Schools Programme Manager

Schools Programme Manager

Duration: Mar 2024 – Jun 2024

Rate: Negotiable daily rates (Inside IR35)

Hybrid Working - Dorset Based

Assisting the Head of Service to deliver the service - responsible for shaping the strategic direction of the service by helping influence and develop strategic business plans, policy and procedure using information and data from customers.   

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate programme and project resources and be accountable for the performance, progress and timeliness of the Children’s Services capital programme including the development of policy and good practice in line with statutory requirements  
• Using project management skills and knowledge of effective change, oversee and manage change in the delivery of workstreams and transformational projects necessary to secure improvement and deliver our strategic priorities
• Oversee a large number of projects to ensure each project has clear purpose, scope, outcomes and communication, and is managed and delivered to time and budget in line with robust processes and procedures
• Responsible for daily programme management including programme governance, programme planning, performance, budget, coordination of projects and their interdependencies, resource allocation across projects, aligning deliverables to programme outcomes  
• Manage resources flexibly to ensure delivery of service objectives longer term plans
• Monitor against budgets and delivery of targets against time and cost, maintaining formal project controls and approvals and reporting variances, assumptions and dependencies, ensuring these are visible and accessible and continually updated and acted upon
• Contributing towards shaping the strategic direction of the service by helping influence and develop strategic business plans, policy and procedure using information and data from customers
• Identify interdependencies with other Council projects and developments and negotiate agreed solutions that ensure optimum mutual benefit and ensure suitable mitigation processes are put in place as appropriate
• Establish and maintain effective working relationship with key stakeholders at a high level and externally, to ensure effective communication and involvement with project activity and achieve collective objectives and to address complex and contentious issues and overcome any barriers to joint working
• Working with the Corporate Estates and Health and Safety teams, lead in the development and timely delivery of a good estate management function for schools and act as service representative in respect of health and safety standards across the maintained school estate
• Responsible for engaging senior leaders and elected members take timely decisions about the allocation of resources to projects and programme priorities involving the preparation of briefing notes and formal reports as part of the democratic decision-making process
• Consider the changing needs of the Programme during the lifecycle and align resourcing considering both short and long-term implications to ensure strategic direction is supported
• Responsible for ensuring projects, risks, mitigations and opportunities are conveyed to stakeholders and make evidence based and outcome focussed decisions to ensure the quality of the service is maintained
• Maximise resources through submission of external bids for funding working with local and national partners

Requirements:

• Degree qualified, preferably in the built environment
• Post graduate specialism degree level and commensurate professional experience
• PRINCE 2 / PMP / RICS or equivalent project management qualification or equivalent professional experience
• Good understanding and proven delivery of programme management within a local authority and politically stimulating environment
  
  

If you are interested in the role, we would love to hear from you! Please apply to receive more information.

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