Interviews to take place week commencing 21st October 2024
2 Year Fixed Term Contract
Your role:
GMCA is looking for an experienced and dynamic programme manager to deliver the GM Creative Health Place Partnership programme.
The role with provide programme management support across a number of work streams and support the team deliver GM’s ambition to become a creative health city region, where access to culture and creativity supports residents to live well. This is your chance to join a dynamic team working across GMCA and GM Integrated Care and at the forefront of creative health strategy and delivery.
Creative Health forms part of Live Well, Greater Manchester’s commitment to help people manage the pressures of life, live as well as they can and find purpose through good work, in partnership with communities and you will be part of the wider Live Well team, working in a fast paced and stimulating environment.
The programme focusses on the role of culture and creativity in addressing health inequalities across the life course, but with a particular emphasis on early years and school readiness, neurodivergent young people, global majority mental health, adults with long term conditions and older people’s brain health. Additional workstreams will focus on sustainability and include intelligence and data, workforce development and leadership. There will be opportunity for you to both input into the development of these work strands and to investigate potential additional areas of work.
You will collaborate with a range of stakeholders across GMCA and GM Integrated Care and GM’s 10 localities, including health, social care, higher education and the voluntary and community and cultural sectors.
The role would suit candidates with experience of managing projects in a complex operating environment with a passion for the role of culture and creativity in improving the health and wellbeing of the residents of Greater Manchester.
About you:
You will be passionate about supporting people to live well through access to culture and creativity and have a broad understanding of current creative health practice and strategy.
You will have experience of multi-agency collaboration and partnership development and have a proven ability to develop and deliver complex programmes of work through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
You will have the ability to plan and organise a range of complex activities whilst being flexible in your approach and able to respond to changing environments and circumstances.
You will be a strong communicator, with a proven ability to provide written and verbal reports and to engage with a wide range of people including team members, frontline professionals, academics, strategic leaders and representatives from communities.
You will be self motivated whilst also able to work effectively as part of a team.
You will have demonstrable experience of successful project management including monitoring budgets, meeting deadlines, informing the design and execution of evaluation and supporting the dissemination of project outcomes.
You will have experience of working in the culture and or health sectors.
About us:
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Our offer:
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:
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Hybrid working
This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our [Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location] with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.
Programme Manager (Creative Health)
