Role: Programme Director REF 93537
Contract Length: Until 26/10/2025
Location: Hybrid working (travel required on an as and when basis - Birmingham, Newcastle, London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool or Bristol)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Programme Director for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Being accountable to the Programme SRO, the post-holder will be responsible for a defined set of interdependent projects and the associated business change activities within the programme. They will have primary responsibility for successful delivery of the required outcomes, including: the establishment of appropriate governance that fully integrates with organisational governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues, and ensuring business readiness for change.
The post-holder may have one or more Project Managers / Directors reporting to them, who will be responsible for the successful delivery of their projects within the programme but ultimately accountable to the Programme Director.
The role will be suitable to an individual who is an experienced Government Project Delivery professional who has successfully managed highly complex projects and programmes (high complexity initiatives are generally characterised as having a high degree of uncertainty, are large in size, politically sensitive, technically complex, have many stakeholders and often need procedures and methodologies to be adapted to suit unique situations).
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
- Hold a recognised project delivery leadership certification i.e. APM chartered project professional or major projects leadership academy, or equivalent.
- Hold a recognised ppm practitioner certification i.e. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), APM chartered project professional, Prince2 / agile, or equivalent.
- Hold a graduate or post-graduate degree in a relevant area, or equivalent professional qualification.
- Be able to demonstrate considerable depth and breadth of experience in leading and delivering highly complex business change programmes in the public sector.
- Have experience and knowledge of applying different methodologies to project delivery (waterfall / agile / hybrid) and applying the ddat perspective, gds service manual and standard, and the government functional standard for project delivery (002)
- Be experienced in leading and establishing governance frameworks for a complex change programme, including defining roles and responsibilities, accountabilities, controls, and approval routes appropriate to each stage of a programme / project to monitor progress and compliance.
- Be experienced in leading how financial budgets and resources are managed in the context of a complex change programme, including how resources should be allocated to optimise return on investment, and providing decision-making on when activity should be stopped, started, or continued to best support successful delivery of programme objectives.
- Be experienced in leading the effective management of programme risks and issues in a complex change programme and planning how to successfully mitigate them.
- Be experienced in leading the management of dependencies across a complex change programme.
- Be experienced in leading the management of benefits across a complex change programme.
If you are a Programme Director, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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Disability Confident
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