Programme Manager
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL1 1RU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75703669 |
Summary
Grade K £48,710 £52,805 Per annum.
Contract: 18 months fixed term contract, full time.
Role specifics Degree, or equivalent professional management qualification.
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The Role
Are you ready to lead transformation that makes a real difference?
Bolton Council is on the lookout for a dynamic, driven, and visionary Programme Manager to lead complex, high-impact programmes that shape the future of our borough.
This is your chance to be at the heart of change - delivering strategic programmes that improve lives, drive innovation, and ensure value for money across our services. You’ll be part of a small team of Programme Managers who are deployed across the council to help deliver our priorities.
Key components of the role include:
- Leading large-scale, cross-Council transformation programmes with confidence and clarity.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to align projects with our corporate priorities.
- Driving delivery through structured programme management methodologies.
- Providing expert advice to senior leaders and elected Members.
- Managing programme performance, risks, finances, and reporting with precision.
- Championing a customer-first approach to ensure services meet the needs of our residents and businesses.
About You
We’re looking for someone who has the experience, skills and knowledge to hit the ground running. You’ll need to be a strategic thinker, with a degree or relevant professional qualification and proven experience in programme or project management ideally within a public sector or complex organisational setting. You’ll need to bring strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, supported by knowledge of structured methodologies (e.g. PRINCE 2, ITIL) and planning tools. The successful candidate will bring a proactive, problem-solving mindset with a passion for making things better.
If this sounds like you, please submit your application by Sunday 8th June 2025, with your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the application criteria within the person specification. For a chat about the role, please contact Nicky Connell on 07392108213 during office hours (excluding 29 and 30th May).
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
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Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
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This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
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For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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