Newham Council

Overall Purpose of Job

Drive system wide change through a passion and commitment to equalities and
Provide strategic direction and leadership on relevant programmes and
Lead the programme team encouraging innovation and supporting
Ensure the delivery of the programme plan in line with the Council's objectives and targets
Build strategic relationships with stakeholders and effectively influence to deliver improved services and outcomes for residents.
Manage people, delegated budgets and other resources, utilising them innovatively and creatively to benefit residents, ensuring expenditure is contained within budget and risk and need are balanced, to deliver the best outcomes for service users.

Job Summary

The postholder will report into the Assistant Director of Change and Insight or the Programme Director.
The postholder will have line management of the NGDP placements and the delivery of the programme.
The Council is moving towards becoming a community wealth building based organisation. This will involve moving away from traditional service delivery towards providing services in a more innovative, customer outcome focussed manner, in order to achieve efficiencies and value for money.
The postholder will be expected to co-ordinate internal capability and external partnerships for the business to deliver effective change and realisation of projected The role will oversee all aspects of an ongoing programme, from its development to implementing program activities. Furthermore, it will ensure the programme is progressed to a consistently high standard, within budget, that objectives are met on time, suiting the council's policies and objectives. Finally the role will make sure the programme meets professional and industry standards.
The post holder may be required to work some evenings, weekends and occasional public holidays in order to meet service requirements and to ensure appropriate representation of the Council with residents, the Mayor and elected Members, and external bodies.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities:

Key tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder and employees will be expected to carry out such other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

Plan and design the programme and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.
Define the programme's governance arrangements
Ensure effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards
Managing the programme's budget on behalf of the SRO, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.
Keeping up with relevant subject matter and using innovative channels for sharing information across the programme.
Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and programme governance arrangements.
Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme's individual projects
Manage third party contributions to the programme and communications with all stakeholders
Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and risks to the programme's successful outcome.
Working with the business change manager or equivalent on the transition to the new business as usual position.If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance