Programme Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £66,832 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Leeds - £66,832, London - £70,831 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 350483/1 |
Summary
The Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) Directorate is a new directorate that sits within the Chief Scientific Advisor Group. This new function is responsible for setting the approach to and direction and ambition of all data related services, platforms and projects within DHSC.
It will deliver corporate and ministerial data services, lead cross-Whitehall data relationships, drive improvements and innovations in the department’s use of data and develop, define and promote the department’s role and purpose with respect to data across the Department of Health and Social Care and its Executive Agencies (EAs).
CDO is responsible for the Migration of OHID Products (MOP) Programme a highly complex transformational programme of work to transition analytical products, systems and processes on to new infrastructure and support systems.
This programme of work is a mix of migration, transition, consolidation, adaption and transformation of existing data and digital products systems and processes. We intend to both ‘move and improve' the systems and processes that support our health intelligence and analysis provision.
We are recruiting to the post of Programme Delivery Manager. The post holder will lead the delivery of the MOP programme, providing overall direction to the work, managing stakeholders, procuring relevant external resource, managing budgets and delivery and liaising with other relevant bodies, in particular NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency.
This role is critical in the delivery of the Migration of OHID Products (MOP), an essential programme of work to move and improve the Department's data and analytical products and processes, making them fit for the modern data and digital age. This programme is a significant piece of work in the CDO Portfolio.
As Programme Delivery Manager,
- You will be an excellent communicator, able to explain complex ideas to a range of audiences and maintain stakeholder engagement across diverse groups.
- You will have a strong record of project and programme delivery using different methodologies such as scaled lean/agile and be able to manage others (both via line management and within more informal teams) to plan and deliver complex programmes of work with a focus on technology and digital transformation.
- You will show strong initiative and resilience and be someone who enjoys generating their own ideas and plans before gaining senior support for them.
- You will be experienced in budget management, procurement and in the management of contractors in a digital and technology transformation context. You will be able to make good judgements on value for money and the successful integration of contracted resource with established in house teams.
- You will be proactive in identifying and resolving problems, working with key stakeholders to engage them in generating and implementing solutions. You will have the ability to bring together a diverse range of views across teams, the department and other organisations to come to an agreed solution and navigate and overcome barriers to success.
- You will be excellent at developing strategic approaches to complex problems, good in particular at situated technical challenges in the context of broader institutional and political context. You will have the confidence and flexibility to examine, question and constructively challenge and critique a range of proposed solutions and approaches whilst maintaining momentum and direction for CDO related projects.