Business Engagement Programme Manager

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom London Gov Full time

In support of the delivery of positive employment outcomes for Londoners and working across skills and employment programmes, focusing first on the Mayor's Skills Academies and the Skills Bootcamps for Londoners programmes, work is underway to engage businesses from London's key sectors to ensure skills training addresses their current and future need, and to ensure they can access talent.

We are now seeking a highly motivated individual to lead this new area of work, identifying opportunities to engage with business to support the development and performance of our programmes, to maximise the number of Londoners supported by the Mayor's investment to enter or progress in employment, and to address skills gaps for employers in London's key sectors.

The successful candidate will lead a small team, so evidence of developing diverse talent and being accountable for performance is a necessary.

The Skills and Employment Unit is responsible for working with external partners to develop skills and employment strategies for London and managing the Adult Skills Budget, UK Shared Prosperity Fund and programmes such as the Mayor's Skills Academies, Skills Bootcamps for Londoners and Skills Capital investment programmes.

Manage the delivery cycle from project development through contracting to contract completion, closure and exit of a portfolio of complex projects, including proactive management and recording of:
financial and outputs performance, maintaining value for money
quality assurance and compliance through regular monitoring and audit of delivery partners and sub-contractors
the claims process to verify the validity, accuracy and eligibility claims paid
milestones, risks and issues

To strengthen local partnerships and linkages between employers, providers, boroughs, industry representative bodies, the GLA group and internal departments to ensure connectivity and coordination of activities.

Proactively lead on the overall performance of own team's portfolio of projects against financial and output/outcome targets, compliance, quality and risk and collaborate proactively with other Project Managers in the team and other stakeholders in a matrix management arrangement to develop and deliver the team's portfolio of projects and programmes as required.

Effectively line manage, lead and develop a team in order to deliver the objectives of individual projects or programmes within agreed timeframes, within budget, to specification and to operational compliance and quality standards, ensuring that team resources are planned and allocated effectively to meet anticipated demand and respond to changing priorities.

Identify and report on risks and issues as appropriate, and lead on resolution of operational, contractual and performance issues as they arise for own portfolio of projects and the team's.

Hold budget accountability for projects within own and team's portfolio, including responsibility for accurate budgeting, forecasting and compliance with GLA approval processes and all financial and regulatory requirements.

Lead on delivery to time, budget and quality of complex or sensitive corporate or team workstreams, for example programme management activities, programme evaluations, development or improvement of systems and processes to meet audit, programme or corporate requirements, ensuring that matrix project management is implemented effectively where relevant

Successful track record of monitoring delivery of complex and large-scale programmes, including delivery through multiple third parties and contract management.

Highly developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and manage influential and effective relationships with a diverse range of senior stakeholders, including business, to deliver successful outcomes.

Track record of developing, leading and managing teams, including tackling poor performance, developing talent, and being accountable for the team's performance
Building & Managing Relationships

Level 3 indicators of effective performance:
Adapts style to work effectively with partners, building consensus, trust and respect

Level 3 indicators of effective performance:
Level 3 indicators of effective performance
Helps others understand the GLA and the complex environment in which it operates
Helps others understand how the media and external perceptions of the GLA influence work
Managing and Developing Performance
... is setting high standards for oneself and others, guiding, motivating and developing them, to achieve high performance and meet the GLA's objectives and statutory obligations.
Level 3 indicators of effective performance
Agrees and monitors challenging, achievable performance objectives in line with GLA priorities
Manages performance issues effectively to avoid adverse impact on team morale and performance
Planning and Organising
... is thinking ahead, managing time, priorities and risk, and developing structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard.

Level 3 indicators of effective performance:
Ensures evaluation processes are in place to measure project benefits
Gains buy-in and commitment to project delivery from diverse stakeholders
Implements quality measures to ensure directorate output is of a high standard
This role is based at London Fire Brigade's Head Office (Union Street SE1 0LL)

GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role.

As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.
Please note all applications for this vacancy must be submitted via our online recruitment system. London's diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.

We also offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days' annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme.

Reasonable adjustment will be made to working arrangements to accommodate a person with a disability who otherwise would be prevented from undertaking the work.

Should a candidate deliberately give false information, including the use of AI software, they understand that this would disqualify them from consideration.

If you are a GLA employee applying for an internal fixed term position, as an internal secondment opportunity, you must ensure you satisfy the following secondment policy criteria listed below before applying
On a permanent contract or a fixed term contract where the time left on the contract at the point at which you apply for secondment is longer than the secondment period;

successfully completed your probation period and are performing to the required standard for your current role; For further information, please seeSecondment Policy and Procedure .

If you are a current GLA employee on fixed term contract, which is due to end BEFORE the end date of this vacancy, you DO NOT NEED to complete theApproval for secondment application form as it is not a secondment.

If you have a disability which makes submitting an online application form difficult, please contact [emailprotected] .
The GLA is proud to be a Level 2: Disability Confident employer.

We are committed to becoming a more inclusive and accessible organisation, and creating a truly inclusive and accessible workplace and culture for our disabled staff.

We have named Disability Equality as a key corporate priority within our EDI Strategy. It will also help usif you tell us which assistive technology you use.

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