Deputy Director for Programme Management Office

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 377093**Salary**:

- £76,000 - £85,000**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Change and Resilience Group**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery
Strategy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Birmingham, Blackpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pontypridd, SheffieldAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Are you an experienced leader in programme management and want to make a difference to peoples lives across the country?**

DWP is looking to fill Deputy Director for Programme Management Office roles within its Change portfolio.

At the core of DWP's Workplace Transformation Programme (WTP) is its Programme Management Office, set up to transform where and how we work, delivering a smaller, better and greener estate over a 10 year period and is part of the Government Major Project Portfolio.

As a department, we are committed to modernising our services and supporting managers and employees to deliver a truly inclusive working environment that enables smarter working. WTP will enable the department to be more efficient, greener and to work smarter to support the wider government priorities for getting people back into employment, deliver long-term savings and meet sustainability commitments. This includes how we use our workspaces, technology, people and culture.

**Job description**:
This role represents a rare opportunity to deliver a workplace that will be driven by the needs of the business, supports the wellbeing of our colleagues and will enable more flexible, effective and efficient services for customers whilst also making the best use of taxpayers’ money.

This role will provide expert guidance, support and insight to senior strand leaders and will the source of programme information and metrics, ensuring this is translated to meet the needs of stakeholders

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Lead on the shaping of the organisational and programme strategy; leading and investing in people; and creating a high performing culture to deliver benefits to customers, the department and wider government
- Lead programme governance, planning, reporting and controls. This includes leading PMO (Programme Management Office) function including reporting and oversight across the programme core and delivery teams
- Lead Programme Assurance and lead the implementation of a multiple lines of defence model
- Working closely with the Programme Director’s private office to ensure a seamless interface and enable efficient and effective join up with the Senior Responsible Owner alongside others
- Provide PMO leadership across the whole programme including the wider programme management community
- Act as senior escalation point for all Programme management issues and providing support to the strand delivery leads in their resolution
- Taking a corporate leadership role within DWP, ensuring Programme design principles are understood and ensuring that learning opportunities which arise from the programme are capitalised on and built into wider departmental thinking
- Lead development and approval of the Programme Business Cases
- With Programme Director lead engagement and reporting into Change Portfolio Board and provide leadership for DWP overall change and transformation agenda
- Manage risks and issues and demonstrate a proactive risk awareness culture
- Manage workforce planning for the Programmes ensuring there is appropriate focus on capability and succession planning
- Lead in the management of financial planning and controls, including spending review financial planning and reporting.

**Person specification**:

- Experience in the delivery of major change programmes and the complexity of large scale, digitally enabled transformation using project management frameworks and methodology
- Experience of leading at a senior level across multi-disciplinary teams, with the ability to implement and translate strategy into action, developing new approaches and setting a clear and compelling vision, that their teams (direct and indirect teams) can align behind to deliver
- A passion for building high performing teams, creating an inclusive and collaborative learning culture which values diversity and encourages openness, approachability, and sensitivity
- Strong relationship management skills - able to build a powerful network of partnerships to work collaboratively
- Commercially astute with experience of delivering senior stakeholder and organisational priorities
- Experience of successfully leading transformational change within a complex and multidisciplinary organisation, inspiring and motivating others to deliver tangible and sustained outcomes in a challenging and high-profile environment
- Strong collaboration experience both within teams and across diverse stakeholder and partner networks.

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