Overview
As our Evolution Programme Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of shaping our organisation’s future, driving ambitious, high‑impact programmes that transform how we work and how we deliver for our communities. If you thrive on complexity, build powerful relationships, and love turning big ideas into real‑world results, this is your stage. Join us and lead the evolution!
Typical Day
* Appraising, establishing and implementing innovative programme and change management tools that unlock and drive forward the delivery of projects that achieve group objectives.
* Being responsible for a programme of large scale evolutionary projects that support our strategic direction, help us to achieve our corporate ambitions and deliver on our wider social value aspirations.
* Driving end‑to‑end delivery across multiple projects, ensuring efficient, effective delivery, whilst managing project interdependencies and priorities across all our business units. Ensuring value for money and wider impact at all times.
* Future planning – ensuring the capacity and capability of the organisation to deliver projects with competing priorities – and working with the senior management team to agree this.
* Developing feasibility and business cases and ensuring governance of project documentation to maintain strategic oversight, delivery assurance and constant communication at all times.
* Working across a wide section of internal colleagues and external partners to ensure specialist input where its needed, cross‑organisational buy‑in and appropriate sign‑off when required – leading the project steering board group wide to ensure joined up thinking and innovation at all times.
* Ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and the quality anticipated.
* Playing a huge part in change management, working with colleagues to ensure projects and their impact is evidenced and communicated across the group and beyond.
* Reporting and presenting on progress, challenges and risks to our key stakeholders, executive team and our board.
* Constantly risk assessing, being solution focused and target driven. You will understand each project, the ‘why’ and the strategic fit. The ‘how’ we will leave down to you to work with the teams to deliver it.
* Reviewing and evaluating project completions and success – focusing on their impact and the wider strategic impact for our customers and communities.
Experience / Skills
* Experience of managing cross‑cutting programmes and projects, and implementing programme management tools.
* Strong leadership, effective communication and great relationship building. You will know how to engage and motivate people around you to get the job done.
* Successful track record of delivering a programme which requires working effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and/or organisations to deliver shared goals, solution focused and target driven.
* Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
* Managing project budgets and risks are natural to you – and you can talk numbers with finance as much as words with marketing.
* Strong skills in writing and presenting – with experience of business case and feasibility preparation, report writing and presenting to senior teams.
* Great business acumen, understanding the business context and be able to align the programme with our strategic goals.
* Proven track record of managing large scale projects, delivered on time and to budget.
* Never compromise quality, working hard to ensure high standards of work in everything you do.
* Passionate about making a difference – our projects deliver impact in our communities each and every day.
* Think on your feet, finding solutions to challenging problems as they crop up.
* Eye for detail, ensuring nothing falls through the gaps and we maximise every efficiency and opportunity.
What will make you stand out from the crowd
* Experience of successfully operating in a complex organisational or political environment.
* General understanding of issues and policy relating to communities.
* Experience of working on government funded projects and the complexities this can bring.
* Interest or experience in impact measurement at a community and national level.
* Strong external stakeholder management.
* Experience in developing community and customer engagement activities – and co‑designing projects and services with those who will use them.
Benefits
* Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave rising by 1 per year to a max of 30 plus bank holidays.
* Pension contributions up to 10%.
* Professional training, funded by us.
* One day paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your annual leave entitlement).
* Paycare – health and benefits scheme supporting you with counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and more.
* Acis Perkz – discount scheme saving you on hundreds of schemes including coffee, weekly shop, days out and more.
* Employee recognition scheme – celebrating and awarding our Stars within Acis.
* Long service awards for loyal employees.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Employee assistance programme – confidential advice and support when you need it.
* Professional membership subscription – continuous professional development.
* Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme.
Application
As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need.
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