British CouncilHiring for Projects and Programmes at Noida, Uttar Pradesh Full Time

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company: British Council

Role Purpose:
You will support the Transformation Workstream Programmes and support specific projects within the Programme. You will support Core Team in the area of Programme delivery, governance, Risk Management, stakeholder Engagement and Assurance.

You will support governance, planning, key activities, progress against baseline plan trends, key milestones and deliver the workstream or Core Team outcomes.

This role is located within Transformation Programme and reports to Programme director.

Role Context:
The Transformation function is a fixed term function which has been put in place to lead the British Council’s Transformation Programme. It consists of programme, change management & organisation design, finance, and communications experts. Each workstream (SBU or Professional Service) has its own Programme Director, Change Manager and PMO.

The Project Manager to be part of Transformation Core Team and support all Workstreams.

Main accountabilities including but not limited to the following:

Leadership & management

Provides leadership to smaller Workstreams or on an interim basis / core team projects of Transformation Programme.

Delivers the programme outputs and new ways of working / tools that either form essential parts of programmes, or are directly taken up and used by business stakeholders to drive Transformation:

Provides thorough knowledge of specialization such as Program Planning, Risk management, Gap analysis, Forecasting, resource planning etc to Workstream.

Ensures robust practices for project development, scoping, including costs, risks, governance, tolerances and quality management.

Strategy and/or planning

Provides strategic direction for the successful implementation of Programme

Ensure that project plans and direction align with corporate strategy, policies and processes to deliver the project objectives

Relationship and Stakeholder management

Engages with and supports workstream for delivery, coordination and analysis of the workstream progress to identify potential implementation Risks

Supports workstreams for Transformation related delivery governance and process compliance by engaging with Workstream’s Programme Director, Workstream Planning Manager and OD Team.

Risk and compliance

Uses standard British Council Risk management guidelines, combined with previous project delivery experience and detailed knowledge of risk management for complex programmes.

Assesses a range of risks to project delivery/project milestones and ensures appropriate escalation is done to Workstream Team and Transformation Director effectively.

Analysis and reporting

Identify key Transformation Programme delivery milestones or trend of slippage and raise alert with Workstream Leads, Transformation Programme Director and Programme Board

Role specific knowledge and experience:
Proven project management experience delivering large projects to successful outcomes, preferably across a major part of an organisation and/or a significant geographical area

Proven experience in managing and influencing senior stakeholders

Role Specific Skills

Delivery Governance Experience – Create business case , Plan, set up and Maintain project governance and use project delivery experience to delivery successful Projects.

Project assurance experience – Design and establish assurance for large and complex projects in multi country / region implementation in British Council or outside in industry

Further Information

Pay Band: 8

Contract Type: 12 Months FTC

Location: UK, India, Europe or MENA

Requirement: Must have the right to work in the above location. We will not support relocation

Closing Date: Monday, 20th June ( 23:59 BST)