Programme Manager at Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK Office/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

As a Programme Manager , your main responsibilities will be:

• Communicates the vision and translates it into delivery objectives for the team. Leads the programme and team to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes. 
• Oversee the development of integrated workstream plans, ensuring each plan is robust, realistic and underpinned by clear milestones, dependencies, risk management and resource requirements.
• Maintain the overall integrity and coherence of the programme and governance frameworks to support each project. Plans programme assurance activities.
• Work with project leads and the business to ensure dependencies are actively managed. Act as an arbiter and enforcer, resolving issues between various programme elements.
• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships, highlighting the need for SCS support. Appropriately manages internal and external relationships.
• Overse risk and issue management, ensures mitigations are in place and resolved through negotiated agreements. 

PLEASE NOTE: 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.

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience leading a Programme Management Office and managing multidisciplinary teams, including direct line management responsibility for senior staff above
• Proven ability to provide leadership across multiple workstreams, business areas, and stakeholder groups, ensuring effective collaboration and delivery across organisational silos.
• Strong programme financial management experience, including budget ownership, resource planning, forecasting, and allocation of programme resources to meet delivery objectives.
• Experience delivering digital transformation and technology-enabled programmes within the public sector, with a track record of successfully implementing complex digital change initiatives.
• Experience in SCRUM

Desirable:

• Experience of working with operation and grants teams

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, DBT 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.

Armed Forces Covenant

DBT guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 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.