We are looking for a Head of Delivery to lead the delivery of complex technology projects. Working closely with the executives and senior leaders, you will manage the delivery of a portfolio of work with many interdependencies. You’ll already have experience delivering a variety of technology and operation projects with significant complexity and budgetary responsibility. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can utilize your skills in an environment where you can have a personal impact, then please apply.

Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest-ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

What you'll be doing:

In this role, you will be responsible for the effective delivery of a programme of work building research products, platforms, processes and infrastructure that will enable the global research community to use the Our Future Health platform to accelerate the detection of disease.

You will be:

• A senior member of the Delivery team responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of challenging and ambitious operational and technical projects to establish and deliver the Feedback, Engagement and Recontact programme.
• Supported by a data and analytics team you will be responsible for effective reporting up and down the organisation and supporting effective decision-making with robust data and insights
• Lead all planning activity for this programme of work, devising milestones, project teams, managing complex interdependencies and resources
• Understanding, in detail the current projects and deliverables; and working to unblock issues to keep the projects moving
• Collaborating with and directing external suppliers and delivery partners as well as working with internal teams
• Implementing and supporting the use of appropriate project methodologies, digital tools and ways of working to empower distributed teams to deliver.
• Delivering options appraisals, status reports, risk management, resource modelling, supporting budget management and the planning of delivery within constraints
• Building relationships with stakeholders, often with competing business needs and providing innovative solutions to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Supporting continuous improvement of ‘ways of working’, processes and delivery methods

What you won’t be doing:

• Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
• Working in an environment where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes.

Requirements

We welcome applicants who don't think they meet all the criteria below or may have a non-traditional route within this space, so please apply if you feel the role is a match for your experience.

• Highly experienced in a programme management role (or similar), with proven experience of managing successful delivery of complex, high-profile operational programmes and digital products and services
• A strong communicator able to build and maintain momentum in project teams; with solid organisation skills including demonstrable experience in leading the delivery of multistranded programmes with multiple dependencies
• Evidence of working with multidisciplinary teams where the delivery may include setting up operational teams and processes, security and compliance activities, finance flows as well as technology platforms and digital products
• Driven by reaching targets and goals and effectively using software tools to manage and enable delivery with clear plans (we use Asana, Confluence, Jira, Sharepoint)
• Extensive experience with agile and lean methodologies including Kanban and Scrum; able to coach within and outside the team and act as an advocate
• Tenacious, detail-orientated and able to remove blockers and help identify and solve problems.
• Experience working with external contractors, partners and suppliers.

Helpful but not essential:

• Agile qualifications such as Scrum Master
• Experience in the healthcare domain

Benefits

• Annual salary up to £100,000
• Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
• Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities.
• A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London – we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
• Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

We will be closing applications for this role on Friday 15th of December 2023.