Head of Major Projects - United Kingdom - Be Applied Ltd

Description

Head of Major Projects - INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY

Historic England

Employment Type Full time Fixed-Term-Contract December 31st 2024

Location Hybrid ·United Kingdom(multiple locations) Cambridge · Portsmouth · Bristol · Swindon · Birmingham · Manchester · York · Newcastle National - We offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home

Salary Band A

Team Business Improvement - Programmes Team

Seniority Senior

• Closing: 11:59pm, 27th May 2024 BST

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Team lunches

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness

Job Description

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Head of Major Projects.

This fast-paced role sits in the Programmes Department, which has responsibility for managing major programmes and projects of organisationally significant areas of work. Programmes sits in the Business Improvement Group – a dynamic part of Historic England that ensures HE is an adaptable, fundable and sustainable organisation that delivers for heritage by facilitating joined up working, inspiring, challenging and equipping people, nurturing innovation and productivity, managing grant spend and growing income.

In this role, you will support the Executive Team, Director of Strategy and Business Development and Head of Programmes in the delivery of Historic England's Corporate Plan through an agreed portfolio of capital and activity projects.

You will lead the successful and timely delivery of major projects and programmes to budget and within the Public Value Framework.You will build productive relationships and ensure that internal and external stakeholders are kept up to date and engaged with our projects.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth and Cambridge.

What you will be doing

Develop and lead the planning, implementation, and closure of major or organisationally significant projects and programmes. Working flexibly, readily reprioritising and utilising an entrepreneurial mindset to provide expertise and knowledge for new business opportunities and work coming into the department.

Work with the Director of Finance & Procurement, Director of Development, Head of Programmes and other senior colleagues to develop the organisation's approach to income generation, managing and inputting to the production of Treasury Green Book (and other format) business cases where required.

Take responsibility for ensuring that work is progressed to schedule and that appropriate risk, opportunity, issue and dependency management, quality control procedures, lessons learnt and benefits realisation approaches are in place for all programmes and projects, and to recommend and implement corrective measures where necessary.

Ensure the monitoring of performance, including any associated spend, in the individual programmes and projects is conducted in a consistent and appropriate manner and is ready for internal and external audit.This includes providing timely written and verbal progress reports to the Executive Team and other governance structures when required.

Work proactively with the Head of Programmes to creatively identify priorities for provision of national project or programme management resource to deliver large projects and programmes.

Lead and motivate cross-departmental programme and project teams (matrix working), ensuring development is progressed to schedule and that key issues are addressed proactively throughout the project lifecycle.

Lead and manage project and programme roles/teams effectively and fairly.

Be a full member of the Programmes Department leadership team, championing a consistent approach to project and programme management by actively participating in departmental and leadership team meetings, and proactively identifying and sharing interdependencies with other projects and programmes.

Deputise for the Head of Programmes at Business Improvement Leadership Team meetings and other meetings, as appropriate.

Offer mentoring and coaching support to colleagues delivering small to medium-size projects elsewhere in the organisation, promoting our online project management resources, participating in communities of practice, and participating in and initiating both in-person and remote opportunities for networking, learning and collaboration.

Take a leading role in maintaining effective relationships with selected partners as part of the HE-wide relationship management plan.

Be an effective internal and external advocate for Historic England and work collaboratively across the organisation to maximise our effectiveness.

Undertake any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade and competencies required of the post requested by line management.

Who we are looking for

Experience in developing, project managing and delivering major cross-functional projects across a complex range of internal and external stakeholders

Ability to lead and manage matrix teams, and maintain effective relationships across a complex organisation where line management of team members is dispersed

Strategic thinker with sound judgement - able to make decisions involving the analysis and interpretation of complex situations and information

Able to work with people in a variety of different roles and levels, with a strong track record of building successful collaborations

Entrepreneurial and flexible – able to creatively problem solve and deal with pressure and challenge

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at if you have any recruitment queries.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Interview dates: week commencing 10th June virtual

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