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Job Families Programme Manager
Job Description
About the role
This role will have programme responsibilities for the Job Families project – ensuring we have a project plan, clear milestones, decision making governance. It will work closely with the HR job families project lead to implement the job families framework by the deadline of April 2026.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Successful track record of monitoring delivery of complex and large-scale programmes, working with varied stakeholders.
- Knowledge and understanding of, and ability to, operate successfully at a senior level in a complex organisation or political environment.
- Programme management skills and experience of complex programmes (essential)
Assistant Change Project Manager
Job Description
This role exists to support the planning and management of designated business change projects to time, budget and specification as efficiently, effectively and economically as possible. This will include taking the lead on specific work packages as well as supporting on larger projects. It involves the planning and coordination of Change Management activities, partnering with the business to translate the programme into changes on the frontline. It will provide Change Readiness support, working with the business to provide support during implementation. It is responsible for assessing and monitoring the impact that changes will have on people and supporting benefits realisation. These will be pan-TfL Change projects possibly affecting a wide area of the business or range of processes. Work packages within these may look at specific aspects of delivery, for example within contained business areas or for defined processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Change Project Manager in ensuring that all projects have clearly defined and measurable business benefits, with credible plans in place to deliver these, and ensure that these benefits are realised through the project delivery
- Assist in ensuring change and cost control processes and due governance is being adhered to
- Assist in tracking, monitoring and reporting on progress to relevant boards, stakeholders and others as required and escalate unresolved issues, risks and dependencies at the earlier possible opportunity to enable management oversight and decision making
- Work with key stakeholders to understand and agree project briefs, budgets, acceptance criteria and business cases for projects so that all developments are strategically aligned
- Supporting the embedding and use of business change tools, processes and measures, and supporting the creation of appropriate governance to support the changes. Lead these activities on small projects or discrete elements of larger projects
- Assist with project planning and manage discrete work packages, to ensure successful delivery on time, budget and specification
- Work with the business to implement appropriate metrics to track effective implementation. Monitor and report on progress using these metrics
- Assist in ensuring projects are closed down effectively upon completion, including transferring knowledge effectively from third parties to in-house teams and gather and manage lessons learned as part of continuous business improvement.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge:
- Good knowledge of programme and project management and change management tools, techniques and methodologies
- Some understanding of management principles
- Recognised programme and project management qualifications (Managing Successful Programmes and APM Professional or equivalent) and/or membership of APM or equivalent. (Desirable)
- Some knowledge of TfL’s Programme & Project Management Methodology, and awareness of business and process improvement approaches and techniques
- Knowledge of Change Management tools, techniques and methodologies
Skills:
- Ability to build working relationships and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Good ability to envision project outcomes from initial briefs
- Good stakeholder communication and negotiation skills
- Good ability to identify and evaluate options, solve problems and make rational, evidence based decisions
- Ability to plan and deliver individual work packages
- Ability to develop and manage a prioritised work programme based to time and cost. Understands the need for change and its benefits, with the ability to establish the impact of changes and successfully plan and manage through to transition.
Experience
- Experience in project managing complex business change
- Broad experience of a variety of project management methodologies and tools Some experience in dealing with Senior Managers
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team drawn from multiple backgrounds / organisations
- Experience of working on large transformational change programmes successfully delivering Business Change where there are multiple complex interfaces
Corporate Performance and Governance Manager
Job Description:
You will be part of OPDC’s Corporate Governance team. We oversee the Corporation’s governance function, ensuring that our arrangements around corporate performance, risk and governance are robust and effective and making sure that OPDC operates in an open and transparent way. You will have a role to play in advising and supporting colleagues across the organisation, at all levels, about our procedures and processes. This will include supporting our Board, committees and senior management team. You will have a good understanding of governance, be able to analyse and interpret information and be able to prepare good quality written work. The link below will take you to the full job description and person specification.
Portfolio Sponsor
Job Description
Transport is at the heart of the greatest economic, social, and environmental challenges the world faces. And London is one of the world’s greatest cities. The work of Transport for London’s Investment Planning (IP) directorate touches every corner of the business – we play an integral role in the development and outcomes of projects that will help shape London.
We now have opportunities to join our team as a Portfolio Sponsor.
The Portfolio Sponsor position will ensure portfolio outcomes are aligned with the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and TfL Business Plan. This requires oversight across their respective portfolios, which are subject to a high level of interest and scrutiny from the public, boroughs, stakeholders and City Hall. The role also offers an opportunity to shape common processes and to support robust investment decision-making – helping Transport for London choose the right investments to deliver its targets and ambitions across its entire transport network to create:
- A safer network
- A greener network
- A more accessible network
- A better quality, more reliable, and more efficient network
As well as those who share our profession, we want people around the world to continue to look at London and its iconic transport network admiringly.
We have an exciting opportunity within the Environment & Technology team. The role will co-ordinate a strategic view of the Technology Portfolio, which renews and improves TfL’s technology estate to support the operation of our services, the safety of our colleagues and customers, and drives the use of sustainable travel options. The portfolio includes a wide range of schemes from systems to tackle fare evasion and operate TfL’s cycle hire scheme, to new technology trials to better manage the road network and delivering improvements in safety and security for our customers and staff. In this role you’d be responsible for oversight of a c.£240m budget per annum, working with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure TfL is delivering value for money and to its strategic outcomes.
What are we looking for?
A good Portfolio Sponsor has a passion for the role and a willingness to learn, but we are also looking for the following qualities and abilities in you:
Key Accountabilities
- Ensuring integration within the portfolio, across the Investment Delivery Planning Directorate and with other departments within TfL, you’ll be responsible for managing and maintaining internal and external stakeholder relationships; deputise for the Lead Portfolio Sponsor or Lead Sponsor and line manage if required
- You will also own all key information and reporting relating to the portfolio, including milestones, finance and budgets, risks and issues and benefit monitoring, providing briefings to the Lead Portfolio Sponsor and senior management
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Essential)
- Highly numerate, good IT skills, detail conscious and well organised (Essential)
- The ability to engage effectively with senior managers in TfL (Essential)
- Ability to work in cross business teams, resolving conflict and motivating and leading matrix teams (Essential)
- Able to organise and present information to senior stakeholder groups and recommendations to senior management (Essential)
- Have the ability to influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders at senior levels (Essential)
- Ability to prioritise multiple requirements to achieve business outcomes (Essential)
Knowledge
- Degree level education or equivalent experience (Essential)
- Considerable knowledge of Project Sponsorship in the public sector (Essential)
- Thorough knowledge of business case development, project requirements setting, outcome definition and benefits management (Essential)
- A full understanding of TfL strategy, policies, standards and guidelines including corporate governance (Highly desirable)
- Holds or working towards a recognised professional qualification (e.g. APM) (Desirable)
Experience
- Experience of delivering or sponsoring projects/programmes or investment portfolios in large complex, regulated organisations where there are multiple interfaces, and delivering to time, budget and scope (Essential)
- Significant experience of using diplomacy to influence colleagues and support external delivery partners at a senior level in achieving joint objectives (Essential)
- Experience of undertaking project governance and reporting on programme / project progress to support senior level decision making (Essential)
- Experience of project or programme prioritisation, balancing conflicting requirements and demands, including funding, time and resource (Essential)
If you would like more information on this vacancy, please email: estherdavidson@tfl.gov.uk
Interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place from 28 July 2025.
Senior Policy & Programme Officer – ECO Coordinator
Job Description
About the role
ECO is a process that supports low-income and vulnerable and fuel poor households through installation of insulation and heating measures. ECO4 is the latest phase of this. ECO4 Flex is a household referral mechanism within the wider ECO4 Scheme, which enables Councils to widen the eligibility criteria for ECO, allowing them to tailor energy efficiency schemes to their respective sector.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, organised and highly motivated, ideally with expertise in the ECO scheme, delivering programmes and a strong knowledge of the built environment and or home energy efficiency and renewable energy delivery approaches, policy and financing mechanisms. You will have excellent written and oral communication skills, a well-informed and creative approach to problem-solving, the ability to operate in a busy and complex political environment and experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.
The post holder will have a good record of project and programme development and delivery and will be required to contribute to a portfolio of programmes built around the key objectives of the Energy Unit.
What your day will look like
- Developing opportunities to expand the uptake of ECO in London
- Establish and maintain communications on technical and policy matters
- Maintaining up-to-date awareness of legislative, technical and policy changes
- Provide advice and briefings
- Working with internal and external stakeholders
- Managing external service provision
- Liaising with Ofgem
- Contributing to the wider domestic decarbonisation agenda
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Strong organisational skills.
- A track record of effective project management, including strategizing and initiative taking.
- Ability to liaise and build relationships with multiple stakeholders to drive growth in a project.
- Ability to analyse and interpret environmental issues in relation to urban areas, their causes, effects, and possible solutions, utilising software to an advanced level to assist in such analysis.
- Evidence of success in undertaking project-based work and preparing clear and concise reports, presentations and briefings on complex and sensitive issues for a range of different audiences.
- Knowledge of the Energy Company Obligation programme and London energy efficiency needs
Senior Project Officer – Energy Data
Job Description
About the role
The Mayor wants to make London a zero-carbon city by 2030, while at the same time protecting the most disadvantaged by tackling fuel poverty. Londoners currently face one of the greatest cost of living challenges we have ever seen due to record energy prices. Through his programmes, the Mayor is scaling up energy efficiency retrofit, increasing renewable power generation, helping to cut energy bills, reducing fuel poverty, and planning for the smart flexible energy system of the future. This post will play a crucial role in achieving this.
The post holder will support the delivery of a portfolio of environment and energy projects and programmes through data analysis and advice. We expect the post holder to provide cross-cutting data analysis for the Energy Unit to inform policy, strategy and programme delivery. The role will also entail managing two GLA owned datasets (e.g., London Building Stock Model, London Solar Opportunity Map) and delivering improvements to these datasets in order to better to support the delivery of energy projects from both within and beyond the Energy Unit and the GLA.
We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and knowledge.
What your day will look like
- Lead on energy data analysis for the Energy Unit to inform policy design, project delivery and reporting/evaluation of net zero projects across the Energy Unit’s portfolio.
- Maintain and manage the London Building Stock Model and the London Solar Opportunity Map – including scoping out potential improvements, stakeholder engagement and delivery.
- Work closely with the Local Area Energy Planning team and GIS officers in the Infrastructure Coordination Service team to ensure coordination and effective data sharing/use across policies and programmes.
- Engage with and support Energy Unit and other GLA teams to use energy-related datasets in their work.
- Source, select and appoint consultants and contractors to carry out relevant work in accordance with relevant public procurement and GLA procedures, policies and Code of Ethics and Standards and ensure delivery within the allocated budget/to time/quality.
- Manage the activities of programme and project delivery contractors, act as required to achieve delivery within the allocated budgets and contracted time-scales and standards of performance in respect of quality/specification.
- Build new, and maintain existing partnerships, to assist in delivery of initiatives to implement the Mayor’s policies and programmes.
- Provide advice and where necessary responses, written and oral, to the Mayor and his staff, senior managers, Members of the Assembly, and Functional Bodies, GLA staff, government departments, London-based and national organisations on environmental and energy matters, making recommendations on policy and strategy options.
- Present the results of the work on the Mayor’s policies, objectives and concerns at conferences, seminars and meetings to external bodies and organisations.
- Utilise a flexible approach to work in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, and participating in multi-disciplinary, cross-department and cross-organisational groups and project teams
Technical requirements/experience/qualifications
To be considered for the role you must meet the following criteria:
Essential
1. Strong numerical and analytical skills, demonstrated through a degree in a quantitative field (e.g., mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science) or equivalent professional experience.
2. Proven ability to analyse and interpret large, complex datasets to generate actionable insights.
3. Proven ability to innovate and devise new ways of generating insights from data.
4. Experience translating business or user needs into data-driven solutions, particularly for non-technical stakeholders.
5. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly, to a range of audiences, through written reports, presentations, and data visualisations.
6. Proficiency in data analysis and visualisation tools, such as Excel, Python, R, or GIS platforms (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS).
Desirable
1. Experience processing, analysing and gaining insights from energy data.
2. Understanding of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and how this influences data processing and data sharing.
3. Ability to quickly research and learn new data analysis tools and techniques.
4. Knowledge of environmental and energy issues, energy systems and decarbonisation technology.
Senior Project Officer – Refugee Resettlement
Job Description
About the role
The role will be the single point of contact for London, working with regional stakeholders to support the coordination of refugee resettlement in London. This includes working with boroughs and central government departments to generate new offers of support, provide advice and guidance on policy and practice, help resolve challenges, and enable strong partnership working.
This role is covering a sabbatical and the post holder would need to start the position ideally on 1 September 2025 with the contract ending on 31 August 2026.
If you have any questions about this kindly contract Mark Winterburn mark.winterburn@london.gov.uk
What your day will look like
1. You will extensively engage with central government, London boroughs and other partners to support refugee resettlement policy development and operational processes, to enable the successful placement and integration journey for those on the Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP), UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) and Mandate scheme. This will include providing frequent policy and operational advice and guidance to borough officers and central government to enable collaborative working across all parties.
2. You will support central government, London boroughs and lead organisations with the further development of Community Sponsorship and Communities for Afghans schemes in London, building on national and international best practice. This will include developing and implementing relevant policies, processes, structures and resources to support community sponsorship and resettlement.
3. You will line manage a Project Officer, providing oversight and support with managing resource and capacity.
4. You will work closely with the Project Officer to develop and manage offers of support for refugee resettlement from boroughs. This includes property offers and pledges.
5. You will manage reactive and competing demands and requests from stakeholders, responding to both short- and long-term policy changes or operational challenges.
6. You will participate in multi-disciplinary, cross-department and cross-organisational groups and project teams both internal and external to the GLA relating to refugee resettlement and migration.
7. Through strong relationship management, you will provide support and guidance to London boroughs, sustaining a network of boroughs (and other stakeholders where appropriate) to enable peer learning and cross-organisational collaboration. This will include chairing regional meetings with central government, local authorities and other partners. You will set out the case for improvements to existing resettlement schemes to central Government team based on feedback from participating boroughs.
8. You will provide insight, recommendations and briefings to team management and Mayoral advisors, including opportunities to align this workstream with other policy areas (such housing, skills and employment workstreams).
9. You will develop short- and long-term communications and/ or events plans to promote refugee resettlement in London, and provide content for external press releases, website updates and speeches.
10. You will promote and enable equality of opportunities and promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of London’s communities and the communities you are working to serve.
Skills, knowledge and experience
Please note that only technical requirements and competencies designated ‘Essential’ will be used to shortlist applications.
Technical requirements/experience/qualifications
1. Experience of effective stakeholder engagement with the statutory sectors, communities, civil society, and businesses, and operating in a politically sensitive environment. – Essential
2. Experience of working to resettle refugees or support refugee integration, and understanding of the opportunities and challenges for resettlement in London. – Essential
3. Evidence of using planning and project management skills to deliver multi-agency projects effectively within set timescales and budget.
4. Ability to assimilate and analyse data and produce key recommendations to a high standard, both written and orally, including supporting organisations to make informed strategic decisions.