Programme Manager

• Varied and exciting role reporting to the COO
• Support the delivery of the ambitious 5 year plan

About Our Client

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is the leading national charity supporting young minds through innovative therapeutic practice, training and research.

Their vision is a world in which children, young people and their families are effectively supported to build on their own strengths to achieve their goals in life.

They care for young minds in five main ways:

1. Researching the underlying causes of childhood emotional distress using the latest neuroscience techniques;

2. Developing, piloting and evaluating new, cost-effective interventions and treatments for children and families facing mental health difficulties;

3. Supporting mental health and education services to improve their practice, through the collection and evaluation of outcomes data and shared decision making;

4. Offering teaching and training courses and building a global network of researchers, clinicians and mental health, social care and education professionals to ensure that new knowledge and ideas are shared as widely as possible;

5. Providing advice and leadership to national policy initiatives focused on improving children and young people's mental health.

Job Description

The Centre launched an ambitious five-year strategic plan - Closing the Gap - for 2022- 2026 to grow the Centre's reach, influence and impact.

To ensure the success of the strategy, eight internal change projects have been identified. These are known as the "Enabling Conditions" and are:

* Equity, Diversity and Inclusion;

* Increasing Participation and Co-Production;

* Brand, Marketing and Communications;

* Business Model;

* Digital Transformation;

* New Ways of Working;

* Product and Service Development.

The post-holder will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer, Finance Director and Consultant Strategist, who are responsible for ensuring the progress and delivery of these conditions to support the Executive and everyone in the organisation to achieve our strategy objectives. This is one of several newly created posts to support the Centre's Enabling Conditions. The post-holder will support, coordinate and monitor the progress of all eight Enabling Conditions.

Duties and responsibilities

Strategy Implementation

* Maintain an overview of strategy impact across the Centre covering resources, priorities and dependencies;

* Maintain an overview of workflows;

* Highlight issues to the Executive and propose resolution for issues with prioritising and dependencies;

* Develop and prepare regular reporting and operational updates against operational plan targets to various stakeholders, including a central dashboard in liaison with strategy implementation colleagues;

* Coordinate the Strategy Implementation Team;

* Develop strong relationships and engagement across the Centre; * Lead liaison with Internal Communications to ensure effective updating on Strategy progress across the Centre.

Other

* To maintain an awareness of and actively follow and promote the Centre's policies, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Information Governance;

* To complete all Centre mandatory training, including but not limited to Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities and Information Governance, within the required timescales;

* The welfare of the children, young people and vulnerable adults who come into contact with our services either directly or indirectly is paramount and all staff have a responsibility to ensure that best practice is followed, including compliance with statutory requirements.

The Successful Applicant

• Qualification or accreditation in the use of recognised structured project management methodology, e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or similar.
• Experience of managing and delivering complex large-scale projects with substantial budgets and multiple stakeholders;
• Experience of working effectively with a high degree of autonomy;
• Experience of working with professionals from a variety of backgrounds;
• Experience of promoting collaborative working across a broad range of individuals to deliver a complex project;
• Experience of effective management of contracts with external providers, to time and to budget;
• Knowledge of budget management;
• Knowledge and/or lived experience to ensure diversity and inclusion considerations are included in project development discussions;
• Experience of working in fast-paced, sometimes rapidly changing contexts.
• Effective communication skills, both written and spoken;
• Excellent stakeholder collaboration skills;
• Excellent administration and coordination skills;
• Ability to manage own time amidst a number of concurrent projects and demands;
• Excellent analytic skills;
• Effective negotiation skills and ability to build trust and genuine partnerships across a wide range of professionals;
• Ability to manage databases and set up efficient administration systems;
• Confident IT user, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

What's on Offer

£51-£52K plus benefits

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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