Job Title: Training Digitalisation Programme Manager
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £50, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 months
Role ID: SF
Transform how we train, build capability for the future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Training Digitalisation Programme Manager.
The role
As a Training Digitalisation Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead a portfolio of strategically important programmes that transform and modernise training capability across our Land sector. This role is central to how Babcock builds future capability, supports sustainable growth and aligns training delivery with long‑term organisational priorities.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Leading the training capability programme, ensuring projects are clearly scoped, planned and delivered to time, cost and quality
2. Delivering robust programme governance, risk management and control across multiple workstreams
3. Producing clear programme reporting, dashboards and reporting packs for senior stakeholders
4. Coordinating resources across teams to ensure delivery plans remain achievable and realistic
5. Building strong stakeholder engagement through clear communication and aligned delivery plans
The role is a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, full time at 37 hours per week. The role is primarily home‑based, with regular travel required to training sites across the South to support on‑site delivery.
Essential experience of the Training Digitalisation Programme Manager:
6. Proven experience in project or programme management
7. Experience developing communication plans and leading stakeholder engagement
8. Experience identifying, managing and reporting programme risks
9. Experience producing structured programme reporting and governance packs
10. Experience using project management software, such as Microsoft Project
Qualifications for the Training Digitalisation Programme Manager:
11. APM or equivalent recognised project management qualification
12. Other project or programme management certifications would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer.