Job description

Role purpose

The Programme Lead, Goals, Missions and Business Improvement is to support the delivery of the following strategic priorities of Scope:

Goals

• Transform attitudes
• Closing the disability employment gap
• Ending the disability price tag

Story of change, vision

• Insights and impact driven
• Known for what we do
• Confident colleagues

Under our new strategy ‘An Equal Future’ Scope will be trying new ways to achieve social change. The Programme Lead for Goals, Missions and Business Improvement will be leading on introducing, and improving, these new ways of working. 

You will help Scope make sure our interventions are evidence-based and impact-driven, whilst moving at pace.

You will design and implement new processes to help Scope live it’s Story of Change. This will include designing and running strategy workshops to help us develop our strategy and plan our activity to deliver it.

To deliver our strategy, you will introduce agile ways of working and help the organisation feel comfortable with these new ways of working. You will work to embed agile approaches to strategy delivery, supporting goal groups and missions to:

• be evidence based
• shape activity collaboratively
• move at pace
• test and learn
• embrace failure

You will work to continuously evolve and improve our ways of working for maximum impact.

You’ll help colleagues understand the value of collaboration, trust, flexibility and respect for each other’s expertise.

An important aspect of the role will be stakeholder management. You will thrive by collaborating and working with others. You will be excited to unlock the expertise of all our colleagues.

To be successful in this role you will be passionate about equality and driving change. You’ll be keen to use your skills in workshop design, stakeholder management and continuous improvement to help us be an agile, impact-driven organisation. 

Accountable to

Head of Programmes

Main responsibilities – what you are responsible for delivering   

At Scope, we work together, in our teams and across all teams. Together, we commit to being collaborative, trusting and respectful. To being open about our work and to being flexible and open to change.  And to building our confidence by improving what we do by developing and learning, continuously.

• process mapping and implementation
• introducing agile (and helping others understand it)
• stakeholder management at all levels of the organisation
• project management, and working closely with the Head of Planning
• continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback
• support teams to embed impact measurement and continuous learning approaches
• supporting strategy development with goal group workshops and sub-groups
• supporting recruitment to Mission Based Teams
• communicating ways of working and any learnings or changes through various channels (including at ELT, broadcasts, department meetings and through newsletters)
• contribute strategic thinking and new ideas to help the organisation focus on, and achieve its goals
• support teams to embed impact measurement and continuous learning approaches

Main relationships, internal and external stakeholders

• ELT
• Head of Planning
• Goal Groups
• Mission Based Teams

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

•  Experience in leading and managing complex programmes for social change.
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops and groups to explore evidence, ideas and make strategic decisions.
• Introducing cross-functional planning processes which ensure strategy is translated into delivery.
• Established mechanisms for learning and improving on programmes and organisation-wide ways of working.
• Excellent prioritisation and project management skills. Knowledge of project/programme management including progress and risk tracking.
• Ability to work flexibly to manage multiple activities and deadlines.
• Exceptional at building relationships, influencing and communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with an ability to structure arguments effectively and communicate complex messages.
• Have a high level of personal initiative and confidence to generate ideas and drive impact.
• A solution-focused approach and can-do attitude.
• Experience and knowledge of agile working.
• Experience driving strategic change across an organisation.
• Ability to see the bigger picture, pick up new ideas and learn quickly.
• Ability to apply strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills.

Desirable

• Understanding of the social model of disability.
•  Lived experience of disability.
• Experience and knowledge of introducing new ways of working on an organisation-wide level.

Skills and competencies

Essential

• Passionate about equality and driving change.
• Skilled in workshop design, stakeholder management and continuous improvement.
• Ability to embed agile approaches to strategy delivery.
• Ability to shape activity collaboratively.
• Ability to move at pace.
• Ability to test and learn, and implement a culture of agile
• Ability to embrace failure, and implement processes to nurture this
• Ability to continuously evolve and improve ways of working for maximum impact.
• Ability to help colleagues understand the value of collaboration, trust, flexibility and respect for each other’s expertise.
• Ability to unlock the expertise of all colleagues.

Desirable

•  Ability to manage relationships with external suppliers.
• Ability to work on systematic and RAPID reviews.
• Ability to use evaluation techniques and research methods.