Deputy Director Change Implementation (Strength in Place) - 26711

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National
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Deputy Director
Fixed Term
Full Time
Business Management & Improvement
£73,000 pro-rata
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and innovative programme leader who will work at pace across a broad and varied portfolio with a passion to do great things for people and the environment.

As the Project Executive for the Strength in Place Change Programme you’ll provide strategic direction, leading the programme to ensure we’re ready for future successful delivery. You’ll be experienced in leading large change programmes, ideally with formal programme management skills. You’ll have a proven history in delivering excellent value for money, timely delivery, and assurance of outcomes to executive leaders. You’ll have experience in effective change communication, tracking and reporting performance, and establishing clear governance through senior leadership groups.

You’ll provide the strategic direction and leadership on shaping the target operating model for Local Operations. You’ll work with a wide range of people aligning the programme with other change programmes across the business. You’ll engage and influence Executive Directors and Executive managers across Directorates to develop complementary, affordable local operations’ structures and ways of working which maximise delivery of outcomes.
Principal accountabilities:
• Project Executive for the Strength-in-Place programme, developing, leading and implementing a change programme across Local Operations.
• Lead, develop and motivate your team as well as wider operational teams to ensure operating models are developed, delivered and embedded, ensuring the achievement of the operating model for local operations.
• Engaging and influencing Executive Directors and Executive Managers in all Directorates to ensure that Strength in Place is fully embedded in our wider work.
• Leading a virtual team of professionals drawn from a range of different disciplines

The following qualifications are expected for this role:
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, or able to demonstrate comparable technical know-how in a relevant subject.
• Ideally you will have formal change management/programme management qualifications/background.
Local Operations is the heart of our delivery activities.

Through this change programme, we will optimise our delivery model to ensure we continue to deliver more for the environment, ensuring our teams have the support, systems and processes to enable efficient and effective delivery. The new operating model will build resilience for current and future challenges, increase our impact and make the great work that our staff deliver even more fulfilling, visible and achievable.
• Experience of leading large, successful, and fast paced change programmes
• You’ll be skilled in managing programmes of work to deliver excellent value for money, timely delivery and provide assurance of outcomes to meet the requirements of local people and government or other funders.
• Experience of allocating funding, managing large projects, programmes, or portfolios, reporting on performance, producing papers for senior governance groups.
• Experience of introducing innovative approaches, ways of working and implementing this to change organisational culture.
• A proven and demonstrable track record in creating a culture that embraces difference and includes everyone
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively within a large and complex organisation.
• Proven track record in project delivery, value for money and excellent programme governance.
• The ability to adapt your leadership style to bring out the best in everyone you work with
Location is flexible but with regular travel and overnight stays expected
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will take on a strategic incident role and make yourself available to either lead our response to incidents or provide business continuity leadership during an incident. Full training and flexible working arrangements will be available to support you.
To discuss the role in more detail, please contact Phil Lodge phil.lodge@environment-agency.gov.uk

Assessments will take place using MS Teams on 14th and 15th June 2023. Further details will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

09/06/2023, 23:55 hours

Basic Check
ends 31/03/2024
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

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