Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 26 weeks with a possible extension.

Job Purpose

To act as the Programme Director for Transport for City Regions (TCR) programmes and projects, ensuring the efficient delivery of key projects and programmes of work, being part of the TCR portfolio.

The TCR portfolio from 2027/32 will be upwards of £168M, and this role will take ownership and key management duties on large scale, high value, complex and high priority programmes and projects with Programme values ranging from approximately £5 million to £40 million.

The role is to ensure, on behalf of the council, best value, cost effectiveness, and managing and developing priority and high-profile schemes within this major capital programme, adhering to THP governance, the Council's Corporate Governance and reporting, and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) governance and reporting.

The Programme Director will be required to provide leadership, ensuring that through delivery of this key capital programme of works, Liverpool City Council meets its aims, core values and business objectives as set out in the City Plan.

The Programme Director will engage and work with key stakeholders and other key partners at senior management/director level to develop and sustain the ability of LCC, directly or through strategic partners, to deliver to programme and budget, and to associated Grant Funding Agreements (GFAs).

The post holder will join the TCR team to help deliver a complex capital programme of investment in highways, active travel and public transport improvements, helping the council, and the Region, to meet its economic growth, connectivity and climate change targets.

Responsibilities

Directly responsible for the delivery teams on the assigned priority programmes and projects.

The programmes will have Programme and Project Leads appointed for each, with this role being directly responsible for them and ultimately for the multidisciplinary teams that service/resource the projects.

The project teams will be made up of both permanent staff and consultancy/contract support services procured by the council - each programme/project will have teams of upwards of 20 persons across all disciplines.

The Programme Director will have responsibility for the management and delivery of the multiple programmes and projects assigned to them, including project management, commercial management, scheduling and risk management, design delivery from concept to completion and then into tendering for the construction phase and into site delivery.

The Programme Director will have ultimate responsibility for the project initiation documentation and also the various procurements and contracts required to procure resource and services for the successful delivery of the programmes and projects assigned to the Programme Director from the TCR portfolio.

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