Estates Programme Manager - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,241.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44.241 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 January 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, Bristol, Hayes, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea , BS1 1BN |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4754891_1765451620 |
Summary
Your new company
Do you have experience working within an Estates environment, delivering property projects or programmes?
Do you have budgeting and financial management experience?
An opportunity has arisen to join The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency as a Programme Manager, playing a pivotal role in overseeing and implementing capital works projects across the DVSA estate of over 400 properties in England, Scotland, and Wales.
As a Programme Manager in this position, your work will help to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of data and technology
- Grow and level up the economy
Your new role
The DVSA are looking for an Estates Programme Manager to lead the delivery of small to medium-sized property projects across the estate. You will support the Head of Property Investment to ensure that the estate is efficient, effective, and sustainable, managing projects from initial brief through to handover whilst working closely with internal teams, landlords, planning authorities, and external service providers.
- Managing the delivery of estate capital works programmes, ensuring that projects are delivered within agreed timeframes, budgets, and compliance with corporate programme and project management principles, procedures, and processes.
- Identify and implement maintenance solutions which are affordable, realistic, and meet operational needs whilst minimising impact on operational service delivery, reviewing business case submissions for the investment and change committee.
- Develop and produce dashboards for projects and programmes of work and provide project status reports for the project delivery board.
- Oversee financial and resource management duties, including management of workloads and monthly forecasting.
- Undertake project management duties as defined by the NEC3 construction contract.
What you'll need to succeed
- Experience of working in an estate environment.
- Delivering property and project programmes.
- Experience of risk management, stakeholder, and change management.
- Experience in developing business cases.
- Budget and financial management experience.
- Experience of applying the NEC3 form of contract.
What you'll get in return
- Part-time working options are available in this role, however there is a business requirement for a minimum of 20 hours worked per-week.
- Hybrid working arrangements, a combination of workplace and home-working can be accommodated in this role.
- Employer pension contribution of 28.92% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave.
- Access to a staff discount portal.
- Flexible working options to encourage a great work-life balance.
- Salary of £44,241 (+ London Weighting if you are located within proximity of Hayes).
You could be located within the proximity of Birmingham, Bristol, Hayes, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oldham or Swansea in this role.
What you need to do now
The selection process for this role will ensure a comprehensive assessment of your skills and potential fit with the DVSA. Upon application via Hays, you will be asked to prepare a personal statement which will be sifted fairly alongside your CV.
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