Vacancy: Programme Manager

We are recruiting for a highly skilled, experienced and specialised change professional, who will be working with senior stakeholders to design and deliver strategic change projects, as well as ensuring all components of the complex change programmes are aligned and are being implemented at the required scale and pace.
 

Key responsibilities:

• At a project level, partner with senior stakeholders and business owners, providing a specialised blend of business change tools, techniques, knowledge and skills, ensuring that projects are designed and delivered as required, on time and within budget.
• Lead, motivate and influence cross-functional project teams and work closely with business owners to develop ideas, business cases, feasibility studies and vendor selections.
• Create and maintain appropriate programme plans and documentation that effectively manages the interdependencies between the individual projects and ensures programme delivery in full, on time and within budget.
• Manage programme budgets, resource plans, risk management documentation and other associated controls to ensure the programme remains aligned and delivering at the scale and pace required.
• Identify and solve programme issues, mediating disputes where required and demonstrating leadership and decision making.
• Work directly with suppliers and partners (and their respective project managers) to design, co-ordinate and implement solutions.  
• Facilitate and encourage integrated working, promoting a one team approach to drive accountability and ownership across the organisation;

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

No recruitment agencies please.

How to apply: Please apply by submitting your CV to careers@bcs.uk along with a cover note answering the following questions:

(a) Your area(s) of expertise & qualifications;

(b) Your experience and suitability for the role

We look forward to hearing from you!

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