Assistant Programme Manager – Office for National Statistics (Visa Sponsorship)

Responsibilities

• Develops and secures approval for the business case in collaboration with project leads and subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Identifies and manages stakeholder relationships, highlighting the need for senior-level support. Appropriately manages internal and external relationships.
• Provides direction and guidance on development to the team.
• Secures resources and direct planning, scheduling, resourcing, and estimating for complex and large-scale programmes.
• Oversees risk and issue management, ensures mitigations are in place and resolved through negotiated agreements.
• Ensures customer benefits are realised by planning and designing outputs that meet programme requirements.
• Maintains the overall integrity and coherence of the programme and governance frameworks to support each project. Plans programme assurance activities.
• Communicates the vision and translates it into delivery objectives for the team. Leads the programme to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Works with project leads and the business to ensure dependencies are actively managed. Acts as an arbiter and enforcer, resolving issues between various programme elements.
• Uses digital tools to analyse data to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and improve efficiency. Uses data insights to make high level decisions to ensure programmes stay on track and deliver outcomes.

Essential Skills Criteria:

1. Experience of successfully leading a complex programme planning function for a major programme, including leading others in both waterfall and agile delivery methods and managing dependencies and change. (Lead)
2. Experience of working collaboratively with a diverse range of policy, design, architecture, operational and IT delivery teams to refine, develop and assure delivery plans and resolve complex problems.
3. Ability to lead and facilitate complex negotiations whilst maintaining relationships, accommodating differing views and priorities, and influencing peers and senior leaders to achieve an outcome.
4. Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with an ability to influence constructively and command confidence at all levels. with experience and evidence of providing insightful reporting and clear briefing on complex issues to senior stakeholders.
5. Portfolio planning, including maintaining an integrated portfolio delivery map, identifying and managing interdependencies, and ensuring plans remain aligned to strategic priorities while responding effectively to change, uncertainty, and competing demands.
6. Inspiring, motivating and leading people, providing clear direction where uncertainty exists, role modelling the appropriate behaviours and challenging inappropriate behaviour.

Desirable Qualifications

Any of the following qualifications would be advantageous for the role, but we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate equivalent experience or capability:

• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Agile Project Management Practitioner
• APM Project Management Qualification
• APM Practitioner Qualification

We encourage applicants who have relevant experience, transferable skills, or are working towards these qualifications.

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