A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a Homelessness Programme Manager to join one of Adecco's leading local authority clients in an interim assignment for up to 12 months.
Working full time (35 hours each week, Monday to Friday) and hybridly (2-3 days each week from our client's office in West London), our client is seeking an experienced local authority Programme Manager. The ideal candidate would need to be quite 'hands-on' - getting involved in delivering some of the work across the Transformation and BAU programmes. For example, running workshops, determine metrics and working with our client's Resettlement Team to define the framework for the operation of the Resettlement Service and help the BAU Team to implement this.
The Programme Manager would need some background in homelessness, as well as a general background in local government and experience of programme/project management.
Ideally applicants will possess experience of:
- Running programmes and projects using MSP, Prince2 and Agile
- Putting together resourcing proposals and business cases
- Providing high quality programme board packs and highlighting reports for an executive audience, which identify where projects are succeeding, where they are not, and what decisions and actions are required to bring projects back on track
- Rapidly familiarising themselves with new technical areas
- Drilling down into the detail of project delivery to troubleshoot issues and establish effective remedial plans
- Successfully influencing stakeholders at different levels of seniority outside of own reporting line
- Driving programmes forward at pace whilst maintaining budgetary control
- Realising programme and project benefits and evidencing this
It is essential for candidates to have experience of working in Homelessness, as they will be required to manage up to two programmes in parallel across these areas, but their expertise in Programme & Project Management is as important as service area knowledge.
Only applicants who feel they meet the above criteria and can work from our client's West London office 2-3 days each week need apply, as the client is keen to move quickly in filling this post (1-4 weeks' notice period, maximum). In return, our client is willing to pay up to £500-600 a day (Umbrella) for the right candidate.