Job Title: Programme Specialist (Consultant)

Location: London, hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Duration: Permanent

Start: March 2025

At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are ‘problem solvers’ who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.

Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy.

We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centered approach, and our work is having a material impact on people's lives.

Due to growth of an ongoing programme, we are recruiting a number of Programme Specialists to join our existing team. The Programme Specialists closely support one of our key customers, a newly formed scientific research funding agency, based in Central London.

This role will involve working closely with the Programme Directors, executive board and operations teams on programme delivery and operational support. As a consultancy partner, the Programme Specialist will provide delivery expertise to enable the Programme Directors to achieve their strategic objectives.

Role:

Accountabilities of the Consultant (Programme Specialist) will include:

Define and agree the approach, plan and resources required to deliver the scope of work
Work closely with Programme Directors, Product teams and external stakeholders, providing ongoing programme and project management support
Managing and reviewing project proposals, as well as necessary documentation
Interface with internal PMO teams and cross-collaborate with Pace core project and communications teams, understanding requirements from wider functions such as procurement and finance
Deliver effective and comprehensive RAID management and project reporting
Identify and manage any risks to the project
Plan, co-ordinate and facilitate stakeholder workshops and events

Required skills and experience:

Strong programme and project delivery expertise with excellent knowledge of Project Management tools and techniques, such as Prince2, APM, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall (ideally certified)
Experience working in fast-paced and unstructured environments, either within the scientific field, R&D, life sciences, healthcare, energy, or within start-ups / scale-ups
Experience in early-phase projects, particularly in establishing processes and project governance, onboarding systems and tools
Demonstrated experience of influencing key stakeholders across the organisation
Excellent engagement skills (including interviewing, facilitating, mediating and presenting) are essential

What’s in it for you?

An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.
A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi-weekly ‘continuous conversations’ programme.
Additional professional development is available through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case)
A competitive salary plus additional benefits including:
25 days’ annual leave, plus an additional days’ leave for your birthday
Annual leave purchase: buy up to 10 additional days of leave per annum
Reservist leave: up to 10 days of paid leave to fulfil reservist commitments
Private health insurance
AVIVA workplace pension scheme
AIG life assurance
Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme

Your Pace team:

Harnessing Human Autonomy is putting the needs of humans above all in process and system design.

We are a consultancy that helps organisations become aware of the human needs and behaviours within their operations, so that systems and processes can be designed and implemented to match. We automate the basics and empower the human to achieve more in the beckoning age of AI and automation. The results are a more engaged, agile and motivated workforce capable of greater efficiency and innovation.

Imagine If... you worked for a business that has integrity at its core, one that truly cares about its People, Corporate Social Responsibility and delivering real value to its customers.

At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.

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