Programme Manager

Are you looking for a role where you can help shape something new, make a visible difference and work alongside people who care deeply about their place?

If so, HSCCA could be a brilliant next step. We are building a new Combined County Authority for Hampshire and the Solent, bringing together partners across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton to bring investment to the region and to create opportunities for our people, places, communities and businesses.

As our Programme Manager you will play a key role in helping HSCCA establish itself as a successful and effective new authority. Reporting to the Corporate Director of Delivery & Digital, you will lead the delivery of complex, high-profile programmes that support the organisation's strategic priorities, statutory responsibilities, and investment commitments. Working across multiple programmes and stakeholders, you will ensure change is well-governed, affordable, effectively managed, and delivers measurable benefits for the region.

In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring our teams have the tools, knowledge, and processes they need to deliver a high quality service. You will:

• Lead and deliver complex programmes from initiation to implementation and closure, ensuring strong governance, programme controls, budget management, and successful outcomes.
• Translate strategic priorities and organisational objectives into practical delivery plans, coordinating multiple projects, work streams, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Drive organisational change and transition activities, ensuring service continuity, business readiness, implementation planning, and successful adoption of new ways of working.
• Manage programme risks, issues, resources, budgets, suppliers, and delivery challenges, providing clear reporting, assurance, and decision-making support to senior leaders.
• Collaborate with internal teams, external partners, suppliers, and government stakeholders to resolve blockers, maintain delivery momentum, and achieve programme objectives.
• Support digital, operational, organisational, and service transformation initiatives while embedding benefits realisation, performance measures, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to project managers and delivery teams, helping to strengthen programme management capability and foster a high-performance delivery culture across HSCCA.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Extensive experience leading complex transformation, transition, or change programmes with significant organisational, operational, financial, and stakeholder impact.
• Strong programme management expertise, including governance, planning, risk and dependency management, benefits realisation, assurance, and successful programme delivery
• Proven ability to translate strategic priorities and policy objectives into practical, outcome-focused delivery plans that achieve measurable benefits.
• Significant experience managing large budgets, resources, suppliers, and cross-functional teams while ensuring value for money and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to operate effectively in complex, politically sensitive environments and drive organisational change.
• Experience working in local government, combined authorities, central government, public bodies, regulated sectors or partnership environments subject to formal governance, assurance and public accountability.
• Experience of public sector reorganisation, devolution, local government reform, public service integration, post-merger integration or complex service transfer.
• Knowledge of recognised programme and project management…