Senior Programme Delivery Manager

The Health Informatics team has specialist skills in delivering programmes of work that include providing secure environments for storing and accessing health and other sensitive data to support health and care delivery, research, and innovation. Within the team we have both an Operations and Technical function.

This role is part of the Programme Management Office (PMO) within the Operations function. The post holder will take responsibility for project managing multiple parallel projects within our portfolio, devising robust project plans with input from subject matter experts and ensuring their successful delivery throughout the project life cycle. They will drive working groups and meetings to facilitate identification of risks, interdependencies, and critical paths, and develop relevant mitigation plans alongside the PMO Lead. The post will also involve working to build strong and meaningful relationships with key external stakeholders and have the ability to recognise and work to address the articulated and unarticulated needs of stakeholders, taking a holistic perspective when approaching challenges and decision-making.

The post holder will work alongside the PMO Lead to implement continuous improvement processes within the PMO and will support more junior team members to develop within their roles, providing training, guidance and coaching as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Given the range of our work, the post will involve working on a number of projects simultaneously, taking responsibility for delivery. The post-holder will:

Show adaptability to different types of work.

Take a flexible approach, recognising that projects, activities and tasks will be highly varied.

Demonstrate an aptitude for learning about new areas quickly.

Write reports to a high standard, adapted to communicate effectively for difference audiences.

Engage with project stakeholders and demonstrate an ability to build excellent working relationships.

Work closely with subject matter experts to establish robust delivery plans.

Take accountability for tracking progress throughout the project lifecycle.

Produce project initiation documents and project close reports, including identification of opportunities for learning and improvement.

Lead working groups and meetings to track progress, facilitate identification of interdependencies and risks, developing relevant mitigation plans alongside the PMO Lead.

Work to build strong and meaningful relationships with key external stakeholders.

Recognise and work to address the articulated and unarticulated needs of stakeholders.

Produce regular project updates for internal, regional, and national/funder reports.

Effective communication of project progress during meetings and across the organisation.

Health Innovation East helps the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they bring most benefit.

We are a team of clinicians, data scientists, life sciences industry experts and skilled programme leaders passionate about helping the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they bring most benefit. Whether working with global companies, pioneering start-ups, leading universities or regional health providers, we never lose sight of the patients and communities we serve.

As the regional innovation arm of the NHS our collective skill set is valued by the NHS and industry to implement the advances being made across health and care.

Health Innovation East is fully committed to being an inclusive employer, affording equity of opportunity and welcoming applicants from broad and diverse backgrounds.

Our values focus on providing trusted expertise, being inclusive, kind and collaborative in all our working relationships and implementing innovations that truly matter to our communities and partners.

As part of the benefits package, employees receive:

27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata),

a company pension (employer contribution up to 10% of annual salary),

life insurance (on completion of a probationary period),

cycle to work scheme

externally provided well-being programme