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Programme Managers

The Programme Manager role is open to many interpretations that will vary depending upon company, sector and discipline. Roles, responsibilities, experience and remuneration vary immensely. Flexible Resources Associates provide you with the experience and subject matter experts for the role requirement for your organization.

Programme manager's role as ensuring that the strategic goals of the business are met. Through all these definitions there seems to be an agreement that the Programme Manager is managing more than a single thread of activity.

Flexible Resources Associates, programme managers are experts in Business Management, Benefits Realization, Change Management, Risk Management, People Management and Stakeholder Management. Programme Managers roles and responsibilities are to:

  • facilitate a supportive and cooperative environment for projects
  • manage programmes from launch to closedown
  • provide a framework for quality planning and evaluation, dissemination, and sustainability at programme level, and guide projects in developing plans in these areas
  • provide guidance and support for projects within the programme
  • coordinate the work of projects within the programme and across other programmes
  • arrange programme meetings and other events to brief projects and share their results
  • monitor the performance of projects through progress reports, site visits, etc
  • ensure that project deliverables and core project documents are submitted on time and manage the acceptance process
  • collate the learning of projects together with formative programme evaluation so that the progress and impact of the programmes can be monitored and ‘steered' dynamically

Organization and programme can expect transparent communication, quick response to queries, solution to all problems in short time, feedback on project plan and reports, quality planning framework and support in changing strategy or tactics as required by change in the environment.