Project Manager – Commissioning & Programmes

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO4 – PO6
Salary: £47,532 – £55,620 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
Working Hours: 36 Hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 3rd August 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 11th August 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The successful candidate will lead the planning, delivery and reporting of the programme, ensuring it meets critical success factors, complies with legal requirements, and achieves set targets within a large and complex stakeholder environment.
Key Responsibilities:

• Implement high-quality project management across Haringey’s Children’s Commissioning and Programmes department and Children Services.
• Develop collaborative relationships with key project stakeholders, project sponsors and external partners.
• Work with the Strategic Programme Lead, project team and other key stakeholders to agree key deliverables, timescales, approvals pathways and develop and maintain project management artefacts
• Undertaking control practices including tracking project plans, risks, issues, change control, lessons learned, comms and engagement.

About the Team

As a Project Manager, you will report to the Strategic Programme Lead within Children’s Services. This programme’s activity encompasses:

• Strategic Thinking: We value those who can think strategically and provide innovative ideas to improve our service.
• Collaborative Working: We operate with a “One Children’s Team” approach, working together with internal and external partners to achieve our objectives.
• Performance Management: We emphasize managing performance to ensure high-quality projects and services that offer the best value.
• Cultural Change: We are driving cultural change and new ways of working to align with our corporate and service priorities.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent leadership and management skills to drive change and innovation.
• Extensive knowledge of children’s services and a strong understanding of legal requirements.
• Commitment to improving the lives of children and families in Haringey.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities to work effectively in a complex stakeholder landscape.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify challenges and create solutions.
• Experience in managing and delivering projects to achieve high performance, with flexibility to handle competing priorities.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a passion for making a difference in the community.
• Ability to thrive in an outcome-driven team with a can-do mindset.

If you have experience in delivering high-quality projects and programmes to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families, then we would love to hear from you. We offer a great place to develop a career that is yours to own. If you are interested or would like an informal discussion, please contact Chris Carroll via email: chris.carroll@haringey.gov.uk.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk