The Organisation

Russam is working with a major national charity who are undertaking a fundamental transformation of their services.

Role & Responsibilities

To facilitate this they are seeking to appoint an Interim Senior Programme Manager to manage the scoping, planning and delivery of this major transformational change programme - managing senior stakeholder engagement, overseeing the workstreams to hold them and other business leads to account for delivery and to align with the broader change programme.

The Desired Applicant

You will have:

• Experience of running similar service design and change transformation programmes
• Experience of drafting commissioning documents and presentations
• Experience of having to lead creative thinking
• Experience of working and communicating at a strategic level with key stakeholders in order to build successful relationships and navigate top level politics, with evidence of managing by influence to achieve successful outcomes to complex business problems and proven experience of ensuring that projects remain viable and aligned to scope and strategy
• Experience of establishing strong governance structures and good reporting lines
• Experience of running projects for multiple business functions
• Extensive experience of stakeholder management, identifying, addressing and resolving differences between individuals and/or interest groups
• Experience of using project management tools to manage development activity
• Extensive experience creating Gantt charts, including resource levelling, dependency chains and critical paths
• Experience in controlling, reconciling and reporting on projects
• Experience of analysing complex data to produce useful management information
• Experience of using work packages

This will be a 24-month fixed term contract c£60-70k per annum with hybrid working-London office & home.

How to Apply

All interested applicants should log in / register and upload a current CV in Word format. No other documents are required at this stage.