Director - Programme

Job summary

We are recruiting for two Programme Director roles within Homes England, both of which will play a critical role in delivering the Agency’s ambitious transformation agenda. Working alongside Ian Workman, Chief National Officer, and Amy Pritchard, Director of Enterprise Portfolio and Change, the successful candidates will lead complex, high-profile programmes that are central to achieving Homes England’s strategic objectives.

These are rare opportunities to join Homes England at a pivotal moment, leading major programmes with significant organisational and national impact. Both roles require exceptional strategic leadership, stakeholder management and programme delivery expertise across large-scale public sector transformation.

The two roles are:

• Programme Director – Help to Buy Transformation
  Responsible for transforming the Agency’s existing Help to Buy model, including public sector procurement, government financial products and the delivery of GDS-compliant customer-facing services.
• Programme Director – Integrated Change Programme
  Responsible for driving organisation-wide operating model reform, including extensive systems, technology and data change across the Agency.

Both roles will lead highly complex, interdependent programmes, ensuring effective governance, commercial oversight, benefits realisation and successful delivery outcomes.

Job description

The Programme Director will set the strategic direction for highly complex transformation programmes, leading the delivery of interdependent workstreams that support Homes England’s long-term strategy and business objectives.

The role holder will provide visible senior leadership across major change programmes, ensuring robust governance, financial discipline, effective assurance and successful programme delivery. They will work collaboratively across the Agency and wider government landscape to drive organisational improvement and deliver lasting impact.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership, vision and direction across large-scale transformation programmes.
• Lead the development, refinement and approval of programme business cases through complex governance frameworks.
• Establish and continuously improve governance, assurance and commercial management arrangements.
• Lead the successful design and delivery of programmes, ensuring outcomes and benefits are realised.
• Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, creating the capability, capacity and culture required for successful delivery.
• Manage large and complex programme budgets, ensuring value for money and effective financial control.
• Lead commercial oversight of suppliers and delivery partners across the programme lifecycle.
• Identify, assess and mitigate strategic and operational risks, issues and dependencies.
• Oversee programme controls, performance management and transition into business-as-usual operations.
• Build strong relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, including cross-government partners.
• Promote proactive, transparent communication and collaborative working across the organisation.

Person specification

You will be an experienced senior programme delivery professional with a proven track record of leading large-scale, complex public sector transformation programmes involving people, process and technology change.

You will be comfortable operating in highly complex environments, influencing at senior levels and leading organisations through significant transformation. You will bring strong commercial acumen, excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire and motivate high-performing teams.

Additional expertise required for each role

Programme Director – Help to Buy Transformation

We are seeking candidates with:

• Strong experience in public sector procurement
• Experience working with government financial products
• Experience delivering GDS-compliant customer-facing services

Programme Director – Integrated Change Programme

We are seeking candidates with:

• A strong track record of delivering organisation-wide operating model transformation
• Extensive experience leading programmes involving significant systems and data change

Please clearly state within your application which role you are applying for and demonstrate how your experience aligns to the relevant requirements.

Person specification

Essential qualifications and experience

• Recognised P3M practitioner certification (e.g. MSP, APM Chartered Project Professional) or equivalent.
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent senior leadership experience within the public sector.
• Extensive experience leading large-scale, complex business change and transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of programme delivery methodologies including waterfall, agile and hybrid approaches.
• Experience establishing and operating governance, assurance and financial management frameworks for major programmes.
• Significant experience managing complex programme budgets and resource allocation decisions.
• Strong commercial management expertise, including supplier strategy, contract oversight and procurement.
• Extensive experience managing strategic risks, issues and dependencies across complex organisational environments.
• Demonstrable experience in benefits realisation planning, measurement and long-term impact assessment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience influencing senior leaders and cross-government partners.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and creating inclusive, high-performing environments.
• Familiarity with user-centred design, GDS Service Standards and DDaT principles.

Essential skills and behaviours

The successful candidates will demonstrate expert capability in:

• Programme and project management
• Governance and assurance
• Business case development
• Benefits management
• Planning and delivery oversight
• Procurement and sourcing
• Budgeting and financial management
• Risk management
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership and resource management

You will also demonstrate:

• Strong strategic thinking and decision-making capability
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Resilience and adaptability in complex environments
• A collaborative leadership style
• Commitment to continuous improvement and organisational learning
• A strong commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk