Job Description
Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
Do you have a talent for stakeholder management?Can you make the decisions required to ensure successful delivery when needed? Do you have the mindset to lead our customers in ensuring compliance with best practice Programme Management?
We are looking for aProgramme Manager to join the Programme team.
We have a 12-month Fixed Term or secondment opportunity available.
What you'll do
The Programme team operate within Portfolio Management, ensuring the effective, efficient and resilient delivery of our services in Portfolio & Programme Intelligence, Programme Management, and Programme & Project Investment Governance & Assurance.
As our Programme Manager, you will have a key role in the regular review of a specific area of Capital Investment Programmes. Backed by evidence gathered from regular engagement with stakeholders across Scottish Water and our Delivery Vehicles, and data from our reporting, you will provide programme intelligence to senior stakeholders to help make the decisions needed to ensure effective, efficient and resilient delivery of our Programmes.
You'll need to be able to lead the recovery of Capital Investment Programmes when things don’t go to plan, agreeing the way forward while understanding the impact on investment, milestones and risk. Like our current Programme Managers, you’ll be a great communicator and problem solver.
The Programme Team have a strong focus on ‘doing our job, improving our job’. We want you to come in with fresh eyes and with feedback from our stakeholders across the business, to help continually build on the services we provide to our customers.
What you'll bring
You have a track record of managing stakeholders effectively. We engage with a variety of stakeholders from across the business and at all levels.
You will also have excellent communication skills: visually, verbally, and in writing. Programme Managers can be expected to present at and/or lead reviews in various forums to a wide variety of stakeholders.
You have an analytical mindset, and an ability to apply it to problem solving.You also have an eye for detail. There’s a real reputational risk if we don’t get things right, and our stakeholders won’t hesitate to challenge us.
You can talk about risk management, and you know how it’s applied within Project Management, as a minimum. You have good time management and prioritisation skills, the ability to juggle multiple tasks effectively.
Everything we do is underpinned by our best practice Capital Investment Framework. Ideally, you’re aware of this and would be able to lead others in ensuring compliance with this framework.
And now for the technical stuff. You are a wizard when it comes to MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. You also have experience of Unifier and Power BI. Being able to create reports is not a deal breaker, but we want you to be familiar with how to use it.
It’s not essential, but it helps if you have qualifications such as APM, MSP or MoP. If you’ve not been on these courses, we’ll add them to your development plan.
A full driving license is required.
Looking out for you
While the work we do is important, we know it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.
The normal working hours for this role are 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday. But you’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take paid time off to volunteer in your community.
When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave. And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working.
For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), as well as life assurance.
As for some nice extras? You can expect an annual company bonus. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.
The not-so-small print
This role will be a Grade 7. If you’re new to Scottish Water, you’ll join us on a starting salary of £41,000. Performance-driven pay progression would then allow you to move through the range to a maximum of £51,970.
Our working hours are Monday to Friday 9:00 – 17:00.
We welcome applications from all around Scotland, however, we may need you to travel to our office in Stepps, Glasgow or Fairmilehead, Edinburgh from time to time.
We have a 12-month Fixed Term or secondment opportunity available.
If you’re interested in this role – or know someone else who might be - we’ll be accepting applications untilmidnight on Sunday 30 June 2024.
A few final things worth knowing…
Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you’re interested in this job, but don’t tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don’t rule yourself out!
Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We're also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We’re very used to making adjustments, so please don’t be afraid to ask.
As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it’s important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don’t already live here, you'll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.
Finally (finally!), candidates who haven’t submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won’t need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.
Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
Working at Scottish Water you'll be making a real difference to the lives of the people and communities in Scotland who rely on the vital water and waste water services we provide. We offer a broad range of career opportunities and our approach to inclusion and diversity means we can make a real difference together.
Our people are essential to providing our customers with the very best service in communities around Scotland. We're passionate about attracting, developing and retaining the best people who can make a positive difference to our business.
If you are passionate about delivering a great customer service and can inspire trust and demonstrate pride in your work, we are confident that you will find Scottish Water a place where you can build on your talents and one where you can thrive.
If you would like to join our team at Scottish Water you can find out more about our latest vacancies here .
Recruitment Retention of Data
Please note that candidates who have not submitted an application in the last 12 months will be automatically removed from our system records
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