Programme Manager

We require a Programme Manager to work with the Transport Advisor to manage the programme as it develops by:

•Programme Manager Setting up, developing and overseeing working groups on a range of technical and functional subjects, as well as a Programme Board involving senior leaders. A likely structure for these groups is set out below.

•Programme Manager Preparing a programme plan and assisting in the development of a Heads of Terms agreement with the partner authorities.

• Developing and maintaining a detailed project programme that identifies detailed tasks, timescales for completion and important dependencies.

The programme will be developed in conjunction with the working groups to be set up. This programme will be used to drive progress and report on risks associated with late delivery.

This interim role provides immediate specialist capacity, delivery confidence, and experienced leadership to successfully manage a critical transformation agenda while strengthening broader organisational programme management capability.

The role will provide senior interim leadership to oversee the mobilisation, governance, and delivery of a complex, high-profile transformation programme, while also supporting wider strategic transformation and change initiatives across the broader organisational portfolio.

Core Scope of Work

1. Programme Mobilisation and Delivery Oversight

• Lead end-to-end programme and project management for a significant organisational transformation initiative.

• Establish and embed programme governance structures, reporting frameworks, and assurance processes.

• Develop and maintain integrated programme plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths.

• Coordinate multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment across operational, commercial, legal, HR, finance, and service areas.

• Ensure effective transition from design into implementation and operational readiness.

Essential Programme Manager

• Significant senior-level programme or project management experience delivering complex transformation programmes.

• Proven track record overseeing large-scale service redesign, mobilisation, or insourcing/outsourcing transitions.

• Experience operating within politically sensitive, multi-stakeholder, or public sector environments.

• Strong understanding of governance, assurance, risk, and programme controls.

• Demonstrable experience coordinating large, cross-functional workstreams.

• Experience managing ambiguity, pace, and competing priorities. • Strong commercial, operational, and organisational change awareness.