst - ETP

PMO Analyst – ETP

£33,000 - £38,000 plus benefits

Reports to: PMO Manager

Grade: P1

Directorate: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

External Closing date: 3 July 2026 23:55
Internal Closing date: 10 July 2026

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: One stage role based competency interview.

Summary of the Role’s Main Purpose:

The Engage Transformation Programme (ETP) vision is to inspire millions more people to support our mission, by providing brilliant products, services and experiences that better meet their needs, so more people live longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. We will achieve this through being more audience-centred, data and digitally driven, and innovative.

This is a key role within the ETP PMO. The individual will support programme leadership by providing key programme management functions that enable appropriate governance and effective delivery.
 

Support the PMO Manager including key accountabilities:

• Maintain the high level delivery roadmap working with initiative leaders to ensuring it provides clear visibility of strategic milestones, decision points, critical dependencies and sequencing to enable effective programme decision making.
• Coordinate quarterly planning cycle enabling programme leaders to plan delivery to achieve objectives – work with stakeholders, distribute outputs, facilitate approvals, incorporate into BAU plans and logs, set up reporting.
• Monitor delivery progress across all initiatives, gathering info on progress and priorities and flagging where activity is off track, draw insights from PMO data, and escalate risks and issues or interventions required where activity is off track.
• Maintain portfolio management documentation and controls used in ETP, including risk, action and decision frameworks, ensuring they are used consistently to drive effective delivery management following CRUK standards and practices.
• Partner closely with the ETP Programme Director and PMO Manager to shape high quality programme reporting, insight informed decision making.
• Maintain overview of key ETP governance forums, ensuring agendas, inputs and outputs across Trustees, EB, Steerco and team meetings are well sequenced, purposeful and support strong programme governance. · Proactively manage the creation of high-quality deliverables (e.g. governance documents, business cases, content deep dives), ensuring people who are responsible for content are briefed and set up to deliver (e.g. clear templates, timelines, division of responsibilities, quality standards adhered to)

Key Technical Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours:

• Good project management and planning skills in technology lead projects and comfortable with working flexibly and in a rapidly changing working environment
• Highly organised with the ability to manage deadlines and conflicting priorities
• Experience of building and maintaining collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to identify and solve problems with a straightforward and effective approach
• Able to analyse, interpret and compare a range of options and present recommendations
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Experienced in preparing governance documents that enable appropriate oversight, discussion and decision-making
• Ability to create and deliver communications to multiple audiences
• Ability to design and plan meetings to achieve objectives
• Dedicated team player with desire to contribute
• Flexible, versatile and pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Advanced experience of Microsoft Office tools.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

• Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination  
• Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism   
• Human: Act to have a positive impact on people  
• Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We’re looking for employees who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

Eligibility criteria

Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles. You should also advise your current line manager at the point you make an internal application, or at the latest, at the point of being invited for an interview.
 

All internal candidates applying for a secondment, must have:

• completed their getting started period
• discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager
• been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (this is only applicable if you have previously been on secondment)

If you do not confirm that you meet these requirements, we will not be able to progress your application.

There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. 

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner. 

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at [email protected]. 

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.