THE ROLE Job Title: Sustainability Programme Manager
stakeholders and networks, collaborating and influencing decisions on areas affecting the programme, identify and manage programme dependencies; work to identify priorities and jointly ensure that the most appropriate way is found for the priorities to be met. Engage with stakeholders to shape the programme. • Work with stakeholders, providing complex, conflicting, and technical information and ensuring technical information is understood and used to inform decisions. • Ensure stakeholder training is considered as part of programme planning and undertake all necessary stakeholder training. 4. Procurement and contract management • Undertake programme procurement activity. • Manage supplier contracts connected to the programme delivery. 5. Benefits, financial, RAID management and reporting • Facilitate the identification, tracking, governance and reporting on benefits. • Monitor the programme’s financial performance, understanding areas of overspend and driving project managers to deliver in line with budget. • Review escalated project risks and issues to define the key areas of exposure for the programme, taking corrective action as appropriate and escalating when needed. • Collate reports from Project Managers to build a consolidated view and report of programme progress for presentation at programme steering groups or committee meetings. To carry out any other duties that are within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed. This Job Description sets out current duties of the post that may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or level of responsibility entailed.
parties including the design of the programme and the appropriate approach to delivery. This will require the ability to undertake analysis with the ability to make complex decisions and obtain buy in of stakeholders. Responsible for ensuring appropriate risk assessments, method statements and programme management documentation, etc., is completed and subjected to the appropriate programme governance. • Own the overall integrity and coherence of the programme ensuring outcomes are aligned with the University’s strategic priorities and delivers value for money. 2. Programme Leadership and Management • Ensure programme is managed in line with institution’s programme management methodology. • Lead delivery of the programme and its outcomes, managing inter-project dependencies and phasing cross-project delivery into meaningful tranches that deliver measurable outcomes. • Monitor individual project performance and against plan; challenging slippage and help define and implement mitigations. • Coordinate project, service, and business readiness activities. • Work with the programme team and project office support colleagues, to deliver the programme blueprint, coaching and guiding as needed, breaking down barriers between teams to ensure successful delivery. Manage multi-disciplinary team members in a matrix environment. This will include induction, coaching, guidance, and training to programme team members to ensure the effective implementation of the programme. • Co-ordinate stakeholder engagement and communications across the programme to maximise benefits and ensure affected stakeholders are ready for change. 3. Stakeholder Engagement • Identify and build effective working relationships with internal and external
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Work with key stakeholders to design the programme, including vision, blueprint, benefits, scope, governance, resources, costs, and phase project delivery into meaningful tranches. Gain approvals for the programme through established governance routes. 2. Provide the day-to-day leadership and management of the programme, through all aspects of the life cycle, co-ordinating programme members, managing multi- disciplinary team members in a matrix environment and liaising closely with the business owners and programme sponsor. 3. Work with key stakeholders across the institution, manage the key communications and engagement plans for the programme, liaising with programme team members and internal and external stakeholders. 4. Proactively driving projects within the programme through the lifecycle stages, monitoring project interdependencies, progress against approved milestones and supporting project managers to unblock issues and maintaining the consensus and motivation of key stakeholders. 5. Oversee the integration of programme outcomes into business-as-usual ensuring business readiness activities and transition plans are in place to increase adoption and maximise programme benefits realisation.
Grade: G8
School/Division: Sussex Projects, IT Services
Position: Permanent
Location: Shawcross/ hybrid
Responsible to: Senior Programme Manager
Key contacts: Head of Sustainability Deputy Director of Estates Director of Finance Director of Strategic Projects and Change Sustainability Team Role description: Provide programme management expertise to the Sustainability Programme, ensuring Programme design, benefits realisation and the delivery of key Programme deliverables on time and budget.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Deliver and lead the programme lifecycle. • Manage all aspects of the programme lifecycle including Identify, design, plan, deliver capabilities, embed outcomes, evaluate, and close ensuring significant levels of stakeholder collaboration are maintained throughout. • Develop and implement rigorous planning and ensure it is delivered by appropriate
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