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Programme Delivery Manager – Temporary (up to 24 months)

Salary: £62,623 to £73,674 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Temporary: Fixed-Term Contract or Secondment
Hours: Full-Time
Location description: Hybrid between home and Poole
Closing Date: 24-04-2025
Reference: 19371

The RNLI is a charity that provides a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional, and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.

We’re looking for an inspiring and experienced Programme Delivery Manager to lead the effective design and delivery of the non-ERP work packages across our Mainstay digital transformation programme, ensuring that it is managed effectively in accordance with the defined methodology and quality expected by the RNLI.

Some of the benefits

- Salary of £62,623 to £73,674 (dependent on experience)
- Hybrid and Flexible working options
- 26 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (increases with service)
- Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
- Life assurance
- Health and dental cashplan option

The role

This is a pivotal role, responsible for delivering the non-ERP projects within the Mainstay programme, which is transforming the way the RNLI operates through a combination of business change and digital enhancement.

Reporting to the Programme Lead, the successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing and managing the successful delivery of the work, combining leadership, strategic thinking, and project management skills to drive progress and deliver within agreed parameters to time, cost, and quality, ensuring the outcomes support the achievement of the RNLI’s annual goals, objectives, and strategic ambition through the development and delivery of the work.

About you

We are looking for someone who is a natural leader and a skilled communicator, with the ability to engage with all levels of an organisation, including a programme team of staff and/or volunteers, as well as senior and external stakeholders, ensuring they are committed, motivated, and work effectively together to deliver the functional strategy and plans.

You should have excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve project issues and mitigate risks and make the appropriate recommendations in order to maximise the benefit of the work undertaken.

Essential experience

- Significant practical experience delivering a number of large cross-function organisational programmes.
- Significant programme leadership skills and experience in driving cross-organisation improvement and delivering results against clear and measurable targets and standards.
- Substantial experience of leading, managing, developing, and/or motivating multi-disciplinary teams and collaborating across a variety of stakeholders
- Experience of change leadership and delivering programmes/projects across a diverse range of stakeholders
- Experience influencing and negotiating at the highest level.
- Substantial experience in managing performance against budgets, targets, and objectives defined by programme and organisational strategies and policies.

If you are someone who has proven project management and programme management experience, is highly organised with strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and multi-task while remaining calm and professional, apply today via the button shown.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales: DBS check; Scotland: Disclosure Scotland PVG; Northern Ireland: Access NI; Republic of Ireland: Garda Vetting; International: International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills, and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One