Assistant Programme Manager

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Job Description

Location - Birmingham

Salary (external only): Base salary: £32,050 pa to c.£37,700pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website

As an Assistant Programme Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for assisting the Programme Manager in managing the successful delivery of land requirements for an Area within the Phase.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the role:

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Logging, coordinating and communicating the change requests generated from both the Construction/Delivery teams and L&P teams by following the defined process.
• Assisting the Programme Manager with the reporting on the progression of Area level deliverables to the Programme Delivery Board and where required more broadly within HS2, on a routine and ad hoc basis
• Supporting the L&P programme manager in ensuring the programme is developed, maintained and analysed in order to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• Assisting the Programme Manager in identifying and ensuring that appropriate mitigating actions are implemented to address potential milestone slippages
• Interfacing with other HS2 functions including community engagement and health, safety and security to ensure the achievement of the broad suite of objectives in relation to the delivery of land
• Information Management including the maintenance of all programme information in Share point folders
• Adhere to HS2 Ltd's Health and Safety policies.

About You:

Skills:

• Communication skills, including developing stakeholder relationships and the ability to adopt different styles with different stakeholders
• Analysis skills, particularly in relation to the analysis of issues within delivery programmes, cost and risk
• An ability to work effectively across teams and lead delivery through matrixed relationships
• Innovative and critical thinking skills with relation to managing programme deliverables and competing priorities

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of best practice project and programme management techniques

Experience:

• Experience of managing stakeholder relationships
• Experience of delivering accurate and relevant reporting
• Experience of implementing analytical techniques to understand data

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.