Senior Programme Management/Delivery Officer
Skills
BespokeBusiness Relationship ManagementContinuous ImprovementEqual OpportunitiesIssue ManagementPlaysProgrammes
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Experience working with grant monitoring performance or financial data
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships
- Strong task management and organisational skills including leading bespoke pieces of work and tracking deadlines
- Analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to assess risks interpret evidence and propose practical solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to draft coordinate and quality-assure accurate correspondence briefings and communications products
- A commitment to inclusive leadership continuous improvement knowledge sharing and learning from delivery experience
- Experience of programme governance PMO standards reporting risk and issue management assurance or delivery planning
Nice to have
- Business case knowledge
- Public sector data experience
- Proactive communications experience
Day to day
- Build and manage trust-based relationships with local authorities and delivery partners to support programme understanding delivery confidence and alignment with fund objectives.
- Coordinate governance reporting escalation routes and PMO processes to track progress risks issues dependencies and decisions across multiple funding programmes.
- Use data evidence and insight to support assurance monitor delivery performance improve reporting quality and inform senior decision-making.
- Draft coordinate and quality-assure correspondence briefings and communications products including ministerial submissions PQs FOIs and fund updates.
Hiring process
- Stage 1: Sift (CV & Cover Letter)
- Submit a merged single document containing your CV and cover letter of no more than 750 words
- Stage 2: Interview
- Attend a remote video interview assessing behaviours technical knowledge and strengths
