Technical Programme Manager: Rail Stations
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 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.
Purpose of the role
The Technical Programme Manager will combine programme management with technical experience of leading projects to shape the effective delivery of Rail projects. This Is a new role that will work across the COO functions, working closely with the relevant Ecosystem Director in the Multipliers team and the Delivery teams.
The role will provide dedicated delivery leadership of the Innovate UK milestone programme for each ecosystem, ensuring Milestone projects deliver to cost, time, quality and reporting requirements and meet all Innovate UK milestones. The postholder will draw on the outputs and learnings from these projects to support the Ecosystem Director to scope potential CRamp;D and Commercial projects. They will provide hands-on Rail Sector programme management oversight across all relevant projects within their ecosystem, maintaining a consolidated ecosystem focused plan across all projects to aid project management (e.g. identification of efficiencies, opportunities or synergies), working in partnership with the relevant Ecosystem Director. They will also support effective project planning through working with Principal Strategists, Bid Managers and Engagement Leads to provide technical content to bids and proposals.
The successful applicant will have credible rail-specific technical expertise to the extent that they are able to manage the technical and programmme delivery of the rail milestone. They will draw on that technical knowledge to work with the Ecosystem Innovation team and Delivery teams to provide ecosystem knowledge input to develop detailed project plans.
As the role requires some project and programme management, the successful applicant will have transferrable skills in project or programme management - for example managing elements of projects, such as in the capacity of a Work Package Lead. Whilst qualifications and experience in project and programme management are desirable, training and support will be provided by the Heads of Projects amp; Programmes: Strategic Accounts and PMO.
This new role represents an ideal development opportunity for colleagues with technical skills who aspire to progress to leadership roles in Ecosystem Innovation or Operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide detailed planning and management of the Rail amp; Stations Innovate UK Milestone 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 the Project Sponsor, Delivery Directors and Delivery Team leads to resolve any Issues and agree risk management strategies.
- Draw on the outputs and learnings from the Milestone projects to scope potential CRamp;D and Commercial projects, working with Ecosystem Director, Rail amp; Stations.
- Provide over-arching programme management to the project managers managing all Rail and Station projects in the Connected Places portfolio.
- Work with the Ecosystem Director, Rail amp; Stations to support the operationalisation of strategic plans through supporting the shaping of new projects and programmes.
- Maintain a consolidated programme management plan across all projects In the Rail 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, Rail amp; Stations, on the performance of the programme overall, and of sales opportunities.
- Working with the Principal Strategists, 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. Determine when additional technical input is required from the business to technically scope and plan opportunities and bids