Job Description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Healthcare client with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are currently recruiting for multiple Programme Managers on initial 3 month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate of £444.83/day inside of IR35 (based on experience). This role will be mostly remote with the occasional day onsite. This role is with an NHS organisation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and deliver the Business Plan as part of the overall organisational strategy.
• Define, design, develop and deliver strategic projects within the Plan, in order to deliver the objectives required by stakeholders driving the Organisation’s strategy. This will require a full organisational development plan to be constructed inc. effective training and the post holder selling the vision of the Programme’s goals at all stages to achieve the required benefits to the organisation.
• Manage and deliver complex programmes to ensure procedures and performance measures are in place and maintained to provide accurate performance metrics. Ensure progress is reviewed, and that adjustments are made, if necessary, to achieve the results as planned.
• Implement and maintain highest quality programme and project management standards, reports and processes to identify and manage cross-project dependencies, risks and constraints for strategic projects, escalate these risks and issues as required in order to ensure quality resolution and benefits delivery.
• Contribute and co-ordinate across a programme to develop and maintain a resource management process that enables the efficient deployment of people and resources to provide the optimum level of programme delivery effectiveness.
• The post holder will have the capability to develop and implement, when required, procedures and policies in relation to new business and system developments i.e. guidance and acceptable use policies, and will guide and influence the organization to ensure appropriate business and system development and implementation for the organisation contribute to delivering the Strategic Plans of the organization.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve an effective initiation and control mechanism for the creation, approval, delivery and post-implementation review of change programmes taking into account the need for effective programme governance.
• Develop, motivate and monitor staff within the programme, identify training needs and monitor staff development to ensure that individual and collective objectives are achieved and a beneficial workplace climate is sustained.
• Produce comprehensive and fully costed Business Cases incorporating benefits realisation metrics and present these to the funding authority to secure funding for the programme, which will deliver best value aligned to the customer’s corporate strategy.
• Develop and manage the plans, risks, programme team and resources (inc. third party contributions and other resources) in accordance with the defined scope to deliver outcomes to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget.
• Ensure that the organisation and staff are guided, supported and mentored through the process of change from any former operational environment to any new model or way of working, engaging and supporting the partnership forum as appropriate, to successfully embed change driving the business modernisation strategy.
• Ensure all programmes are delivered recognising MSP and projects are delivered recognising PRINCE2 disciplines to meet the requirements of the customer’s Standing Financial Instructions and associated regulatory requirements.
• To develop and maintain effective communication channels both within the department and across the organisation as a whole, in order to identify and share best principles approaches and standards.