Program Manager

Overview

Programme Manager – Strategic Delivery & PMO

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Location: London/Hybrid

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract 12 Months

Key responsibilities

Strategic Project Leadership & Oversight

• Lead day‑to‑day planning, tracking, oversight, and reporting of a programme of Strategic Projects derived from ScreenSkills’ Strategy and Annual Operating Plan activities.
• Maintain the organisation‑wide roadmap of Strategic Projects, including dependencies, milestones, delivery risks and mitigations.
• Ensure Strategic Projects deliver expected outcomes, integrating evaluation, workforce insight and stakeholder priorities.
• Delivery of Core Strategy Workstreams
• Monitor actual expenditure and forecasted spend for Strategic Projects, aligned to the current budgets, working closely with senior colleagues in delivery and Finance teams.
• Work with the CEO, Finance Director and the COO to produce board updates and strategic performance summaries.
• Proposing and identifying risks and mitigations

Communications, Reporting & Engagement

• Working effectively with all teams, particularly Finance.
• Scheduling regular update meetings with key colleagues to ensure that they are up-to-date with what’s happening across delivery activities and alerting project leads and other senior colleagues to any potential issues (e.g. in the areas of staffing, resourcing, timelines, delivery against targets or reporting)
• Provide delivery support for project groups as needed (including the cross‑sector stakeholder groups).
• Engage with all internal and external stakeholders as needed.

PMO Functional Development

• Support the COO in maturing the project planning, management and coordination methodologies throughout the organization (the establishment of a basic PMO).
• Lead organisation‑wide adoption of a suitable task/project management platform to act as a “single source of truth” for projects.
• Help build organisational capability through coaching and mentoring colleagues involved in project delivery.
• Develop consistent planning and reporting tools for use across projects.
• Produce portfolio‑level dashboards and narrative reporting to improve oversight of performance, risks and resourcing across relevant projects.
• Outline use cases for applicable tools, systems & processes

Essential skills and experiences

• Proven experience managing complex organisational Strategic Projects.
• Experience establishing or contributing to PMO structures or delivery frameworks.
• Strong financial literacy and ability to manage budgets.
• Experience coordinating multi‑stakeholder delivery across sectors or agencies.
• Excellent project and programme planning skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship‑building and diplomacy.
• Ability to synthesise information and produce concise high‑quality reporting.
• Strong organisational, analytical and communication skills.
• Experience in skills, education, creative industries or public‑policy environments.

Attributes

• Highly organised, proactive and solutions‑focused
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and complexity
• Collaborative and committed to inclusive workforce development