Technical Programme Manager: Place Leadership
Connected Places Catapult, United Kingdom
Job Description
Location - Milton Keynes or London (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)
Reporting to - Technical Programme Team Lead
Working hours - Full time
Band - 4.1
Salary - 65,608 - 71,856 (depending on location and proven ability)
Contract type/duration - Permanent
Closing date - 6th March 2023
Who Are We?
Connected Places Catapult (CPC) is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places. We provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel. We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets.
We are creating a new team of Technical Programme Managers to manage our flagship programmes and work with others across the business to unlock innovations that foster place prosperity.
Purpose of the role
The Technical Programme Manager will combine project and programme management with experience of leading local government regeneration or economic renewal projects to shape the effective delivery of our Place Leadership portfolio. This is a new role that will work with functions across the organisation, particularly colleagues leading ecosystem innovation, project delivery, sales and bid development.
The role will provide dedicated delivery leadership of our Innovate UK programme for Place Leadership, including project management of our primary strategic Place Leadership project, ensuring it delivers to cost, time, quality and reporting requirements. The postholder will draw on the outputs and learnings from this project to support the Place Leadership Ecosystem Director to scope future projects. They will additionally provide Place Leadership sector programme management oversight across all relevant projects, maintaining a consolidated programme plan across the portfolio to identify efficiencies, opportunities and synergies. They will also support effective project planning through bid development.
The successful applicant will have deep knowledge in the design of activities to support local place prosperity through innovation. As the role requires some project and programme management, the successful applicant will have transferrable skills in project or programme management.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide detailed planning and management of the Place Leadership Innovate UK strategic projects to cost, time, quality and reporting requirements. Ensure these meet all Innovate UK milestones, deliver the required impact and are resourced appropriately. Regular liaison with Delivery and the Place Leadership Ecosystem Director to resolve any Issues and agree risk management strategies.
- Draw on the outputs and learnings from the Place Leadership Innovate UK projects to scope potential Collaborative Ramp;D and Commercial projects, working with Ecosystem Director, Place Leadership
- Maintain a consolidated programme management plan across all projects in the Place Leadership ecosystem, ensuring that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts by sharing knowledge across projects and providing robust challenge and support. Provide monthly management information to their Team Lead and the Ecosystem Director, Place Leadership, on the performance of the programme overall, and of sales opportunities.
- Provide over-arching programme management across the Place Leadership portfolio with a particular focus on tracking emerging capabilities and outputs.
- Work with the Ecosystem Director, Place Leadership to support the operationalisation of strategic plans through supporting the shaping of new projects and programmes, and leading on project resource planning at the bid development stage.
- Working with Content Leads and others, lead the development of detailed technical project plans for bids and proposals that enable a seamless transition into project delivery and draft the technical content of bids and proposals.
- Provide sector and technical input to business development and engagement meetings with clients and partners, as required by the Devolved amp; Local Government team, Sales/Engagement, Ecosystem Director and Proposal Content Leads.
- As required by the Ecosystem Director, maintain relationships with stakeholders to aid the development of project and consortium teams, supporting revenue growth.
- Build knowledge and contacts through presenting on project work at conferences, seminars and workshops, and representation on steering groups/external