Programme Manager - Highways

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Kirklees
Economy & Infrastructure
Environment
Highways
Programme Manager - Highways
37
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Mobile and agile working at various offices including: Housing & Street Scene Building, Flint St, Huddersfield, HD1 6LG
Permanent
Grade 14

£48,474 - £50,512

Are you an experienced, talented and collaborative Programme Manager with experience of supporting public sector transformation and change?

Kirklees Council is leading the way by transforming services in the public sector, and we are looking for talented people to join us. This is your opportunity to help shape the future of Kirklees, to drive delivery of improvements and to be part of our journey towards delivering the best possible services for Kirklees residents.

Kirklees Council is seeking to fill a vacancy in its Transformation and Operational Services teams. The role is to deliver complex change projects for key services affecting Kirklees residents across the district. Operational services includes management of highways, parks and open spaces, waste and recycling collections, waste disposal, street cleansing, and various others. The first programme of works for you in this role would be focused on how we can modernise and think innovatively in delivering highways services. Experience in highways transformation would be ideal but is not necessarily essential. We believe there is scope to transform services delivered to Kirklees citizens - the scale of this challenge requires support from the brightest and best talent in the sector.

In this role you will develop, manage and successfully deliver a complex, high valued programme of strategic projects and initiatives, and will also lead and drive the design, development and implementation of evidenced strategies, complex research, and provide reports and presentations across the spectrum of Operational Services.

We are looking for an individual with extensive experience of delivering complex programmes in a partnership context, within a structured project management process to challenging timelines.

You will also have excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills, the ability to understand and motivate staff, to work with senior managers and Members, and the ability to carry out financial planning and understand, assimilate and communicate complex information.

We will provide:

  • Friendly and supportive team environment
  • Mobile and agile working
  • Excellent leave and pension benefits

Please refer to the attached Day In The Life document for more information about this job.

 

 

Lory Hunter is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

14 June 2020, 11:55 PM

Important Information

Job profile - programme manager.pdf – 316KB
Day in the Life - Programme Manager - Highways.pdf – 159KB

This vacancy is closed to applications.