Programme Manager - Manchester, United Kingdom - AQA and AQA Affiliates

AQA and AQA Affiliates

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Manchester, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Programme Manager

Permanent

Salary

Manchester / Milton Keynes:
£64,000 - £70,000 per year

Hybrid working
Enjoy inspiring others and leading through change?

Want to be at the forefront of shaping the future of the education assessment industry?

Want to join a forward thinking and supportive company?

You're a people focused leader with a proven track record of successful multi-million pound project and programme management delivery.

You know what good looks like, you're keen to share your knowledge and you're ready for your next career adventure.

Drawing from your portfolio of experience, you'll manage business change which will include technology, people and process elements. You'll use your expertise to establish best practices and build supported, high performing programme teams.

Personable and articulate, you'll interface effectively at a strategic level with senior stakeholders. You'll put your outcomes focused approach to good use, introducing programme disciplines and working collaboratively with the technology partner.

Whether from a consultancy or in-house background, you'll be the type of person who has an innate desire for continuous improvement, pro-actively business partnering and seeking to understand the changing needs of the business.

You'll see the bigger picture and relish finding the most effective and efficient solutions whilst mitigating risk.

AQA are on an ambitious journey and as a Programme Manager you will be crucial to the organisation continuing to deliver it's charitable purpose of enabling millions of students to reach their potential every year.

You'll need:

To role model great leadership and embody the AQA values
Excellent engagement and communication skills across all levels of the business
A deep understanding of project and programme delivery and a track record of successfully directing mediumlarge, high risk programmes and projects, in a difficult regulated environment
To build trustworthy supplier relationships
A logical and structured mindset to untangle complex and ambiguous scenarios, problems, and information

Benefits
At AQA we recognise our employees' contribution and in return we are proud to offer an extensive reward and benefit package including:

25 days' annual leave rising to 30 days, plus all Bank Holidays and additional Christmas leave
35 hour working week
Excellent contributory pension (6% 11.5% dependent on employee contribution)
Private Medical Insurance & Health Cash Plan
Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme offering support with counselling, legal advice and money matters
Access to Learning space, a modern Learning Management System, providing an environment for selfdirected learning from high quality elearning content
Cycle to work scheme
Interest free travel loans

How to apply
Please upload your CV and covering letter via our AQA job portal.

AQA is committed to the safeguarding of children and adults at risk.

We're dedicated to reducing the risk of employing or contracting any person intent on abusing their position of trust, along with identifying and responding to any incident of alleged abuse from its employees or associates fairly and swiftly.

For more information on safeguarding at AQA please visit the AQA website.