Role Responsibility
PLEASE NOTE: Applications for this role are currently open only to existing staff of Kent County Council, Medway Council and Kent's District & Borough Councils.
Shape the future of local government in Kent & Medway
This is a rare opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the most complex and highprofile public sector transformation programmes in the country.
The Kent & Medway Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) Programme is delivering fundamental change to how local government is designed and delivered across the region. We are now looking for experienced Senior Programme Managers to help lead this journey, ensuring services remain safe, resilient and ready for the future.
If you thrive at pace, enjoy working across organisational boundaries, and want to make a lasting difference for our residents, this role offers challenge, visibility and impact in equal measure.
About the role
Reporting to the Programme Director, you will play a key leadership role within the LGR Programme, leading major programme components, workstreams and projects that underpin successful reorganisation. You will:
1. Provide visible, confident leadership across a complex, multiorganisation programme and workstreams
2. Drive delivery of critical milestones, ensuring statutory compliance and service continuity
3. Shape programme design, governance and assurance arrangements
4. Support decisionmaking through highquality advice and reporting
5. Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, partner councils, government departments and external advisers
6. Act as a critical friend, bringing challenge, insight and sound professional judgement
As part of this programme, you will be expected to work impartially on behalf of all 14 existing councils and the future council(s), setting aside previous organisational allegiances in the interests of the programme as a whole.
What youll bring to the team
Youll be an accomplished professional with a strong track record of delivering successful outcomes within local government or a multiagency public sector environment.
Were looking for someone who can demonstrate:
7. Experience of working on important programmes or projects
8. Strong programme planning, governance and assurance capability
9. A pragmatic, proportionate approach to programme and project management methodologies
10. Excellent communication skills, including clear reporting to political and senior forums
11. The ability to remain calm, focused and effective in uncertain, fastmoving environments
Why join the Kent & Medway LGR Programme?
12. Be at the heart of onceinageneration public sector change
13. Work with talented colleagues from across Kent & Medway in a genuinely collaborative environment
14. Gain exposure to senior decisionmaking and complex system leadership
15. Develop your career through a highly visible, strategically important role
16. Make a real difference to how services are delivered to residents for years to come
Our shared Kent and Medway values
We are one team, working openly and collaboratively across Kent & Medway. We are caring, respectful and peoplecentred, open and accountable, curious and ambitious, and proud of the difference we are making together.
Interested?
Applications are currently open to existing staff of Kent County Council, Medway Council and Kent District & Borough Councils only.
This is an opportunity to step into a senior, influential role at the heart of LGR. If youre ready to help shape the future of local government in Kent & Medway, wed love to hear from you.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.