Role: Senior Technical Programme Manager

Location: Hybrid - Oxford or Hampshire base plus travel to regional sites as required and home working.

Salary: £68,632 + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 17.5% Pension, 30 days annual leave and a wide range of travel and shopping discounts)

Key Skills: Technical Programme management, broad technical projects delivery background,

Role purpose: This is a key role in a high-profile setting, ensuring that large and complex IT programmes are well managed and controlled, making efficient use of resources and maximising delivery of business benefits

The role in summary:

• Accountable for the development and maintenance of the Technical Programmes delivery, communicating across the Senior Leadership Team to ensure efficient use of resources and maximising delivery of business benefits
• Work with IT Heads to ensure that all programmes/projects are secure and can be operated, managed and supported in a cost-effective manner and deliver desired outcomes, (timescales, costs, quality and enabling benefits)
• Efficient budget management of assigned programmes
• Effective risks and issues management as well as document production.
• Supervise Programme Management and Project Staff, providing leadership and direction. Mentoring Technical Programme Managers.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• SME in ICT Programme Management with experience of managing complex, high-risk programmes, with budget management of £3m+
• Able to evidence experience of working at Senior ICT Programme Management in similar complex ICT projects environment using a recognised approach such as PRINCE 2. Able to demonstrate proficiency in all of the following areas:

Budgets management

Programme Management principles

Resource allocation

Project Risk management

Broad ICT understanding across IT Architecture, Networks, Cloud Technologies and Infrastructures etc.

• PRINCE 2 Practitioner, MSP qualified or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven man management skills in a matrix structure
• Experience in delivering services that are cost-effective
• Ability to travel to sites across wide geographical region in the South West as required. Full UK driving license essential.

• ** You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role **