Birmingham, Leeds, London
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Are you passionate about transforming local infrastructure for communities across the UK?
Would you like the chance to use your project delivery skills to help support the Government’s Levelling Up agenda?
If so, we have an exciting leadership opportunity in the Local Infrastructure & Strategy Division and we would love to hear from you!
The Levelling Up Fund (LUF) is part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and the joint responsibility of the Department for Transport (DfT), the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT). Many of the transport LUF projects help support the Government’s growth mission and the Secretary of State’s priorities to transform infrastructure across the UK to tackle regional inequality, deliver greener transport and improve bus services for local people.
Our team works closely with Local Authorities and other scheme promoters to deliver 54 transport schemes, across a range of transport modes, with a combined value of over £1bn, funded through LUF. As the Local Infrastructure Lead, you will support scheme promoters to develop business cases for senior scrutiny and investment approval. This will require working collaboratively with a range of internal colleagues including transport policy, programme and sponsorship teams, analytical, finance, legal, project delivery, commercial and communications and external stakeholders, including Active Travel England, so you will need to be someone comfortable in forging positive working relationships.
The role provides a fantastic opportunity to use and develop your skills and experience in leadership, partnership working and project delivery that will make a real difference and enhance transport to poorly connected areas across the UK.
Responsibilities
You will:
About you
We are looking for a highly capable project management professional with strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to plan, organise and manage their time effectively, and can look beyond the norm and see the bigger picture.
You will be someone who can build rapport with key stakeholders both internally and externally and enjoys working collaboratively with people at all levels, including senior staff.
You should have a positive can-do attitude, comfortable working with a high degree of complexity and will display resilience dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty. You will need to be confident in providing constructive challenge where necessary to ensure the best outcomes are delivered.
You will either hold a Project Delivery qualification (such as PRINCE2,APM, PMQ or Managing Successful Programmes) at Practitioner level, be working towards, or be willing to gain the qualification once in role.
Experience of budget/financial management would be beneficial but not essential as training can be provided once in post.
Additional information:
You will have the option to be based in our London office attracting the London salary, or in Leeds or Birmingham attracting the National salary. If based in Leeds or Birmingham, occasional travel to our London office will be required for key meetings and team events.
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required and we also support and encourage team members to undertake external visits to Local Authorities to maintain vital relationships and see the delivery of local infrastructure investment taking place “on the ground”.
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Alongside your salary of £54,857, Department for Transport contributes £15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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