Programme Manager – Social Care Improvement

Overview

You lead a six-month transformation programme for a high-profile UK charity, turning ambitious plans into measurable delivery. You work with senior leaders to establish governance and clear progress, risks, and outcomes. The role combines rigorous programme management with a meaningful social purpose in a collaborative, values-led environment. You drive focus, pace, and practical improvements across service, operations, and financial performance, delivering a sustainable handover.

Pay / Benefits

• Outside IR35 Day Rate – Outcome Based with deliverables

Responsibilities

• Assess current transformation portfolio, delivery capability, and performance
• Translate objectives into a prioritised six-month plan with milestones and accountabilities
• Set up governance, reporting cycles, escalation routes and change controls
• Create and maintain an integrated programme plan, roadmap, RAID log, and dependency map
• Clarify roles across senior leaders, teams and enabling functions
• Define KPIs and dashboards for service, operational, financial, and delivery performance
• Produce clear, decision-focused reporting for executive and governance meetings
• Identify risks and obstacles and propose practical interventions
• Facilitate reviews, planning sessions and senior stakeholder workshops
• Coordinate interdependent workstreams while preserving ownership with internal leaders
• Use data and insight to identify improvement opportunities
• Support initiatives around data foundations, BI, technology, AI, systems and operating-model development
• Strengthen internal programme management capability through coaching and templates
• Build alignments while challenging weak ownership
• Develop handover and sustainability plan for post-assignment impact

Key requirements

• listening and credibility with senior leaders
• collaboration and stakeholder management
• ability to coach and transfer knowledge
• performance data analysis
• KPIs and reporting dashboards
• risk and dependency management (RAID)

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