Programme Manager

This is a key role within Environmental Standards Scotland. You will work to the Chief Executive, and with the Executive Team, Board, colleagues and stakeholders, across all levels, to assist with the work of ESS.

You will need an eye for detail and the ability to be creative in your approach to challenges, alongside being proactive in seeking to continuously improve existing processes and procedures.

The focus of this post will be to deliver for ESS high-quality programme management across the organisation.

There is no current line management responsibilities.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

To provide programme management support directly to the Chief Executive by:

• developing and maintaining an ESS system to capture, summarise, visualise and report progress of all investigatory, analytical and corporate work in a regular, easy to assess way, highlighting where and why planned milestones are, or are not being met or are missing
• working with the Executive Team to support creative and considered approaches to resolving scheduling challenges, for example through redeployment opportunities or contracting external advice
• highlighting the resource assigned to individual pieces of work and identifying any constraints
• helping identify whether and how individual pieces of work have dependencies on each other
• supporting the Chief Executive, Executive Team and wider organisation to prioritise individual pieces of work and, where appropriate, recommending which should be accelerated taking into account ESS' strategy, annual business plan and the interests of ESS' varied stakeholders
• facilitating a review of all work in a structured way at each Executive Team meeting, updating on progress, and making recommendations for changes