Programme Management Officer (PMO)

Join Barclays as a Programme Management Officer (PMO)/NAPA specialist, where you will act as a key interface between tech-delivery teams, programme managers, and governance stakeholders, ensuring that all activities are aligned with the broader Macro - Emerging Markets objectives and regulatory expectations.

You will support a strategic multi-year initiative aimed at significantly increasing market share and revenue across Emerging Markets (EM). The programme focuses on expanding product offerings—Futures, Bonds, Rates, FX, Structured Rates, and Money Markets—across multiple regions, and enhancing electronic EM trading capabilities through targeted platform and process improvements. This initiative is closely tied to Barclays’ broader goals of delivering high-quality income, allocating capital to high-returning businesses, and improving client outcomes.

PMO is an individual contributor role supporting programme managers across strategic change initiatives. You will play a central role in enabling delivery teams to stay focused on execution by providing structure, transparency, and compliance across the change lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include managing programme documentation (RAID logs, governance reports, change requests), resource forecasting, weekly reporting, and milestone tracking. You’ll prepare materials for governance forums, capture meeting minutes, and support escalation processes. The role demands a proactive approach to identifying risks, managing dependencies, and ensuring programme activities remain aligned with strategic objectives. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, adapt to evolving priorities, and maintain high standards of accuracy and timeliness in all reporting and documentation. Additionally, you’ll be expected to understand and apply governance frameworks, support senior stakeholders in their approval activities, and contribute to continuous improvement efforts across the programme. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, brings structure to complex programmes, and enables delivery teams to focus on outcomes.

You’ll also support the New & Amended Product Approval (NAPA) process by ensuring that any new, amended, or withdrawn product or service undergoes thorough risk evaluation and receives approval from all relevant business and functional areas before launch or withdrawal. This includes participating in risk and impact assessments, supporting risk mitigation efforts, administering documentation, and ensuring compliance with governance guardrails and controls.

To be successful as a Programme Management Officer (PMO)/NAPA specialist, you should have:

• Extensive previous experience in Project Manager / PMO / Portfolio role in international environment on complex multi-year programmes.
• Strong understanding of project / programme management methodologies and governance.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work with and present to senior stakeholders.
• Analytical and data-oriented mindset and be professionally inquisitive and accustomed to challenging information and assumptions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Proficiency in full MS Office suite and strong MS Excel literacy.
• Knowledge of investment banking products (e.g. Rates, FX, Equities) and governance processes.
• Experience with project financials tracking, management, and analysis.
• Ability to master and navigate new subject domains and processes quickly - to understand in detail the relevant governance frameworks, processes, expectations, and deliverables required by the role.
• To be able to review large amounts of data and identify possible risks from numerous sources of data.
• A capability of supporting senior management in their approval activities, managing their individual needs, and mitigating risk to them through structured process.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in our Prague office.

Purpose of the role

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
• Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management.
• Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.
• Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions / business divisions.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and / or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies / procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.