Senior Transformation Programme Manager Key Contacts

The purpose of this senior leadership role is to lead delivery of the IOPC Transformation programme. The post holder will have primary responsibility for successful delivery of the required outcomes of the programme, including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change.
The Senior Transformation Programme (STP) Manager will lead and manage the day-to-day running of the programme, maintain oversight of the programme to ensure delivery is on track, monitoring progress, controlling investment, helping to identify and deal with issues, providing reports and managing resourcing.
The STP Manager should work effectively and collaboratively with others across the organisation, understanding their pressures and challenges, aligning priorities in order to deliver programme objectives. They will also need to develop streamlined structures and processes that are clear, focused, and easily understood to optimise clarity of accountability and supports effective delivery.
The STP Manager will need to develop a clear programme narrative, including a benefits case that can be shared with external stakeholders and staff as well as develop and implement an approach to managing transformation and effective engagement across the IOPC.
What does transformation mean to the IOPC?
Transformation programmes are extremely challenging in any environment, particularly as we face the delivery challenge of leaving the European Union. But we have recognised the need to work together across government, to share experience and learn collectively to improve our delivery capability and capacity. Our transformation programmes are different in their nature from traditional major projects and invariably need multiple interdependent elements to be delivered concurrently. Transformation is not about working harder – it is about radically rethinking how we work and think. Understanding user needs and designing our services round them, being proportionate – doing what we need to do to get to the right outcome and no more, willing to take more risks in our work and looking critically at our processes for waste and opportunities where technology can make our work easier.
Visit our careers page to find out more about our Transformation programme., + Functional leadership: Leading a multidisciplinary team working in a matrix environment and building strong relationships across team/business area/departmental/ boundaries with clear evidence of the ability to deliver through others. An ability to build network of influence, formal resource management and direction of teams. Able to build effective teams, flex and deploy appropriate resource, underpinned by active delegation and the development of individual and team performance.
+ Leadership vision and objectives – Create an environment in which projects can succeed – working effectively together and managing dependencies. Delivering benefits and outcomes set out in business cases.
+ Guidance – Provide direction and guidance on development to team and more broadly across IOPC including to SROs of key programmes.
+ Resource management – Build and maintain a strong delivery-focused programme team. Provide leadership and direct larger multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successfully.
Communication and engagement:
+ Communications and stakeholder management – Ensure stakeholder interests are identified and addressed. Segment and manage multiple stakeholder groups appropriately in complex environments. Build consensus across a large and often diverse group of stakeholders and develop strategic relationships with internal and external suppliers. Work closely with the SRO to co-manage senior stakeholders.
Working collaboratively:
+ Strong relationship management, interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to operate and build effective relationships at all levels within an organisation particularly at Director level and above and across business areas. Understanding stakeholders’ drivers and behaviours, utilising these to deliver on the programme’s aims.
Programme management:
+ Business case –leading development and maintenance of Programme business case, aligning with senior stakeholders and agreeing through Programme Board / SRO / Management Board.
+ Risks and issues – Accountable for ensuring strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed and mitigated. Ensure senior stakeholders are briefed, updated and where appropriate, enrolled in the management and control of key risks. Identify and engage specialists as appropriate.
+ Benefits realisation – Provide strategic leadership in monitoring benefit delivery and to maximise benefits from the programme.
+ Programme performance and controls – Responsible for identifying success criteria, set project controls and be accountable for performance. Monitor and control progress, engage fully with any IPA assurance and GIAA audits and respond to recommendations.
+ Dependency management – Quality Assuring the dependency management process, working with senior stakeholders to resolve issues and acting as a link between the programme and business governance.
Finance and budget:
+ Budget management – accountable for a delegated budget to deliver the programme. Managing within agreed tolerances. Ensuring projects and programmes within the programme are operating within budget and agreed tolerances.
Other:
+ Actively promote the IOPC values.

Key Contacts
+ Director of Transformation
+ SROs (Senior Responsible Officer) for the key programmes of change
+ Executive Director of Investigations and Oversight, Executive Director of Strategy, Comms and Engagement
+ Director General, Throughout the recruitment process we may also assess your Experience, Strengths, Technical skills and Values.
For candidates who are invited to the next stage, you will be informed which behaviours will be assessed at a later stage.
Anticipated interview dates are likely to be on 5 December 2024 via MS Teams. Please note, this date may change.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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+ Delivery: A high degree of personal resilience, tenacity and focus on outcomes. Able to navigate often complex and demanding regulatory, commercial and political landscapes, all the time maintaining a dynamism with a focus on achieving measurable and impactful results delivering excellent customer value. Able to contribute strategically across IOPC as part of the corporate leadership network as well as deliver vertically on functional objectives.
+ A Project Delivery Professional – substantial senior level programme and project management experience in major change or transformation programmes.
+ Demonstrable experience of managing a portfolio of projects from start to finish.
+ Delivering within a structured environment and capable of deriving innovative and creative solutions to problems.
+ Successfully leading a virtual ‘team’ from across functional or organisational boundaries to deliver high quality outputs.
+ Experience of substantial stakeholder management in a complex organisational environment.
+ Be someone who effectively plans, prioritises, and manages the delivery of complex projects or activities to achieve long-term strategic objectives.
+ An experienced change leader, capable of creating and delivering strategic plans, coordinating and meeting demands from multiple stakeholders.
+ Demonstrable experience of managing teams with an ability to motivate and lead a team effectively, setting clear objectives to manage performance and strategic direction.
+ Strong leadership style, with self-awareness and the ability to influence, motivate and lead effectively across an organisation with a diverse set of stakeholders.
+ Demonstrable commitment to learning and using established project management methodologies to enable successful delivery.

Desirable Experience
+ Delivered programmes within a regulatory or public sector environment.

Essential Technical
+ Technical PPM: A deep understanding and experience of Complex Programme Delivery through the end to end project lifecycle, from strategy, through initiation to delivery with a proven track record of managing large- scale, high value, complex property investment projects and programmes with a focus on new build and refurbishment commercial office projects. This should be on a national level, within a highly complex multi-client environment, driven by a culture of excellence in customer service.
+ Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g. Project Management) or able to demonstrate significant knowledge experience at a comparable level.
+ One or more of the following:
+ Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
+ Managing Successful Programmes Advanced Practitioner
+ P3O Practitioner
+ APM Chartered Professional Qualification
+ Major Projects Leadership Academy
+ Practitioner level in the Government Project Delivery Accreditation

Alongside your salary of £71,347, Independent Office for Police Conduct contributes £20,669 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ 27.5 days paid annual leave (increasing with service to 32.5 days)
+ Options to carry over, buy or sell annual leave
+ Civil Service pension
+ Civil Service maternity leave package
+ PAM employee assistance programme
+ Access to Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) membership
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Opportunity to enjoy the latest home and electronics in a more affordable way provided by Vivup
+ Car Leasing Scheme
+ Staff networks focused on each of the protected characteristics – run for staff, by staff:
- Enable Network
- Welsh Network
- Pride and LGBTQI+ Network
- Sex and Family Network
- Race, Religion and Belief Network
- Age Network
+ Learning and development tailored to your role
+ An environment with flexible working options
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity behaviours