Programme Lead

Westfield Secondary School; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is recruiting for a Programme Lead - Housing Service to drive a multi-year transformation across Housing Strategy and Regulation, delivering safer, better maintained homes and improved tenant experiences.

You will coordinate cross-functional delivery, strengthen compliance, track benefits and manage governance while championing resident insight and evidence-based decision making in line with regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading complex change and improvement programmes at pace.
• Excellent programme and project management capability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-year improvement programmes across Housing; drive transformation.
• Govern programme delivery, monitor benefits, and manage risks.
• Champion evidence-based decision making and resident insight to meet regulatory expectations.

Skills

Programme leadership

PM capability

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Collaborative leadership

Job description

Be part of our city’s growth and transformation Sheffield City Council is one of the UK’s largest and most dynamic social landlords, responsible for nearly 40,000 tenanted and leasehold homes. Our Housing & Neighbourhoods Service playsa central role in shaping thriving communities and delivering our ambitious new Housing Strategy.

Weare now recruiting for a Programme Lead - Housing Service to join the Housing Strategy & Regulation service. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real and lasting difference to residents across Sheffield.

About The Role

Sheffield’s Housing Service is embarking on an ambitious, transformation programme to realise our Future Housing Ambition - a commitment to delivering high performing, connected and financially sustainable services that provide safe, well maintained homes, compassionate customer experiences, and strong partnerships with communities and multi-agencies.

As Programme Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving this change. You will lead complex, multi‑year improvement programmes that modernise how we work, strengthen compliance, and embed a new sustainable operating model across Housing. This includes coordinating cross functional delivery, enabling cultural and behavioural change, and ensuring improvement activity is sequenced and delivered effectively.

Your work will directly contribute to performance, deliver efficiencies, and improving service quality for tenants and residents. You will manage programme governance, track benefits, mitigate risks, and champion evidence-based decision making rooted in resident insight, performance intelligence and regulatory expectations.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, forward thinking programme leader who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about public service improvement.

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking an inspirational, forward-thinking leader who can demonstrate:

• Proven track record of leading complex change and improvement programmes at pace
• Strong programme and project management capability
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Highly developed communication and stakeholder skills
• Good understanding of statutory, regulatory and assurance frameworks
• Collaborative, people centred leadership style

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full‑time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under‑represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.