31528 - National Delivery Manager

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A public environmental agency in the UK seeks a Senior Leader in Project and Programme Delivery to manage complex projects, enhance working relationships, and ensure effective project execution. Ideal candidates will have a degree in engineering or project management, a solid understanding of programme management principles, and experience in stakeholder management. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on environmental improvement and community engagement.

Qualifications

• Experienced leader with a proven track record in developing and delivering complex programmes.
• Significant experience in managing complex stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong mentoring skills to help others in their work.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business and Workstream leads to integrate new workstreams.
• Build relationships for effective project delivery.
• Identify dependencies between projects.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Collaboration

Project management

Education

Degree in engineering, project management or environmental related discipline

Project management qualification

Job description

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community wishing to join a workforce which embraces difference and welcomes everyone.

Working in Project and Programme Delivery you will engage with the wider business and Workstream leads to assess and integrate new and improved workstreams ensuring the approach is deliverable, embedded and resourced. This is an influential and exciting senior leadership position that enhances and develops great working relationships to deliver outstanding results.

Reporting to the Deputy Director, you will work closely with other Senior Users and Delivery Managers in the team, to ensure optimal delivery of the flood investment programme. This role acts as the conduit between delivery on the ground and more nationally strategic elements of our work, offering an insight into the full range of our work. This role will also be pivotal in identifying logical and logistical dependencies between projects.

Using your excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, you will build relationships to ensure effective and efficient project delivery, alongside senior representatives from other internal teams and external partners. You will have demonstrated strong commercial acumen in contract management and developing effective and trusting delivery partner relationships.

To succeed in this role, you will need a solid understanding of programme management principles and demonstrable experience applying them in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises Having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.

The team

You will join the Project and Programme Delivery team, co-locating with teams from across the Environment Agency and supplier delivery partners. We create a better place through excellence in project and programme management.

Our award-winning team is at the heart of integrated project and programme delivery. We collaboratively deliver sustainable asset management projects, reducing flood risk, delivering environmental improvements and reducing carbon, creating added value and a greater sense of shared ownership with local communities.

Experience/skills required

You’ll have a degree in an engineering, project management or environmental related discipline ideally with a project management qualification and chartered membership of a relevant professional body.

As an experienced leader, you’ll have a proven track record of successfully developing and delivering complex programmes of work in collaboration with others - harnessing their skills, promoting innovation, and driving the improvement of individual and business performance through the efficient and effective use of resources.

You’ll have extensive experience managing complex stakeholders, operating across all levels of an organisation, demonstrating strong interpersonal, collaboration, influencing and negotiating skills. You will have strong mentoring skills to help others in the delivery of their work.

Significant experience in managing programmes of work, plus one or more of the following areas is essential:
• Project governance
• Commercial and contract management
• Project management of engineering and construction projects
• Business management
• Resourcing and Recruitment