Programme Manager
Summary: A government organisation is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to enhance public sector digital services. The role involves leading complex programmes, ensuring alignment among teams, and providing senior leaders with essential information for decision-making. The Programme Manager will support a transformative agenda aimed at improving user experiences in public services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate programme plans across multiple workstreams, ensuring clear priorities, milestones and outcomes.
- Monitor progress, manage risks, issues, dependencies and critical paths to keep delivery on track.
- Support governance and decision-making through clear reporting, updates and recommendations for senior leaders.
- Build strong relationships across government, suppliers and partner organisations.
- Encourage collaboration, continuous improvement and effective ways of working across teams.
Key Skills:
- Experience managing complex, multi-year programmes involving multiple stakeholders and areas of delivery, including policy, commercial and technical teams.
- A recognised programme/project management qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM or PMI.
- Strong experience managing governance, approvals, risks, dependencies and reporting.
- Ability to build effective partnerships across government, suppliers and external organisations.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues and provide clear recommendations to senior decision-makers.
Salary (Rate): £650 per day
City: London, Bristol, Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
A government organisation is recruiting for an experienced Programme Manager to join the team and help shape the future of public sector digital services.
The team is responsible for frameworks that help teams across government design and deliver high-quality, user-centred services. This role will support an ambitious programme of change, helping organisations adopt improved standards, guidance and ways of working to create better experiences for citizens using public services.
As Programme Manager, you will bring together complex areas of work, ensuring teams are aligned, delivery stays on track, and senior leaders have the information they need to make effective decisions.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate programme plans across multiple workstreams, ensuring clear priorities, milestones and outcomes.
- Monitor progress, manage risks, issues, dependencies and critical paths to keep delivery on track.
- Support governance and decision-making through clear reporting, updates and recommendations for senior leaders.
- Build strong relationships across government, suppliers and partner organisations.
- Encourage collaboration, continuous improvement and effective ways of working across teams.
Essential skills and experience:
- Experience managing complex, multi-year programmes involving multiple stakeholders and areas of delivery, including policy, commercial and technical teams.
- A recognised programme/project management qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM or PMI.
- Strong experience managing governance, approvals, risks, dependencies and reporting.
- Ability to build effective partnerships across government, suppliers and external organisations.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues and provide clear recommendations to senior decision-makers.
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