Programme Manager

This role is Inside IR35

Clearance: DV

Contract Length: 17/01/2025 TBC

Location: London

Skills

•Excellent managerial and leadership skills.

•Strong situational awareness and business acumen, able to tailor style and approach to a variety of situations, and comfortable of working with a degree of ambiguity or uncertainty.

•Ability to self-task based on strategic direction, ensuring the delivery of the given scope of work of their programme(s), on time and to budget in accordance with the programme plan.

•Strong negotiating and influencing skills at a senior level, geared to deliver outcomes.

•Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and senior stakeholder engagement skills including experience in developing briefings for senior management.

•Ability to communicate with staff at all levels across the organisation, at both the strategic and tactical level.

•Analytical and problem solving skills required to troubleshoot programmes.

Essentials Experience

•Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing 

•Experience of working in and delivering collaborative, multi-agency / joint programmes (or complex projects) into multiple business units / businesses, with hybrid team construct.

•Experience in managing an organisational change (transformation / redesign) driven programme, often enabled by technology, and successfully delivering service improvements (effectiveness), and/or productivity improvements and / or cost reduction (efficiencies).

•Operating within a project / programme delivery environment with personal responsibility for delivering against a defined plan, including tranche, release and phase management.

•Experience in establishing an effective governance model, defining and implementing impactful stakeholder management strategies and supporting communications plans.

Essential:

• Managing Successful Programme (MSP): Advanced Practitioner or Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).

Desirable:

• PRINCE2: Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).
• Contract Management: Foundation Course.
• Change Management Qualification
• Management of Risk
• Project Planning and Controls
• Agile or Prince 2 Agile
• ITIL Foundation