Regeneration Programme Lead

Overview

In this role you lead complex regeneration programmes for Gateshead, translating strategy into delivery across large-scale capital projects. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary workstreams, manage schedules and governance, and partner with public and private stakeholders to unlock investment and sustainable growth. You’ll operate in a fast-paced environment within the Economy, Innovation and Growth Group to deliver tangible improvements for the urban core. This is a chance to shape place-based regeneration with a cross-functional, impact-driven team.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Local Government Pension
• Generous Annual Leave
• Flexible Working Hours
• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• Learning & Development

Responsibilities

• Lead the full programme lifecycle from business case to delivery and transition into operation
• Maintain an Integrated Master Schedule with clear critical path and milestones
• Integrate inputs from technical, planning, commercial, procurement and finance into a coherent plan
• Coordinate internal and external delivery partners to ensure alignment and robust commercial scrutiny
• Support governance and assurance processes to meet standards and funding requirements
• Identify and escalate programme-level risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies with timely intelligence
• Engage Members, partners and stakeholders to support informed decision-making
• Build and lead high-performing programme teams with a focus on collaboration and delivery

Key requirements

• Capital programme and regeneration knowledge
• Experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary programmes through full lifecycle
• Financial and commercial understanding of large-scale capital funding
• Governance, assurance, risk management and programme controls experience
• Stakeholder and partnership working across organisations
• Leadership, communication and influencing skills for coordinating teams

• leadership
• communication
• stakeholder engagement
• Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• critical path analysis
• programme governance and assurance

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