Project and Programme Manager

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Ofwat Full time

At Ofwat, we are hiring a Project and Programme Manager to join our team, either at our Birmingham or London base.

**Senior Associate, Project and Programme Manager, PR24**
**Birmingham (B5 4UA) or London (E14 4HD), with hybrid working**
- **Full Time and Part Time Available**:

- **£35,328 - £52,660 per annum**

**Please Note: Applicants must be authorised to work in the UK.**

Ofwat (The Water Services Regulation Authority) is a non-ministerial government department. We regulate the water sector in England and Wales.

Safe, reliable and sustainable water and wastewater services are essential for our day-to-day lives, our wellbeing, and our natural world.

Our role is to help it build trust and confidence with customers, the environment and wider society.

Our work is high-profile and fast-moving, within a dynamic and agile environment. The work that you’ll be involved in every day will be about helping us to deliver our strategy, and helping the sector to deliver outcomes that matter to customers and society.We will adapt, be confident, act with purpose and integrity and continuously improve so that we make the greatest contribution possible to improving life through water.

We are forward-thinking, creative, innovative and ambitious. We constantly push the boundaries and embrace new ways of working. We actively encourage autonomy, collaboration and innovation and there’s a real adult culture fostered by trust, flexibility andrespect. As a learning organisation we actively embrace new ways of working and provide the freedom to our people to work smarter achieving a work life balance.

**About the role**:
We are seeking an experienced professional to lead the Programme Management for PR24, our upcoming regulatory price review. PR24 will set the revenues for water companies as well as the outcomes that they will need to deliver during the period from 2025 to2030.

We recently published our PR24 final methodology setting out our framework to drive companies to deliver value for customers and the environment and to meet four key ambitions for PR24:

- Focusing on the long term;
- Reflecting a clearer understanding of customers and communities;
- Delivering greater environmental and social value; and
- Driving improvements through efficiency and innovation.

The PR24 programme needs effective, proactive programme management to ensure we deliver on these ambitions.

As a Senior Associate working within PR24 programme management, you would:

- provide specialist programme management support to a flagship programme within Ofwat;
- be exposed to fast-paced policy development, and production of key regulatory publications;
- liaise effectively with colleagues both in policy teams and in Corporate teams such as Finance, Procurement, and the People team; and
- play a key role in shaping the development and continuous improvement in Ofwat’s systems and culture, particularly around programme management and corporate planning.

**Key Deliverables**:

- Planning activity and monitoring across the programme;
- Facilitate effective reporting and escalation of risks and issues;
- Ownership of weekly dashboard and reporting;
- Ownership of collating/completing monthly reporting for senior leadership team;
- Attending weekly governance meetings and managing notes/action points;
- Supporting budget and contract management; and
- Supporting management of programme Sharepoint area

**Essential Professional Requirements**:
**Experience, Skills and Knowledge**:

- At least 2 years programme/ project management experience, demonstrating an understanding the principles and frameworks of successful programme management in a policy environment, including identifying risks and implementing solutions.
- Experience of building professional relationships and possession of strong interpersonal skills to achieve successful programme outcomes.
- Ability to analyse complex information and ideas and use multiple sources of information to create meaningful solutions
- Demonstrated capabilities for problem solving, decision making, sound judgement
- Good oral and written communication skills, including PowerPoint, Word and Excel

**Attributes and Behaviours**:

- Making relationships count
- Promoting collaboration
- Delivering Outcomes
- Champion and leader of change
- Adaptable thinker

**Benefits**:

- A generous Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%;
- Access to our package of benefits via our 'Edenred’ scheme. This is a voluntary benefits scheme where staff have access to exclusive discounts on a range of goods and services such as retail outlets, theatre tickets, holidays, insurance and gym membership;
- Cycle-to-work scheme;
- Season ticket loan for travel between home and office;
- Flexible working arrangements;
- Fees paid for membership of relevant professional bodies;
- Regular professional development;
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Health and well-being initiatives

**You must be authorised to work in the UK. No agencies please.**

Other suitable skills and experience includes Project Manager, Project Management, Programme Manager, Senior Associate, Manager, Water, Water Industry, Water Treatment, PR24.

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