Overall Purpose of Job

• Drive system wide change through a passion and commitment to equalities and diversity.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership on relevant programmes and projects.
• Lead the programme team encouraging innovation and supporting change.
• Ensure the delivery of the programme plan in line with the Council's objectives and targets.
• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders and effectively influence to deliver improved services and outcomes for residents.
• Manage people, delegated budgets and other resources, utilising them innovatively and creatively to benefit residents, ensuring expenditure is contained within budget and risk and need are balanced, to deliver the best outcomes for service users.

Job Summary

• The postholder will report into the Assistant Director of Environmental Transformation
• The postholder may have line management of the NGDP placements and the delivery of the programme
• The Council is moving towards becoming a community wealth building based organisation. This will involve moving away from traditional service delivery towards providing services in a more innovative, customer outcome focussed manner, in order to achieve efficiencies and value for money.
• The postholder will be expected to co-ordinate internal capability and external partnerships for the business to deliver effective change and realisation of projected benefits. The role will oversee all aspects of an ongoing programme, from its development to implementing program activities. Furthermore, it will ensure the programme is progressed to a consistently high standard, within budget, that objectives are met on time, suiting the council's policies and objectives. Finally the role will make sure the programme meets professional and industry standards.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities:

Key tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder and employees will be expected to carry out such other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

• Plan and design the programme and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.
• Define the programme's governance arrangements.
• Ensure effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards
• Managing the programme's budget on behalf of the SRO, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.
• Keeping up with relevant subject matter and using innovative channels for sharing information across the programme.
• Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and programme governance arrangements.
• Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme's individual projects
• Manage third party contributions to the programme and communications with all stakeholders

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.