CIP Programme Manager
Posted 1 day ago by Oxford University Press
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Programme Manager will oversee the delivery of large-scale Education technology programmes, managing multiple complex projects to achieve strategic business outcomes. This role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure alignment and clarity across the programme while maintaining strong relationships and resolving interdependencies. The position is based in Oxford and operates under a hybrid working policy, requiring a minimum of two days per week in the office. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of large-scale Education technology programmes.
- Manage multiple large and complex projects focused on digital products and enabling systems.
- Align programme objectives with institutional strategy and goals.
- Manage stakeholders and monitor programme dependencies.
- Collaborate with Sponsors, Project Managers, PMO, and key stakeholders across Technology and Education teams.
- Build and maintain strong positive stakeholder relationships.
- Drive resolution to complex and ambiguous interdependencies.
Key Skills:
- Strong background in programme and project management.
- Proficiency in programme methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, Agile/SAFe).
- Ability to identify and track internal and external dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Strong financial management and benefits realisation experience.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Oxford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
About the Role
The Programme Manager will lead the delivery of large-scale Education technology programmes. This role involves managing across multiple large and complex projects focused on digital product and enabling systems to deliver required strategic business outcomes. The Programme Manager will ensure successful outcomes by aligning programme objectives with institutional strategy and goals, managing stakeholders, monitoring programme dependencies, and aligning and tracking plans across all dependent projects and initiatives. The role will collaborate with Sponsors, Project Managers, PMO, and key stakeholders across Technology and Education teams to ensure there is alignment and clarity of approach across the programme. The role requires a deep level of expertise in building and maintaining strong positive stakeholder relationships across Education and Technology, and the ability to drive resolution to complex and ambiguous interdependencies for the successful delivery of business outcomes. We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office. This is a 18-month fixed term contract with the possibility of extension.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:
- Strong background and understanding of programme and project management and end to end delivery models for change initiatives within a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Proficiency in programme methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, Agile/SAFe) and governance.
- Ability to identify, track and concisely define internal and external dependencies across programmes, projects, and BAU teams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build collaborative relationships whilst holding to account and having challenging conversations.
- Strong financial management and benefits realisation experience.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind, we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment. Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information. We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.