Location
Hybrid – minimum two days per week onsite (Civic Centre or Meridian Water site), Greater London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
MM2 £55,542 – £70,452 with a market factor supplement of up to £75,000 (including a £4,548 Market Factor Supplement reviewed annually)

About the Role
Enfield is a truly diverse borough, combining major regeneration opportunities, vibrant town centres and attractive parkland open spaces with inner city challenges. Meridian Water is one of London’s largest and most ambitious regeneration initiatives, delivering transformational change by creating thousands of new homes, jobs and infrastructure over a 25-year programme.
Enfield Council has secured a £195m Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) grant and is seeking 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 £120m of site infrastructure works, ensuring the programme remains compliant, coordinated and on track. You will manage relationships with Government and 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.
This is a unique opportunity to influence one of the UK’s most significant regeneration programmes. The successful candidate will bring outstanding relationship management skills, strong programme-level leadership experience, and a deep understanding of how major infrastructure schemes progress through design, procurement and delivery.
We work at pace and pride ourselves on a motivated and dynamic team culture. We seek someone enthusiastic, committed and highly organised who wants to contribute to a nationally significant regeneration programme and deliver real impact for residents and communities.
If you have the ambition, leadership capability and technical insight to play a central role in one of the country’s largest regeneration projects, we would love to hear from you.

Experience
- Significant experience leading large-scale, multi-year capital or infrastructure programmes, providing strategic oversight, integrating multiple workstreams and ensuring programme coherence.
- Proven track record 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.

About you
You are a confident programme leader with strong strategic oversight and decision-making skills. You can navigate complexity, influence senior stakeholders and drive delivery in a high-profile, fast-paced regeneration environment. You are enthusiastic, committed, highly organised and motivated to contribute to a nationally significant regeneration programme.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications and experience in programme or project management, infrastructure delivery or regeneration are desirable to support your leadership of this major programme.