Job Description

Role context and purpose:

The Programme Manager is a highly skilled, experienced and specialised change professional, working with senior stakeholders to design and deliver strategic change projects, as well as ensuring all components of the complex change programmes are aligned and are being implemented at the required scale and pace.

Key Responsibilities:

At a project level, partner with senior stakeholders and business owners, providing a specialised blend of business change tools, techniques, knowledge and skills, ensuring that projects are designed and delivered as required, on time and within budget.

Lead, motivate and influence cross-functional project teams and work closely with business owners to develop ideas, business cases, feasibility studies and vendor selections.

Create and maintain appropriate programme plans and documentation that effectively manages the interdependencies between the individual projects and ensures programme delivery in full, on time and within budget.

Manage programme budgets, resource plans, risk management documentation and other associated controls to ensure the programme remains aligned and delivering at the scale and pace required.

Identify and solve programme issues, mediating disputes where required and demonstrating leadership and decision making.

Work directly with suppliers and partners (and their respective project managers) to design, co-ordinate and implement solutions.

Facilitate and encourage integrated working, promoting a one team approach to drive accountability and ownership across the organisation;

Flexibility to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by management.

Continually look at ways to make improvements to systems, processes and procedures.

Strive to live the BCS' values and support our purpose.

The content and reporting lines detailed in this job description may be reviewed and changed from time to time to reflect organisational requirements.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education & Qualifications:

Educated to degree or equivalent experience

PRINCE2 Practitioner an/or Agile Certified Practitioner and/or Certified ScrumMaster

Experience:

Demonstrable track record of:

- Delivering complex, strategic change at scale and pace

- Application of core business analysis and presentation skills in a variety of business environments

- Relationship management, with a wide variety of stakeholders

Competencies & Skills:

The highest standards of communication, across all levels and using appropriate methods and media to suit the audience

Excellent digital literacy with the ability to adapt to new or changing technologies or processes

Excellent social and interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain honest, positive relationships with stakeholders and internal customers of all levels of seniority

An ability to achieve results through the deployment of excellent influencing, negotiation and coaching skills

A well organised, self-motivating approach to work, and be able to manage complex and wide ranging workloads simultaneously

Knowledge:

A variety of Project Management methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall

Business Analysis methodologies (including MoSCoW, PESTLE, SWOT)

Change management models (such as McKinseys and Kubler Ross)

Data Protection regulations and best practice

Special conditions:

This role may be required to work outside of office hours on an infrequent basis.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme Private medical insurance Sick pay Transport links
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Swindon