6 months contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

• The Programme / Project Manager will lead and coordinate the delivery of the NFGN Masterplan, ensuring all strands of work progress efficiently, strategically, and in line with agreed timeframes. The role will focus on programme oversight, viability assessment, procurement and delivery of the Integrated Framework, financial management, and preparing governance documentation. The postholder will engage closely with Members, stakeholders, and senior officers to support robust decision‑making and ensure successful long‑term delivery outcomes.
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• Lead and manage the full programme of work associated with the NFGN masterplan, ensuring successful delivery across all project streams.
  
• Coordinate project activities, monitor progress, and maintain effective programme controls.
  
• Conclude the viability review, ensuring Members understand all strategic, financial, and operational implications.
  
• Support decision‑making by shaping and recommending a preferred tenure mix based on evidence and analysis.
  
• Lead the procurement process for the Integrated Framework, ensuring compliance with relevant procurement rules.
  
• Oversee delivery of the framework, ensuring recommendations support long‑term solutions for resourcing, management, and operational delivery of the NFGN programme.
  

Essential Experience Required

• Significant experience in programme and project management, ideally within local government, planning, regeneration, or large‑scale capital programme environments.
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi‑disciplinary projects from inception to delivery.
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• Degree‑level education.
  
• PRINCE2 certification (Practitioner level preferred).
  
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem‑solving abilities.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear and concise briefing materials.
  

Additional information to note

• Working hours: 37 hours per week
  
• 3 days per week. Office attendance at least twice per month
  
• DBS Check required.
  
• The role is outside IR35
  
• Please mention your desired rate on your CV.
  
• We work on Bi weekly payment schedule
  

The role closes soon, apply ASAP.