Your role
Adult skills has a vital role to play in helping Greater Manchester residents build confidence, progress in work, access new opportunities and support the city-region’s economy.
As Strategic Programme Officer, you will help support the delivery and development of adult skills activity across Greater Manchester. A key part of the role will be building strong relationships with colleagues, colleges, training providers, local authorities, employers, community partners and government departments, helping to make sure delivery is well planned, joined up and focused on improving outcomes for adult learners.
This is a varied role with stakeholder engagement and commissioning at its heart. You could be working with providers to understand delivery challenges, bringing partners together around shared priorities, supporting commissioning activity, shaping guidance, preparing briefings or reviewing progress against outcomes. It would suit someone who enjoys working across different organisations, building trusted relationships and helping turn strategy into practical adult skills delivery that makes a difference for residents, communities and employers across Greater Manchester.
About you
We are looking for someone who is organised, collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to build positive relationships with a range of stakeholders and the project management skills to help keep work moving forward.
You may have experience in adult education, skills funding, provider delivery, programme support, policy, commissioning or partnership working. You may also bring transferable experience from another setting. What matters is that you can communicate clearly, manage competing priorities, keep track of actions and risks, and work confidently with different stakeholders to understand issues, share evidence and support good decisions.
You will bring care, curiosity and attention to detail, alongside a willingness to learn and support others. We value people who are collaborative, inclusive and calm when things are busy; people who can work independently but also know when to involve others. If you are motivated by public service, enjoy working with partners and want to help adult skills provision respond to the needs of residents, communities and employers, we would like to hear from you.
About us
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people’s age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
Hybrid working
This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.
Our offer
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here: greater.jobs
Basic DBS: The role holder will be subject to an Basic level check by the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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