Overview
Enfield is a truly diverse borough, combining major regeneration opportunities, vibrant town centres and attractive parkland open spaces with inner city challenges. As one of the London’s largest and most ambitious regeneration initiatives, Meridian Water is delivering transformational change, creating thousands of new homes, new jobs and new infrastructure over a 25‑year programme.
To support this, Enfield Council has secured a £195 m Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) grant and we are now looking for an exceptional HIF Programme Manager to lead the delivery of this critical programme.
This senior leadership role will manage the HIF funding agreement and oversee the workstreams delivering £120 m of site infrastructure works, ensuring the programme remains compliant, coordinated and on track. You will manage our relationship with government and other senior stakeholders, lead strategic reporting and assurance, oversee programme‑wide risk management and performance, and provide direction to the HIF Client Project Manager and wider technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and direction for the entire HIF programme, ensuring delivery of grant conditions, strategic dependencies and programme outcomes.
- Lead and manage the £195 m HIF grant agreement, including compliance, reporting, payment milestones, change control and audit assurance.
- Set programme‑level priorities and approve key project documentation, providing oversight and decision‑making support to the Client Project Manager and wider teams.
- Oversee programme‑wide controls, including financial management, risk/issue/dependency management, consultant performance and integration across all HIF workstreams.
- Lead senior‑level stakeholder engagement, including MHCLG, GLA, Members, executive officers, statutory undertakers and major delivery partners.
Qualifications
- Significant experience leading large‑scale, multi‑year capital or infrastructure programmes, providing strategic oversight, integrating multiple workstreams and ensuring programme coherence.
- Proven track record of managing major government‑funded programmes, including grant compliance, performance reporting, payment milestones, audit readiness and relationship management with central government.
- Strong senior‑level stakeholder engagement skills, with experience influencing Members, executive officers, government bodies, statutory undertakers and development partners in a politically sensitive environment.
Disability Confident
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Benefits
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service; eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office‑based working for most roles.
- Interest‑free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services – a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their families.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax‑free bikes for work.
- 1 month’s paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children’s Social Care.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. If you have previously applied for this role within the past six months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
Meridian Water | A major 20‑year regeneration programme led by Enfield Council. Bringing 10,000 homes & 6,000 jobs to Enfield, next to the beautiful Lee Valley Regional Park.
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