EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Demonstrable effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- The demonstrable ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project teams
- Demonstrable good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
- Demonstrable sound business case development and approvals skills, in a similarly complex environment
- Demonstrable good understanding of the public sector procurement process including negotiation with third parties
- Demonstrable good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
- Demonstrable sufficient seniority and credibility to advise project teams on their projects in relation to the programme
- The demonstrable ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Demonstrable understanding of a range of structured programme and project management methodologies including Agile and PRINCE2
- Demonstrable experience working on large scale technical transformation programmes