Programme Manager – Environmental Standards Scotland
Application closing date: 11:55 pm on Sunday 4th January 2026
This key role within Environmental Standards Scotland supports the Chief Executive, Executive Team, Board, colleagues and stakeholders to assist with ESS work. The focus is to deliver high‑quality programme management across the organisation.
You will need an eye for detail, creativity in approaching challenges, and a proactive stance on continuously improving existing processes and procedures.
Key duties and responsibilities
* Develop and maintain an ESS system to capture, summarise, visualise and report progress of all investigatory, analytical and corporate work in a regular, easy‑to‑assess way, highlighting where and why planned milestones are, or are not being met or are missing.
* Work with the Executive Team to support creative and considered approaches to resolving scheduling challenges, for example through redeployment opportunities or contracting external advice.
* Highlight the resource assigned to individual pieces of work and identify any constraints.
* Help identify whether and how individual pieces of work have dependencies on each other.
* Support the Chief Executive, Executive Team and wider organisation to prioritise individual pieces of work and, where appropriate, recommend which should be accelerated taking into account ESS’ strategy, annual business plan and the interests of ESS’ varied stakeholders.
* Facilitate a review of all work in a structured way at each Executive Team meeting, updating on progress, and making recommendations for changes.
All information and how to apply can be found here: https://bit.ly/48HnGBO
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Project Management and Information Technology
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