Programme Director
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Programme Director for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of c.£800/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid working with at least three days per week in the Edinburgh office.
Responsibilities:
– Lead the successful delivery of the Programme for the organisation.
– Day to day management of the Business Improvement Programme and oversight of associated workstreams
– Preparing and controlling all Programme documentation and reporting, for Programme Board, Board and Board Scrutiny Group
– Provide advice, guidance and support to the Chief Executive and Executive Team in relation to the Programme
– Help to embed an increased focus on delivery and outcomes through the Project Management Office.
– Other matters as appropriate and necessary.
Essential Skills:
– An individual who has enjoyed a successful career to date at director level (10+yrs experience), possibly having worked in a number of different functions and different settings.
– Experienced in leading change and business improvement in a considered and people centric way.
– Providing leadership on organisational change in relation to People and culture.
– Able to flex between leading, doing and delivering (as a small organisation all colleagues need to be comfortable rolling up their sleeves and getting hands on).
– Able to form professional, respectful and supportive relationships with colleagues irrespective of seniority.
– Supporting the Chief Executive in ‘getting things done’ and ‘moving forward together’.
– Comfortable coaching and mentoring colleagues with less experience, adopting a collaborative and inclusive approach.
– Strong leadership behaviours
– Flexible mindset. Resilient.
– Degree qualified
– Chartered membership to a professional body associated with the business, change management, HR, law, IT or finance is beneficial.
– Experience of project work, working to tight deadlines, driving an outcome.
– Sounds understanding and professional expertise in relation to organisational change, People and culture.
Desirable Skills:
– AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
– Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
– Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
– OpenShift
– Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
– Data modelling and SQL development
– Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot and Spring MVC
– Spring security and OAuth2
– Template engines such as Thymeleaf
– Typescript
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Lead the successful delivery of the Programme for the organisation.
– Day to day management of the Business Improvement Programme and oversight of associated workstreams
– Preparing and controlling all Programme documentation and reporting, for Programme Board, Board and Board Scrutiny Group
– Provide advice, guidance and support to the Chief Executive and Executive Team in relation to the Programme
– Help to embed an increased focus on delivery and outcomes through the Project Management Office.
– Other matters as appropriate and necessary.
Essential Skills:
– An individual who has enjoyed a successful career to date at director level (10+yrs experience), possibly having worked in a number of different functions and different settings.
– Experienced in leading change and business improvement in a considered and people centric way.
– Providing leadership on organisational change in relation to People and culture.
– Able to flex between leading, doing and delivering (as a small organisation all colleagues need to be comfortable rolling up their sleeves and getting hands on).
– Able to form professional, respectful and supportive relationships with colleagues irrespective of seniority.
– Supporting the Chief Executive in ‘getting things done’ and ‘moving forward together’.
– Comfortable coaching and mentoring colleagues with less experience, adopting a collaborative and inclusive approach.
– Strong leadership behaviours
– Flexible mindset. Resilient.
– Degree qualified
– Chartered membership to a professional body associated with the business, change management, HR, law, IT or finance is beneficial.
– Experience of project work, working to tight deadlines, driving an outcome.
– Sounds understanding and professional expertise in relation to organisational change, People and culture.
Desirable Skills:
– AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
– Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
– Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
– OpenShift
– Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
– Data modelling and SQL development
– Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot and Spring MVC
– Spring security and OAuth2
– Template engines such as Thymeleaf
– Typescript
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
