Digital Programme Manager

Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in Greater London is seeking a Digital Programme Manager to oversee a critical digital transformation program. This role involves managing a small team, delivering a range of digital solutions, and handling budgets between £0.5 and £0.75 million. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in digital project management, especially within Charity/NfP sectors, and experience with tools like Jira and Salesforce. The position is initially a 12-month maternity cover with competitive salary up to £48k and excellent benefits including flexible working practices.

Benefits

Pension

Annual leave

Medical benefits

Flexible working practices

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record in digital programme delivery.
• Solid knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Charity/NfP or membership organizations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team in delivering digital solutions.
• Manage contracts and budgets for multiple projects.
• Maintain the digital estate ensuring security and compliance.

Skills

Team leadership

Digital project management

Agile project delivery

Waterfall project delivery

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Salesforce CRM

Drupal

MS Project

Job description

Digital Programme Manager, Charity/NfP, up to c£48k + benefits

An experienced Digital Programme Manager with strong team leading and digital / website programme management and open to a hands‑on approach will have a fantastic opportunity available for this charity/NfP membership organisation based in London. The Digital Programme Manager can be either be predominantly home office based, or work more regularly in their central London offices, (applications will be looked at very flexibly for UK “right to work” candidates who cannot easily reach London). The organisation is a global leader for their field and this is a 12 month+ maternity cover role in an established programme as Digital Manager in their organisational change Digital Change Programme to help them transform and be fit for future.

Reporting to their Head of Membership, the Digital Programme Manager will lead a small internal team of including Technical Lead and Digital Project Manager’s and be responsible for the programme delivery of a variety of digital solutions with budgets ranging from 10’ks to 100’ks managing contract resources and 3rd party agency developers and having budgetary responsibility of between £0.5 and £0.75 million. Core technologies include Drupal, some Wordpress and Salesforce CRM, Jira, Confluence, Pantheon hosting services and Teams / Outlook. The organisation do not have their own internal development teams and work with a number of roster agencies on project delivery around the core technologies as well as having external support around web analytics and infrastructure. The Programme Manager’s responsibilities include contract management and negotiation, governance (ensuring appropriate reporting – weekly / bi-monthly / monthly – on projects, budgets, resourcing, etc), BAU maintenance of the digital estate ensuring it is secure and maintained, and working closely with internal colleagues across IT and Communications / Marketing on delivering the programme of works.

You are an experienced Digital Programme Manager with a demonstrable track record of success in digital programme delivery and a solid knowledge and experience in Waterfall and Agile project delivery with a range of public facing digital projects. You have strong skills in project management tools (Jira / MS Project) and excellent knowledge of digital technologies and how web systems are constructed. Experience of working in Charity / NfP, Public-facing / sector or Memberships organisation environments is very helpful. Experience with Drupal and Salesforce / CRM projects desired but not essential. More important are the attitude and skills to communicate and deliver with a variety of internal and third party / external parties in a collaborative approach to delivery.

Sound interesting? Would you like to know more? We’d love to hear from you! For more information e‑mail us or call for an informal chat during the day or to request an out of hours conversation. Ref: MD00466. The role is initially a 12 month+ maternity cover contract with salary dependent upon experience of up to £48k and including excellent benefits including a great pension, annual leave, medical and flexible working practices. Full details and job description available.

Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.