Programme Director – Local Land Charges

Job summary

Millions of people and businesses rely on HM Land Registry every year for guaranteed and trusted information on property ownership which covers properties worth around £8 trillion. Understanding and protecting the nation’s land ownership, and its potential use and value, is vital to a successful economy and a sustainable future.

The Local Land Charges programme is driving the large-scale transformation of local authorities’ data, digitising Local Land Charges information to create a single national digital register and make the home buying and selling process more efficient.

With the programme well established, the next phase will focus on delivering the remaining authorities while building on the data capability already created and exploring how AI and emerging technology can be used at scale to process, interpret and unlock greater value from this and other similar data.

Job description

As programme director for our multi-award-winning Local Land Charges initiative, you will have overall responsibility for managing the roadmap, delivery and risk management, leading a large in-house team and managing key commercial relationships, including the programme delivery partner and Local Authority IT suppliers. You will work closely with local and central government stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and help shape the next phase of digital and data transformation.

As our programme director, you will be responsible for:

• Provide strategic leadership across the full programme lifecycle, overseeing the roadmap, delivery, implementation, governance, risks, resources and benefits realisation, ensuring the Local Land Charges programme remains aligned with HM Land Registry’s strategic priorities.
• Lead a geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary team of 400+ colleagues, including the senior programme team, creating a high-performing, engaged and supportive environment that encourages innovation, professional development and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain strong senior stakeholder relationships across HM Land Registry, including Executive and Non-Executive Board members and key internal teams, while developing strategic partnerships with other government departments and 300+ local authorities to support successful programme delivery and wider transformation across the property sector.
• Lead the transition of the programme team, ensuring HMLR staff are effectively supported through changes to ways of working, while maintaining strong communication and engagement across the programme. Work closely with local authorities, technology suppliers and delivery partners to ensure operational readiness and successful completion of the programme.
• Lead commercial and financial management of the programme, overseeing budgets, suppliers, business cases, investment decisions and value for money, while managing key strategic delivery risks and ensuring resources and capability are secured at the appropriate stages.
• Contribute at Executive level to the wider transformation agenda, supporting Executive Committees and the Land Registry Board with effective programme governance, strategic decision-making and oversight, while identifying opportunities to build on the programme’s data transformation capability and deliver further economic benefits.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.

Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications:

• Must hold or be willing to work towards Major Projects Leadership Academy qualification.
• Project Leaders Programme, MSP Practitioner, or equivalent qualification or experience.

Essential Experience:

• Demonstrable experience and associated evidence successfully leading and managing high value, high profile, complex and multifaceted programmes and projects.
• Significant experience as a proactive and visible driving force behind transformational change, including customer and workforce transformation.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, with experience of cultivating successful relationships with external suppliers to drive value for money and flexibility
• Evidence of building strong business cases to secure resources and alignment of sponsorship from different parties
• Able to shape the business direction and strategy through anticipating and identifying trends and shifts in relevant technological, political, economic, social, and/or environmental developments.
• Significant leadership experience, including at executive board level, ideally in a heavily unionised environment.

Desirable Experience:

• Previous experience at programme director and executive level
• Data transformation experience
• Knowledge and understanding of central and local government environments

Please note that you will not be assessed against the desirable criteria during the recruitment process.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £95,000, HM Land Registry contributes £27,521 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

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