Skills Programme Delivery Manager

Starting salary: £43,227

Contract type: Fixed term until 14 March 2027

Grade: 4

Location: The Engine Shed, Stirling FK8 1QZ

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Interviews: To be held Week Commencing 30 March 2026

As Skills Programme Delivery Manager, you will manage the Skills Programme Team and the successful delivery of HESs Craft Your Career training programmes.

You will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality workplace learning using traditional building skills, conservation, and construction accreditation through our Trainee, Craft Fellow, Pre-apprenticeship, Modern Apprenticeship programmes. You will work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-quality training experiences. These programmes are fundamental to the delivery of HESs strategic objectives, to address sector skills gaps and to ensure that HESs own skills needs are met.

• Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme 28% employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave, pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) + 11.5 public holidays
• Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
• Support for further education and personal development
• Study leave for work related courses
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
• Free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties

• Support the delivery of HES and sector-wide priorities, including alignment with the Skills Investment Plan (SIP), HESs Corporate Plan and Annual Operating Plan.
• Provide insight to help shape programme strategy.

• Manage and deliver high-quality workplace training through Craft Your Career and related programmes.
• Assist with budget planning, forecasting, and monitoring.
• Manage and advise on programme health and safety and carry out regular visits to training placements across Scotland/UK.
• Support robust and ongoing resource capacity and capability management in relation to placement numbers.
• Report on programme progress in line with HES standards.
• Promote the programmes and celebrate achievements.

• Lead the Skills Programme Team (3 Skills Programme Officers and approximately 50 participants at any time).

• Develop evaluation methods that meet HES, Skills Investment Plan, and funder needs.
• Review and improve processes and share learning.
• Produce high-quality management reports.

• Maintain relationships with placement hosts and advise on safe working practices.
• Work with partners to provide high-quality placements.
• Identify and grow new partnerships.

• Ensure strong health and safety practices are in place across all training activities.
• Escalate concerns to the Skills Programme Development Manager.

In order for you to be successful in this post, we will be looking for you to submit a cover letter which addresses how you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 1,200 words), using examples of where you have demonstrated these criteria previously. Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post.

You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life, home life, education or volunteer experience.

• Ability to build positive, professional relationships.
• Strong people management skills with experience leading teams.
• Knowledge of the historic environment sector and relevant training needs.
• Experience delivering workplace learning in the historic environment or construction sector.
• Experience setting up and managing work programmes.
• Awareness of health and safety, safeguarding, and accessibility requirements.
• Good IT skills, including report writing and Excel.
• Valid UK driving licence.
• This role involves doing regulated work with children and young or vulnerable adults, as such this post will require an application to Disclosure Scotland for membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups scheme (PVG scheme) check on top of the Basic Disclosure check carried out for all…