Job Title: Transformation Strategic Programme Manager
Location: Walsall
Salary: £50,984 – £55,924 per annum
Job Type: Full Time, 2 year fixed term contract
Closing date: 25th April 2022
Walsall Council is committed to providing excellent customer services. We have been on an exciting transformation journey since 2019 to holistically transform the organisation. This is our Proud journey of change. We have three Proud Promises – to improve customer satisfaction, to support and empower our staff with the right tools and training and to realise efficiencies through new ways of working and digital opportunities.
One of our key areas of focus over the next 2 years will be the Adults Social Care transformation. We will deliver an ambitious programme of continuous improvement, embedding strengths based practice across our teams, applying digital technologies to support a single front door for customers to access advice, signposting and services, exploit assistive technologies in residents’ homes and streamline our internal systems and processes.
The Role:
As Transformation Strategic Programme Manager within the Walsall Proud Programme Team, your responsibilities will include:
- As a senior member of the Transformation and Change Team (Corporate PMO) you will work closely with the Executive Director for Adult Social Care as executive sponsor
- You will lead the Continuous Improvement Programme, manage the governance around the Programme and coordinate and manage the resources
- Working with key stakeholders to design, develop and deliver significant programmes of change
- Championing best practice and industry standard programme, project and change management frameworks to successfully deliver change
The Candidates:
We are looking for a talented and experienced programme manager with experience of leading cross cutting change programmes, particularly with experience in the social care arena. You will be an excellent leader and communicator, able to bring together multi-disciplinary stakeholders to design and deliver new ways of working in a timely and effective manner.
You must have experience of developing organisational capability and capacity through change along with a track record of successful delivery of a sizeable organisational change programme, preferably with social care. It is essential that you have good analytical, conceptual and financial analysis skills.
To apply you must be educated to degree level and hold a recognised programme or project management qualification.
This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.
Please click on the APPLY button to complete your application on the council’s careers page.
Candidates with experience of: Strategic Programme Manager, Programme Manager, Government Project Manager, Public Sector Programme Management, Technical Change Manager, Technology Transformation Manager, Public Sector Services Manager, Technical Transformation Manager, Implementation Manager, Technical Project Lead, Transformation Manager, Business Transformation Manager, Business Projects Manager, Public Sector Project Management, Local Council Project Manager, Council Project Officer may also be considered for this role.
