Senior Programme Delivery Manager (Health Informatics)

Job summary

The Health Informatics team has specialist skills in delivering programmes of work that include providing secure environments for storing and accessing health and other sensitive data to support health and care delivery, research, and innovation. Within the team we have both an Operations and Technical function. 

This role is part of the Programme Management Office (PMO) within the Operations function. The post holder will take responsibility for project managing multiple parallel projects within our portfolio, devising robust project plans with input from subject matter experts and ensuring their successful delivery throughout the project life cycle. They will drive working groups and meetings to facilitate identification of risks, interdependencies, and critical paths, and develop relevant mitigation plans alongside the PMO Lead. The post will also involve working to build strong and meaningful relationships with key external stakeholders and have the ability to recognise and work to address the articulated and unarticulated needs of stakeholders, taking a holistic perspective when approaching challenges and decision-making. 

The post holder will work alongside the PMO Lead to implement continuous improvement processes within the PMO and will support more junior team members to develop within their roles, providing training, guidance and coaching as appropriate. 

The post will involve working on a number of projects simultaneously and will be required to:

• Show adaptability to different types of work.
• Take a flexible approach, recognising that projects, activities and tasks will be highly varied.
• Demonstrate an aptitude for learning about new areas quickly.
• Write reports to a high standard, adapted to communicate effectively for difference audiences.
• Engage with project stakeholders and demonstrate an ability to build excellent working relationships. 

Essential:

• Educated to degree-level (any discipline), or with equivalent professional experience relating to programme management in a healthcare or research setting.
• Understanding of the NHS and/or health research landscape, ideally within the East of England
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to drive forward the delivery of complex projects at pace.
• Confident in providing structure and plans within sometimes ambiguous environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to adapt tone for different stakeholders.
• Ability to take data and present it in a way that appeals to various audiences, through presentations and reports.
• Strong organisational skills, able to multitask and prioritise work with competing pressures.
• Keen accuracy and attention to detail.
• Enjoys working in a small team, picking up tasks from colleagues as required to support each other’s workload, re-prioritising as needed to collectively deliver project responsibilities.
• Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with ability to learn additional project management software (such as Jira).
• Experience of delivering highly complex projects within a healthcare innovation and/or research setting.
• Experience of developing excellent relationships with multiple stakeholders at all levels.

Desirable:

• Formal project management qualification (e.g Agile, PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes).
• Some Knowledge of information governance requirements for use of sensitive data, ideally within a research setting.
• Existing use of a Project management software such as Jira.
• Experience of supporting and training others through a variety of methods.

All applicants must provide evidence of their right to work in the UK at the point of interview.

Occasional travel both within the region and nationally is required. We offer flexible working arrangements. 

Interview: Tuesday 25th  June 2024 in person.

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