Programme Delivery Manager at Met Office, Exeter, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

As Programme Delivery Manager for Digital Production Technology you will ensure the effective use of resources across teams through the use of appropriate metrics to ensure delivery of corporate objectives in line with strategy, highlighting when corrective action is needed. This will include ensuring appropriate monitoring and awareness of the performance of key suppliers is in place, ensuring they continue to meet our requirements whilst providing value for money for the organisation. You will utilise your depth of expertise and domain knowledge to challenge, influence and advise the creation of business plans and policies by senior/programme management, communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

As a Programme Delivery Manager your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide strategic leadership for the relevant Technology teams, inspiring the teams to deliver high quality services that enable the Met Office to achieve its goals.
• As a member of the Digital Production capability leadership team, lead by example in setting clear and consistent standards for staff management, staff development, workforce planning and change management.
• Ensure effective financial and risk management processes are employed to manage the relevant IT capabilities within agreed budgetary and risk tolerances.
• Adopt and embed relevant good practice, Agile, Lean etc. that ensures the relevant IT capabilities meet the current needs of the wider organisation and that plans and resources are in place to meet agreed future ambitions.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to challenge existing ways of working and to seek improvements that have tangible benefits for themselves and their customers.
• Work with peers and partners to undertake horizon scanning of industry trends determining their applicability to the Met Office and developing plans to adopt these.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.) 
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams and priorities within a complex environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels.
• Experience managing budgets and ensuring effective financial oversight and control.
• Experience delivering or supporting technical projects, working collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.