Programme Coordinator – Adult Skills Fund

EAST MIDLANDS COMBINED COUNTY AUTHORITY; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional authority in Chesterfield is seeking a Project Manager for their Adult Skills Programmes team. You will oversee various adult skills initiatives like the Adult Skills Fund, managing projects to ensure they meet quality standards and budget targets. The ideal candidate will have a degree, project management qualifications, and substantial experience in managing complex projects. This role is office-based in Chesterfield.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management from initiation to closure.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
• Understanding of effective financial management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor progress against time and budget targets.
• Develop and maintain project documents.
• Liaise with stakeholders for adequate resourcing.
• Analyze information for management reporting.
• Facilitate system improvements and process mapping.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Financial management

Analytical skills

Change management

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Project management qualification (PRINCE2, Agile)

Job description

Join us and help deliver adult skills programmes across the region to equip our communities with the skills they need to access employment and careers.

Welcome to EMCCA

EMCCA is the UK’s first mayor-led combined county authority. The East Midlands is a great region. But it deserves to be better. Better connected, better funded and better prepared for a future of opportunity, growth, and hope. EMCAA will oversee devolved powers around transport, housing, skills and adult education, economic development, and net zero. We will conceive the strategies and create the connections that will empower local partners, people and businesses – maximising the impact of billions of pounds of funding. Together, our new EMCCA team can put the East Midlands on the map as a place to live, work and study.

Your role in elevating the East Midlands

You will be part of the Adult Skills Programmes team, which is responsible for £60+ million spent annually via commissioned learning organisations. In this key role you will help with the delivery of the Adult Skills Fund (ASF), Free Courses for jobs, Skills Bootcamps and other adult skills programmes across our region.

You will use your experience of project management methodology to plan and deliver projects to agreed standards, timescales and budgets with minimal supervision.

Key responsibilities include:

• Monitoring the progress of a project or workstream against agreed and documented time and budget targets while ensuring appropriate quality standards are maintained.
• Initiating, developing and maintaining a suite of appropriate key project documents, to provide evidence of outputs, outcomes, methods of delivery and project benefits.
• Facilitating system improvements and development to map current and future processes.
• Regular reviews of the project or workstream plan, identifying risks/ issues of delivery being/ going off track and/ or potential non-compliance.
• Collation, analysis and interpretation of information from project leads and other stakeholders to provide management information.
• Liaise with stakeholders and other project leads to manage appropriate resourcing, including specialist support needs.
• Producing clear, accurate mapping of current and future activities to support business change and ensure stakeholder engagement and buy-in.
• Actively contribute to the development of the team, sharing knowledge, mentoring, and learning to increase the effectiveness of the service.

Your profile:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, with a project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile etc) and evidence of continued professional development.
• Considerable experience of project management and support at all stages from initiation to project closure across projects of varying scale and complexity.
• Experience working in a service improvement, change management or organisational development role, preferably within a large multifaceted organisation.
• Experience of supporting large scale/complex projects with tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, trouble-shoot, and to meet short- and long-term deadlines.
• An understanding of effective financial management.
• Well-developed change management skills and the ability to manage cultural change, often in the face of resistance
• Able to analyse financial, numerical, and other information, to understand complex issues to identify actions required.
• Able to work effectively both as a team member and independently.

Office location – all roles are based at NGEC, Saltergate, Chesterfield, S40 1UT unless stated otherwise.

Please note – at this time EMCCA cannot offer sponsorship.

For more details on EMCCA, our rewards and benefits, please visit: https://eastmidscareers.co.uk

Closing date: 11th August 2025.