Sponsor

6 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Sponsor

**Location**:
Reading, GB

**Department Name**:
Wales & Western Region

**About Network Rail**:
At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter.** **When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. **Watch our video to find out more**

The Wales & Western region includes more than 2,700 miles of railway and we serve communities and businesses of Wales, the Thames Valley, West of England and the Southwest Peninsula.
Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

**As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits**
- Privileged staff travel - Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel and includes family members.
- A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train.
- GWR ticket alliance - Heavily discounted all day passes for you and up to 5 friends and family to use across the GWR network (20 passes per year)
- Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a discounted offers and benefits including childcare, healthcare and online shopping site.
- A range of Pension schemes to choose from
- Effectively manage work-life balance with a 35hrs per week contract, hybrid working, and enhanced family friendly support.
- 5 days paid volunteering leave.
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community.
- In Wales and Western region, you will have the opportunity to join PROUD, our reward and recognition scheme where you can say thanks and recognise colleagues across the region who have demonstrated outstanding values and behaviours.

**Brief Description**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Greater Oxford investment hub to support the rail investment portfolio that includes Government funded enhancements, 3rd party projects and partner aspirations.

The role will support the team on the rail projects that form the Oxfordshire Connect programme which will bring additional services into Oxford with the introduction of East West Rail and the wider infrastructure enhancements that this requires including Oxford Phase 2, Cowley branch line and Oxford Station Masterplan.

You will engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across the industry, the local authorities and the local community and experience a broad range of activities that interface with different areas such as communications, strategic planning and project management.

You will seek to deliver project benefits to agreed scope, time and cost, striving to put passengers first in all that you do and also offering solutions to lower industry costs.

With a wide ranging portfolio of schemes, this will be a fantastic time to join the team and enhance understanding and capability of the Sponsor role.

**The location can be Reading or Swindon.**

**About the role (External)**:
**Your Main Responsibilities will be to**:
1. Build effective relationships, (internally & externally) to balance the requirements of the client, Network Rail and the industry as a whole. Champion the interests of clients, customers and stakeholders acting as the focal point for escalation within Network Rail.

2. Review and interrogate client remits to confirm their viability. Work with internal and external stakeholders to establish a scope which optimises client requirements, value for money, network availability and capacity for future development and whole life cost.

3. Be responsible for the conversion of the client remit into an agreed project requirements specification. Be accountable for the development of the initial project plan and budget; working with the project manager to specify how the project is going to be delivered, expected milestones and associated timescales, resource requirements, risks & issues and funding needs/sources.

4. Produce business cases and investment papers for projects.

5. Devise solutions which maintain the ‘business as usual’ accessibility for our customers, take consideration of the 7 day railway principles and therefore minimise disruption to end rail users. Take a national/route wide view across portfolios to generate additional benefits, identify and resolve conflicting work and drive efficiencies.

6. Lead the process of quantifying risk associated with th


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