OVERVIEW
This is a senior programme management role supporting a Programme Director in delivering a high-profile transformation initiative. The programme spans organisational, digital, and data-driven change, with a strong emphasis on operating model redesign and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will be pivotal in shaping and executing strategic change across multiple workstreams.
Programme Context
This role sits within a major transformation programme shaped by recent government spending re-views and legislative reform. Key initiatives include:
- Affordable Housing Scheme
- Affordable Housing Fund
- National Housing Delivery Fund
- Legislative transformation to support housing market reform
- Establishment of a National Housing Bank
All initiatives must be operational by 1 April next year, with a strong focus on embedding sustainable change in the following year.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Programme Leadership
- Partner with the Programme Director to oversee and coordinate complex programme delivery
- Lead and manage multiple workstreams with varied scopes and timelines
- Workstream Delivery
- Operating model design and implementation
- Organisational design including staffing, redeployment, retraining, and redundancy planning
- Development of technology strategy aligned with transformation goals
- Foundational data activities to support agile and structured working
- Oversight of the creation and deployment of a new data platform
- Transformation Execution
- Drive adoption of new operating models and transformation initiatives
- Embed automation, digitisation, and self-service capabilities
- Ensure effective deployment of programme funds and governance processes
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, including board-level executives
- Operate within a complex delivery ecosystem comprising permanent staff, contractors, con-tingent workers, and external suppliers
- Navigate public sector environments and policy frameworks with professionalism and strategic insight
SKILLS & QUAIFICATIONS
- Proven experience in operating model and transformation programme delivery
- Strong understanding of digital and data strategy within change programmes
- Demonstrable success in managing senior stakeholder relationships, ideally within public sector environments
- Ability to lead across multiple teams and suppliers in a complex delivery landscape
- A proactive, energetic, and solution-oriented mindset – someone who brings momentum and clarity to ambiguity.
- Public sector experience is highly desirable, particularly in TOM (Target Operating Model) delivery