Senior Transformation Programme Manager

at  Independent Office for Police Conduct

JOB SUMMARY

The purpose of this senior leadership role is to lead delivery of the IOPC Transformation programme. The post holder will have primary responsibility for successful delivery of the required outcomes of the programme, including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change.
The Senior Transformation Programme (STP) Manager will lead and manage the day-to-day running of the programme, maintain oversight of the programme to ensure delivery is on track, monitoring progress, controlling investment, helping to identify and deal with issues, providing reports and managing resourcing.
The STP Manager should work effectively and collaboratively with others across the organisation, understanding their pressures and challenges, aligning priorities in order to deliver programme objectives. They will also need to develop streamlined structures and processes that are clear, focused, and easily understood to optimise clarity of accountability and supports effective delivery.
The STP Manager will need to develop a clear programme narrative, including a benefits case that can be shared with external stakeholders and staff as well as develop and implement an approach to managing transformation and effective engagement across the IOPC.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Delivery: A high degree of personal resilience, tenacity and focus on outcomes. Able to navigate often complex and demanding regulatory, commercial and political landscapes, all the time maintaining a dynamism with a focus on achieving measurable and impactful results delivering excellent customer value. Able to contribute strategically across IOPC as part of the corporate leadership network as well as deliver vertically on functional objectives.
• A Project Delivery Professional – substantial senior level programme and project management experience in major change or transformation programmes.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a portfolio of projects from start to finish.
• Delivering within a structured environment and capable of deriving innovative and creative solutions to problems.
• Successfully leading a virtual ‘team’ from across functional or organisational boundaries to deliver high quality outputs.
• Experience of substantial stakeholder management in a complex organisational environment.
• Be someone who effectively plans, prioritises, and manages the delivery of complex projects or activities to achieve long-term strategic objectives.
• An experienced change leader, capable of creating and delivering strategic plans, coordinating and meeting demands from multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of managing teams with an ability to motivate and lead a team effectively, setting clear objectives to manage performance and strategic direction.
• Strong leadership style, with self-awareness and the ability to influence, motivate and lead effectively across an organisation with a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Demonstrable commitment to learning and using established project management methodologies to enable successful delivery.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Delivered programmes within a regulatory or public sector environment.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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