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YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
Mariam
You do not need to leave public service to get more freedom. You need to move from supporting governance to owning useful projects and improvements.
Your experience is much broader than administration. You have led people, implemented a major childcare programme, managed funding and large data sets, supported senior governance, tracked risks and actions, advised families and created practical guidance. The strongest pattern is organised delivery: you spot issues, create structure and help people get things done.
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£32k+ FTE · Part time · Home working · Flexible hours · Autonomy · Meaningful work · Creativity · Blackburn
20 years public service · Team leadership · Programme implementation · Governance · Data · Risk and action tracking · Guidance and communications · Strong IT
Planning and Governance Support Officer · Local authority · 20 years
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
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MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
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02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your value is not that you can support a process. It is that you can make complicated services organised, understandable and deliverable.
You combine governance discipline with practical delivery. You can manage detail, data, actions and risk, while also explaining information, creating guidance and supporting people. That combination transfers strongly into project delivery, programme coordination and service improvement.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
Around £30k–£40k+ FTE for project, programme and service-improvement roles, with progression beyond this as delivery ownership increases
A current Lancashire County Council Digital Project Officer vacancy is £29,071–£33,119 FTE and hybrid. This directly supports Mariam's £32k minimum as realistic for an immediate crossover role, while stronger project and service-improvement positions can progress higher.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
project delivery · programme coordination · PMO · governance · risk management · action tracking · service improvement · digital transformation · stakeholder engagement · public service
Local government · NHS · Education · Early years · Charities · Public health · Housing · Purpose-led organisations
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
The market increasingly describes your existing strengths as project delivery, PMO, governance, service improvement and digital transformation.
WORTH REFRESHING
Project terminology · Outcomes and benefits · Risk and dependency management · Digital delivery language · A small portfolio of guidance and communications work
SAFE TO IGNORE
The idea that twenty years in public service means you need to start again or retrain completely before you can move.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
20 years public service · team leadership · 30 hours childcare implementation · governance boards · risk registers · action tracking · funding · large data sets · family information · NHS administration · guidance and communications
Support-oriented job titles can make Mariam look more administrative than her evidence warrants, while her required part-time and home-working pattern materially narrows the vacancy pool.
SALARY
£32k FTE is realistic. A current Lancashire County Council Digital Project Officer role pays £29,071–£33,119 and closely overlaps with Mariam's governance, risk, reporting and organisational experience.
DEMAND
Current project vacancies are asking for risk and issue management, reporting, stakeholder engagement, strong organisation and the ability to keep delivery on track.
COMPETITION
Mariam can stand out by proving delivery rather than tenure: the borough-wide childcare implementation, team leadership and governance evidence are stronger signals than a generic support profile.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Test a move from governance support into project ownership before considering a complete career reset.
Turn the 30 hours childcare implementation into a project case study, reposition your governance work around delivery and risk, then search flexible Project Officer, Programme Officer, PMO and Service Improvement roles.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
Yes, there is a point in moving, but you probably do not need a dramatic career change. Your strongest experiment is an adjacent move into project, programme or service-improvement work where organisation, problem solving and autonomy are valued. That lets you change the working environment without discarding twenty years of experience.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Good crossover
Community Engagement Manager
Another Way
Remote, UK · Occasional UK travel
£32,000 FTE, pro rata
2.5 days per week · Part time · Remote · Flexible scheduling
A more exploratory Re-entry that connects Mariam's family-information experience, guidance and newsletters, Canva, organisation, spreadsheets, project delivery and preference for meaningful creative work. It explicitly offers part-time remote work with flexible scheduling.
View role →Strong crossover
Programme Officer
Health and Hope UK
Remote, UK
£34,000–£35,000 FTE, pro rata
20 hours per week · Part time · Remote · Two-year contract
One of Mariam's strongest matches: programme implementation, partner support, monitoring, organisation and meaningful public-interest work. It meets her part-time, home-working and £32k+ FTE requirements.
View role →Strong crossover
Commissioning and Contracts Support Officer
Lancashire County Council
Preston / Hybrid
£29,071–£33,119 FTE
18.5 hours per week · Part time · Permanent · Hybrid
A practical local-authority crossover using Mariam's service improvement, data, organisation, stakeholder support and public-service experience. Crucially, it is genuinely part time at 18.5 hours and hybrid, so it passes her working-pattern requirement.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
Build the childcare implementation case study · Rewrite governance responsibilities in project language · Search with part-time and hybrid filters from the start
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Project / Programme Officer
Organised public-service delivery across governance, funding, data, families, health and senior decision-making.
You see what needs organising, spot issues early and create practical structure that helps people and services move forward.
Project terminology · Outcome evidence · Risk and dependency management · Digital project methods · Examples of creative communications