Job Description

Job Summary As Programme Support Manager you will support the successful delivery of the Wakefield Work and Health Economic Accelerator Programme, working across funded interventions led by programme/ commissioning leads across the Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership. This role will coordinate project activity, support alignment across intervention areas and across all accelerator pillars and contribute to programme development and evaluation. The role will support the development of a Provider Collaborative Community of Practice (CoP) to connect interventions, encourage shared learning, and maximise programme impact. You will support the Place Programme Lead; to bring together and support intervention leads across all 3 pillars of work to support Wakefield in achieving its outcomes of reducing economic inactivity.



The Programme Support Manager will require significant involvement with stakeholders from a wide range of services including at executive level e.g., West Yorkshire delivery team and interaction with other place leads. Internally with Director of Strategy and partnerships, place commissioning leads and in some instances, provider leads, local authorities, VCSE, Hospital Trust, BI and evaluation leads. In addition, this post will be responsible for maintaining excellent project management processes to provide direct support to the place programmes lead in the overall monitoring and co-ordination of the programmes of work within the Wakefield Economic Accelerator Programme. You will have practical project management experience or demonstrable transferrable project management skills.



The post will also involve contributing to other areas of work as required, where delivery responsibility may be outside of your remit; therefore, the role requires excellent communication and negotiation skills to influence stakeholders from across a range of organisations. This work will also require the post holder to connect the work into the wider Trailblazer and Pathfinder work across the district, working with DWP and WYCA colleagues. We are piloting a hybrid way of working where staff work some of their time in the office and the remainder of their time working from home, so the ability to work to your own initiative and manage complex deadlines and workstreams is key to this role.