Programme Manager
12903
Job Title: Programme Manager
Salary: £69,161 to £79,882 plus a Location allowance of £1,721.
Location: 40-42 Newlands Park, Sydenham, London, SE26 5NF, (Agile working across MPS Estate)
Do you have the expertise, vision and leadership qualities we need to shape and drive change and help keep Londoners safe? This is an exciting time to be working for the Transformation Directorate as we support the Met to adapt and respond to the ever-changing needs of policing our capital city. We are looking for high quality individuals to deliver a range of change and transformation programmes, working with colleagues across the Directorate and beyond.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion and implement effective programme delivery, supporting the vision to attain a world class transformation function
- Manage communication and engagement with programme stakeholders, developing and maintaining strategic relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing and the MPS
- Provide overall direction and leadership for the programme and project delivery teams in scope of the role
- Build and sustain capacity and capability within the programme and project teams to deliver the programme
- Manage programme team resources, ensuring they are tasked effectively to deliver programme outcomes
- Ensure delivery of programme and project outcomes and benefits
- Lead the programme, including set-up, management and delivery, ensuring that the programme delivers and meets all TD processes, standards and reporting requirements
- Deputise for the SRO of the programme where required, with authority to make delegated decisions, and be the key contact for the programme for senior stakeholders
- Co-ordinate projects and their interdependencies
- Identify, manage and resolve risks, track and manage costs and benefits, provide reports as required, and ensure all outputs meet professional standards set by the portfolio office
- Describe the purpose and intended outcomes of the programme to a wide variety of stakeholders ensuring that key messages are understood and recognised
- Own the programme business case
- Monitor programme cost and financial requirements and ensure compliance with schemes of delegation
- Develop solutions as necessary to ensure programme outcomes and key benefits are delivered. This may range from workshops, meetings and the production of key artefacts
- Manage dependencies to and from and to the programme
- Works with colleagues in business change to ensure operational effectiveness is not impacted and the programme outcomes are delivered
Communications and Working Relationships
The programme manager develops and maintains strategic relationships with:
- Senior leaders in the Met, principally the SRO for their programme, to provide meaningful insights, challenge to inform strategic decision making, and act in the SRO’s place as needed
- Enabling functions related to their programme, which may include digital policing, finance, OCUs, BCUs, to problem-solve, integrate and collaborate to the benefit of operational policing and the wider MPS
- Partners to the Met where relevant to their programme to influence and understand changes in strategic direction or trends
- Head of programme delivery to support them in building the capability and capacity of the programme manager pool, project managers and assistant project mangers
- The programme manager works closely day-to-day with their peers on other programmes where there is a need for integrated and collaborative working, to problem solve to the benefit of operational policing and the wider MPS.
The programme manager leads and manages the teams working on the programme and all the projects within it, including the project managers. This is to:
- provide quality outputs to time, quality and cost, that enable programmes to achieve their outcomes
- ensure that all staff on their programmes and projects develop their expertise to a world-class standard
- allocate and prioritise programme resources to the overall benefit of the portfolio
- work with contractors within their area to meet changing resource requirements across the programmes and portfolio, ensuring quality of output and value for money
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your CV should be concise and set out your career history, key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years (maximum of 2 A4 pages). Your Personal Statement should evidence how your skills and experience make you suitable for this role (no longer than 500 words). NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV.
Completed applications must be submitted by 04/04/2023.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
What does it take to work in the Transformation Directorate?
The Transformation Directorate specialises in delivering complex change. As a portfolio we specialise in P3M (Project, Programme & Portfolio Management) & Project Controls, Business Analysis, Design and Business Change. Through our portfolio of programmes and projects we ensure the correct level of riggor and discipline is applied to deliver the outcomes and benefits we require.
To succeed we need experienced professionals who:-
- Are experienced in driving transformational change to ensure alignment to a common vision and strategy
- Enjoy working collaboratively and leading multi-disciplinary teams
- Are experienced in managing multiple stakeholders and balancing competing demands
- Can build capability and develop talent across the function
- Can work with integrity and demonstrate respect for others
- Use experience and insight to make evidence-based decisions
What do we look for in a Programme Manager?
As programme manager you will provide leadership and direction for the programme and projects delivery teams - ensuring they are managed effectively and have appropriate controls in place to provide confidence and assurance. You will be responsible for delivering the agreed outcomes and benefits of the programme – acting as the key contact for the programme with senior stakeholders across the extended executive. You will also work with the operational business to ensure that appropriate and effective business change strategies are in place.
In order to succeed you must be able to demonstrate:
- Senior leadership
- Influencing, negotiating with, and providing challenge to board-level stakeholders
- Working effectively with risk within a multifaceted change portfolio
- Creating and managing commercial relationships in a complex supply chain, assuring quality and delivering value for money
- Building capability and developing talent across the portfolio
- A successful track record of delivering programmes and embedding cultural change
- Knowledge of professional programme and project management approaches, methodologies and their practical application (a professional P3M based qualification such as MoP, MSP or APM is desirable).
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.