Project and Policy Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

The post holder will provide high-quality Project Management and Policy Development activity for the WorkWell Partnership within the Population Health portfolio.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direction of a Senior Programme Manager or a member of the Population Health Senior Management Team, the post holder will:

• Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a portfolio of population health activities aimed improving health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
• Work with key stakeholders to co-design and implement new policy and strategy that relates to population health and inequalities, across a range of relevant business areas.
• Take direct responsibility for the successful delivery of all elements of activities to agreed levels of time, budget, and quality.
• Take on new responsibilities as need arises and show flexibility in managing a portfolio of population health activities.
• Manage change effectively by working with relevant individuals, teams, and stakeholders.

COMMUNICATION

Develop and maintain effective relationships with senior officers and other key stakeholders from a wide variety of partner organisations, ensuring clear and effective channels of communication.

Liaise with commissioning teams (commissioning, finance, performance, and quality etc.) to ensure a strategic and tactical approach to commissioning is taken.

Co-ordinate high levels of effective engagement with a range of partners, including the public, to ensure projects are effectively implemented and policies are appropriate and effective.

Undertake effective stakeholder mapping and engagement planning.

Work with a range of key stakeholders to further the programme ambitions.

Actively engage people and communities.

Build strong and meaningful relationships with the Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sectors.

INFORMATION RESOURCES, ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING

Provide and receive highly complex information including negotiating with senior stakeholders and groups on difficult and controversial issues.

Make decisions autonomously, when required, working to tight and often changing timescales.

Assess and refer on difficult issues to senior management, as appropriate

Produce options for resolution of highly complex issues to assist effective decision-making, monitor interdependencies and risks between projects and escalating risks of potential conflicts where necessary.

Take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.

PLANNING & ORGANISATION

Work beyond organisational silos and provide system leadership

Support the coordination of a range of complex projects on time, to budget and of the right quality, ensuring that regular reporting arrangements are in place so that appropriate reports can be submitted to relevant boards and key stakeholders

Provide overall project management for a range of projects and activities, using effective methodology to ensure projects and activities are delivered on time, within budget and to the required standard.

Proactively utilise business management tools and solutions to effectively coordinate resources and individual project budgets and expenditure forecasts to ensure delivery of the project to an agreed budget and providing updates on a regular basis.

Effectively manage project risk through effective analysis, mitigation, and contingency planning.

Support the planning process for determining future priorities.

Support the development of funding bids to a range of funding sources.

Ensure that projects and activities are defined and that they contribute to the Partnerships organisational goals and programme ambitions.

Develop business cases as required and to agreed deadlines.

Write reports as required and to agreed deadlines.

PATIENT/CLIENT CARE

Actively engage people and communities.

POLICY & SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

Deputise for the Senior Managers within the function where appropriate.

Work with key stakeholders to co-design and implement new policy and strategy that relates to population health and inequalities, across a range of relevant business areas.

Co-design new ways of work and new policies and strategies

Work beyond organisational silos and provide system leadership

Use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to key stakeholders, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.

Independently identify and interpret national policy

FINANCIAL & PHYSICAL RESOURCES

Co-ordinate effective project finances both in terms of the resources to plan and implement the programme and to help realise any financial outputs required from the programme e.g., savings and efficiencies.

Undertake commissioning and procurement activities as appropriate and required.

Provide direction to programme resources, partners, and key stakeholders, defining work, ensuring deadlines are understood and adhered to and that project objectives are clearly articulated and understood.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Take on the line management responsibilities for lower grade roles, if required.

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT & AUDIT

Review and interpret complex data, research, intelligence, and insight and use this to enable informed decision-making and future action planning.

Be accountable for the management of all project documentation, including effective record keeping and version control of project documentation.

Person Specification

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in a related area.

Essential

• Grade, years experience

Desirable

• Qualified in recognised programme management methodology.

Experience of working in a field relevant to Population Health and tackling inequalities.

Essential

• Years working in relevant field

Desirable

• Experience of working in a political environment

Experience

Essential

• Experience of successfully managing and delivering successful projects using a structured project management process and project management methods, principles, techniques, and tools.

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking engagement with the public

Competency

Essential

• Ability to solve problems of a complex nature and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under high pressure

Knowledge

Essential

• Awareness of the relationship between NHS Greater Manchester, GM Combined Authority, and localities.

Competency

Essential

• Able to manage conflict and try to persuade others of own point of view and defend own position with logical and unemotional arguments.

Competency

Essential

• Ability to solve problems of a complex nature and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under high pressure

Experience

Essential

• Experience of being responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

Address

Tootal Building or other central Manchester location / Hybrid Working

Oxford Street

Manchester

M1 6EU

Employer's website

https://www.gmsharedservices.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)