Estate Programme Manager
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,241 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The following locations have a London Weighting Allowance of £4,000: Hayes. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 434253/5 |
Summary
Do you have experience of delivering property projects or programmes?
Do you have budgeting and financial management experience?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.
The purpose of the Estates Programme Manager is to manage, oversee and implement Revenue and Capital works projects across the DVSA Estate (400+ properties).
The post holder will report directly to the Head of Property Investment and is one of three posts that manage a Portfolio across England, Scotland and Wales.
Your main duties will include, but not limited too:
- Managing the delivery of Estates Capital and Revenue Works Programmes ensuring 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 Develop and review Business Cases for submission to the Investment & Change Committee (ICC) or for Director approval (if below ICC threshold).
- Develop and produce dashboards for projects and programmes of work and provide project status reports for to inform Estates Delivery Board and Portfolio Management Group.
- Overseeing Financial and Resource management duties including:
- Management of workloads ensure efficient use of limited resources and allocation of staff to meet new works and other requirements.
- Ensure capital and revenue programme budgets and individual project/works budgets are managed and monitored with monthly forecasting.
- Provide and promote an ‘Intelligent Client’ lead to the team and to the Total Facilities Management Contractor and other Service/Contract Providers.
- Undertake Delegated Service Manager duties as defined by the NEC 3 Term Service Contract.
- Undertake Project Management duties as defined by the NEC 3 Engineering & Construction Contracts.
- Be responsible for decision making within own area of responsibility (within agreed delegations) relating to projects, works, finance, procurement and contract.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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