Senior Transformation Programme Manager

at  Independent Office for Police Conduct

Job Introduction
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.

REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS

The IOPC is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. We are open to providing you with the tools you need to succeed. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, please see potential reasonable adjustments below that we can provide:

• Extra time for presentations or interview questions
• Formatting changes such as colours for text or background on written assignments
• Questions presented in writing during interviews

If you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@policeconduct.gov.uk
About The Company
As a completely independent organisation, the IOPC seeks to uphold the rights of the public and investigate the most serious matters, including deaths following police contact, to promote learning and influence change in policing. The IOPC is an organisation steeped in history, influenced by significant figures such as Stephen Lawrence and Sir William Macpherson. We are looking for people to uphold our core values, and in return we will give you a supportive and inclusive work environment to flourish in.

BE YOURSELF

The IOPC is committed to promoting equality and valuing diversity in everything we do. Our vision is to be, and to be seen as, a leader in inclusive employment and services, demonstrating this ethos in everything that we do.

• As a silver standard Stonewall employer, we continue to commit to being a LGBTQ+ employer through the work of our Pride LGBTQ+ Staff Network, creating welcoming environments for lesbian, gay, bi and queer people.
• We are pleased to share that we are a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. The Charter is composed of five calls to action for leaders and organisations across all sectors.
• Being a Disability Confident employer, the IOPC is dedicated to removing the barriers for disabled people to thrive in the workplace.
• Our Staff Networks are constantly working to make the IOPC the leaders of inclusive employment, from our Allyship Programme to Welsh Language Standards and our Know the Line Policy, we are constantly seeking new ways to create an environment for all to develop and thrive.

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