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Job Title: SC Cleared Programme Lead
Location: Belfast/Customer site
Duration: Six months initial, with potential for extension
Rate: Up to £950 per day via an approved umbrella company
Must hold active SC clearance or previously held
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Programme Lead to join a major public sector transformation programme within Land & Property Services (LPS).
The programme is a significant multi-year transformation initiative designed to modernise land registration services, improve operational efficiency, enhance customer experience, and deliver a digital first operating model. Comprising multiple interdependent workstreams and delivery partners, this programme requires exceptional leadership, governance, and delivery expertise to ensure successful outcomes.
This role will suit a proven programme leader with extensive experience delivering large-scale business and technology transformations within complex stakeholder environments, particularly across the public sector.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Leadership
- Lead the overall transformation programme.
- Develop and maintain the integrated programme delivery strategy.
- Establish programme vision, objectives, and success criteria.
- Ensure delivery aligns with contractual and business requirements.
- Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Governance & Assurance
- Establish and operate Programme Board governance.
- Chair delivery governance forums as required.
- Ensure compliance with programme assurance and governance requirements.
- Provide independent assessment of programme health, risks, and readiness.
- Manage escalations and executive decision-making processes.
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Planning, Controls & Delivery
- Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule.
- Manage critical path activities and dependencies.
- Ensure effective resource planning and forecasting.
- Monitor delivery progress against baseline plans.
- Drive corrective action where required.
Financial & Commercial Management
- Maintain financial oversight of programme delivery.
- Monitor budgets, forecasts, actual costs, and contingencies.
- Assess financial impacts of scope changes.
- Support commercial governance and contractual reporting.
Risk & Issue Management
- Own programme RAID management.
- Ensure proactive management of programme risks and dependencies.
- Escalate strategic issues appropriately.
- Drive mitigation and resolution activities.
Stakeholder & Supplier Engagement
Build Effective Relationships With
- LPS Executive Team
- Department of Finance stakeholders
- Programme Board members
- Delivery Partners
- External Suppliers
You will manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate collaboration across organisations, and ensure successful programme delivery through effective engagement and communication.
Benefits Realisation & Operational Readiness
- Define and track programme success measures.
- Ensure outcomes remain aligned to business case objectives.
- Coordinate readiness assessments.
- Support business change and adoption activities.
- Oversee successful transition into live service.
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Essential Experience
- Minimum 10 years' programme leadership experience.
- Delivery of complex transformation programmes exceeding £20m.
- Public Sector delivery experience.
- Multi-supplier delivery management.
- Experience leading programmes across both business and technology domains.
- Strong governance and assurance expertise.
- Experience managing senior executive stakeholders.
- Budget and commercial management experience.
- Proven delivery of large-scale business transformation programmes.
Desirable Experience
- Land Registry or Property Services experience.
- Northern Ireland Public Sector experience.
- Government transformation programmes.
- Data migration and digital modernisation programmes.
- Cloud and SaaS implementation programmes.
Qualifications
Ideally, candidates will hold:
- MSP Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Agile Practitioner (preferred)
- P3M3 Awareness (preferred)
- Management of Risk (MoR) (desirable)
This is a rare opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in a high-profile public sector transformation programme that will have a lasting impact on the future of land and property services across Northern Ireland.
If you have a proven track record leading complex transformation programmes, driving stakeholder engagement at executive level, and delivering successful outcomes in challenging environments, we would like to hear from you.
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