Housing Improvement Programme Manager (Hybrid)

Colchester Borough Council; Braintree; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Local government pension scheme

Learning and development

Employee discounts

Recognition schemes

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Braintree District Council is seeking a Programme Manager (Housing Improvement) to mobilise and deliver the Housing Improvement Programme, driving homelessness prevention, reducing reliance on Temporary Accommodation, and improving customer access.

You will lead governance, manage risks, coordinate multiple workstreams, and provide strategic advice to senior leaders to secure organisational change within a fixed-term contract.

Qualifications

• Recognised programme or project management qualification (e.g. MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ or equivalent).
• Significant experience leading or project/programme managing complex transformation, improvement or change programmes.
• Experience working within local government, housing, public sector or similarly complex environments.
• Experience of governance, business case development and benefits realisation.
• Experience of service improvement, organisational change or operating model development.
• Experience of housing, homelessness, customer-facing service transformation, demand-led services or related public sector improvement programmes is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience of programme governance, benefits realisation, risk and dependency management within complex organisational environments.
• Experience of working with senior leaders, boards and governance structures to drive programme delivery and secure organisational change.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of a complex transformation programme comprising multiple interdependent projects and workstreams.
• Establish and maintain effective programme governance arrangements, reporting mechanisms and decision-making processes.
• Manage programme-level risks, issues, dependencies and resource requirements, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation where required.
• Develop and implement benefits realisation plans to ensure programme outcomes and improvements are measurable and sustainable.
• Drive delivery momentum across multiple workstreams, ensuring progress is maintained against ambitious timescales and competing priorities.
• Influence and coordinate delivery through senior leaders, managers and project teams within a matrix management environment.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, securing commitment and engagement to support programme objectives.
• Provide strategic advice and challenge to senior management and governance boards regarding programme performance, risks and delivery strategies.
• Navigate complex organisational and service environments, balancing regulatory requirements, service demand pressures, operational priorities and transformational change.

Skills

Programme management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Benefits realisation

Public sector experience

Leadership

Education

APM PMQ / equivalent

PRINCE2 Practitioner

Job description

Braintree District Council is seeking a Programme Manager (Housing Improvement) to mobilise and deliver the Housing Improvement Programme, driving homelessness prevention, reducing reliance on Temporary Accommodation, and improving customer access.

You will lead governance, manage risks, coordinate multiple workstreams, and provide strategic advice to senior leaders to secure organisational change within a fixed-term contract.