Description
We are seeking 3 Programme Delivery Managers to work on the Defence Housing Service (DHS) programme, a £9.2 billion investment to modernise tens of thousands of homes for the UK's Armed Forces and their families.
As a Programme Delivery Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of complex programmes, projects, and improvement initiatives, ensuring they achieve intended outcomes and deliver measurable benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the successful delivery of programmes, projects, and priority workstreams from initiation through to implementation, benefits realisation, and closure.
- Translate strategic priorities and business objectives into clear delivery plans, milestones, outcomes, and measurable benefits.
- Manage programme and project delivery against agreed scope, timelines, quality standards, and outcomes, taking corrective action where required.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum and remove barriers to progress.
- Develop and maintain key delivery documentation, including business cases, plans, risk registers, dependency logs, and benefits tracking.
- Maintain oversight of programme, project, and change activity across the portfolio, ensuring accurate reporting on progress, risks, and performance.
- Provide senior leaders with timely portfolio insights, performance updates, and evidence-based recommendations to support decision-making.
- Identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints that could impact successful delivery.
- Design and maintain effective governance and assurance arrangements that support robust oversight and control of delivery activity.
- Prepare and present high-quality information, reporting, and briefing materials for governance boards and senior leadership forums.
- Provide guidance, challenge, and support to programme and project teams, promoting consistent delivery standards and best practice.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, delivery partners, and suppliers to enable coordinated delivery.
- Engage with senior stakeholders to resolve competing priorities, secure decisions, and ensure alignment with organisational objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, promoting innovation, and embedding effective portfolio, programme, and project management practices.
- Support the successful transition of new policies, services, and improvements into operational delivery, ensuring readiness and sustainable outcomes.
Person specification:
- Significant experience leading complex programmes, projects, or business change initiatives from inception through to implementation, ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes and measurable benefits.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience building productive relationships and securing commitment from senior leaders, multidisciplinary teams, delivery partners, and external organisations.
- Proven ability to translate strategic priorities, policy objectives, or organisational requirements into structured delivery plans, milestones, and achievable outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience operating within, or leading, programme, project, or portfolio management functions, providing effective oversight across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Strong experience of establishing and maintaining governance, reporting, and assurance frameworks that support effective decision-making, accountability, and delivery confidence.
- Proven ability to identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges within complex organisational environments.
Benefits:
- Salary of £61,630 per year
- 25 days' annual leave plus one day a year up to 30 days after five years, and eight bank holidays
- An extra day off to honour the sovereign's birthday
- Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible to support your work-life balance
- Market-leading employer pension contribution of around 28.97%
- Enhanced parental leave schemes
- Recognition awards
- Access to specialist training and funded professional qualifications
- Support for progression