Location
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Cross-borough travel required)

Hours
Full Time (Secondment Opportunity, 6 months term ending 31st March 2027)

Salary
£61,653 per annum

About the Role
Are you an experienced programme or project manager with a passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and families? We are seeking a Transformation Lead to lead the successful development and delivery of a new sub-regional service, Foster with South-West London. This role will provide strong programme management delivery and oversight, ensuring projects are well planned, effectively delivered and demonstrate clear outcomes and impact. You will work across organisational boundaries, bringing together colleagues and partners, managing risks and dependencies, monitoring budgets and grant conditions, and ensuring delivery remains focused on agreed objectives. This is a secondment opportunity hosted by Achieving for Children, representing the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Experience
- Proven experience managing and delivering complex projects or programmes, ideally including grant-funded programmes
- Experience developing and maintaining effective programme plans, monitoring delivery against milestones, outcomes, budgets and funding requirements
- Strong partnership and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across Children’s Services and with external organisations and stakeholders
- Ability to identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and barriers to delivery, escalating appropriately and supporting teams to find solutions
- Experience using data, insight and performance information to monitor progress, demonstrate impact and support continuous improvement
- Strong understanding of project and programme governance and ability to produce high-quality reports and updates for senior leaders, boards and funders

About you
- Excellent communication and engagement skills, able to bring people together around shared objectives and communicate complex information clearly
- Genuine interest in improving services for children, young people and families, with a commitment to keeping their needs and experiences at the centre of all you do
- Confident working across organisational boundaries and managing multiple stakeholders

Qualifications
Not specified, but relevant programme or project management qualifications would be advantageous.