Director of Programme - IUKWFH

Location

Coventry | United Kingdom

Job description

The Vacancy

We are looking for a Programme Director for the Innovate UK Workforce Foresighting Hub to join our Training Team based in Coventry. This role is a fixed-term contract, ending March 2025.

The Innovate UK Workforce Foresighting Hub (IUKWFH) project is a 2-year, nationally high profile programme of work, funded by Innovate UK and sub-contracted to The MTC, through the HVMC. There are several key deliverables to this programme, not least of which is to have ensured that, working with all the catapult centres across the UK, we will have completed more than 48 future skills foresighting cycles and published all corresponding reports. 

The main purpose of this role is, therefore, to head-up and lead the strategy to achieve the strategic objectives, manage strategic skills and education stakeholders and an extensive operational team of employees and consultants to ensure that the programme achieves all the agreed contractual terms and to ensure all stakeholders are informed of progress at every step of the process.  The programme’s success and yours, will have a positive impact on MTC’s brand with national stakeholders and key funders: IUK, HVMC, Gatsby, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) and others.  This is necessary for further funding of this programme and other skills programmes with the aforementioned strategic stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

As Programme Director you will:

• Set the strategic direction for the IUKWFH programme, in line with agreement with IUK and HVMC.
• Optimise the utilisation of the IUK funding to drive value for money while increasing the sustainable capability of MTC and the manufacturing sector.
• Accountable for the funding budget spend to ensure that all stakeholders have confidence in the financial management of the programme.
• Build an organisation that has the ability to provide an ongoing and profitable fore-sighting service to industry after the project has ended.
• Ensure that the programme governance is best in class and remain under review to ensure optimum performance.
• Implement processes and mechanisms to deliver the strategic outcomes. Motivate and coach the team that report to you to overachieve on their own and the organisation’s objectives.
• Instil a coaching culture within the organisation to drive high performance so that colleagues give additional discretionary effort.
• Monitor and control the progress of the programme at a strategic level.
• Deal with issues as they arise and escalate those requiring, decision-making from more senior stakeholders.
• Lead a diverse team of MTC employees and external consultants ensuring clarity on accountabilities, holding colleagues to account, and managing change as and when relevant.
• Chair the programme and project boards.

Person Specification

We are looking for a candidate who is/has:

• Commercially aware, customer and quality focused.
• Experience in using labour market data.
• Results oriented with a positive CAN-DO approach and focused on solutions rather than problems.
• Customer focused and logical/process mind-set.
• Remains calm, positive and constructive under pressure
• Has the presence to both lead and/or participate in team discussions as required.
• Approachable and empathetic in manner.
• Reliable and dependable, able to flex to keeps to schedules.
• Personal credibility, engaging and empathetic.
• Demonstrate a background of self-directed continuous development.
• Highly articulate, highly presentable, excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Leader, team builder and team player with an influential and collaborative style.
• Ability to travel throughout the UK, with a regular presence at our Ansty Park Head Office.

For more information regarding the role, please view the job description attached.

About The MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and  respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe. 

The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies. 

Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness. 

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future. 

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

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