Programme Manager

Role Responsibility

Programme Manager – Fixed term until 31 March 2022

We are looking for a professional, high performing programme manager to join Public Health Kent to providing support and advice to managers across the Directorate, in order to deliver effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales.

You will need to have extensive knowledge and skills in:

• Excellent project management skills from conception to delivery including financial monitoring, planning and improvement cycles
• High level of political awareness, diplomacy, and sensitivity
• Sound knowledge of policy and procedure and changing agendas within KCC, including roles of teams, officers and members, partnership agencies and the political arena
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally, in order to communicate with senior staff at all levels, internally and externally, including Members

You will need to be an excellent team player and be able to establish good working relationships with a variety of teams and stakeholders throughout the County.

Kent operates safer recruitment procedures.

Kent County Council is committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are committed to the Investors in People Standard.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applications closing date: 15 July 2021

Interviews week commencing: 19 July 2021

Contact Details

Terry Hall 07773 783996

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.