Programme Manager

Contract: 6 months fixed term contract, full-time
Location: London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 15 April 2026

About the role

The Programme Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating a portfolio of related projects to deliver strategic outcomes across Trinity College London’s UK and international markets.

The role focuses on ensuring cohesive programme delivery, aligning multiple workstreams, and driving successful rollout and adoption across diverse markets. It brings together cross-functional initiatives into a structured programme, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities, effective governance, and realisation of benefits at scale.

This is a critical role within change delivery, combining strategic oversight with a strong focus on execution, stakeholder alignment, and market adoption.

Your duties will include, but not limited to:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of programmes comprising multiple interdependent projects across business and technology domains.
• Define programme structure, governance, and delivery approach to ensure alignment across workstreams.
• Ensure coordination and integration of project outputs into a coherent programme outcome.
• Drive large-scale rollout and adoption across international and multi-market environments.
• Maintain focus on benefits realisation, ensuring outcomes deliver measurable value.
• Establish and maintain programme governance, ensuring alignment with organisational frameworks.
• Provide clear, consolidated reporting on programme progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Identify and manage cross-project risks, issues, and dependencies at programme level.
• Support decision-making through structured insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Ensure effective prioritisation of resources in line with strategic objectives.
• Engage senior stakeholders, market leads, and functional teams to ensure alignment and commitment to programme outcomes.
• Act as a central point of coordination between UK and market teams.
• Drive stakeholder engagement strategies to support successful rollout and adoption.
• Communicate programme vision, progress, and impact clearly across all levels of the organisation.
• Lead the adoption of programme outputs across markets, ensuring sustainable implementation.
• Support organisational change and business process improvement initiatives.
• Embed continuous improvement, lessons learned, and best practice across programme delivery.
• Contribute to the development of programme management capability within the organisation.

About you

• Demonstrable experience delivering complex programmes within international or multi-market environments.
• Proven experience managing large-scale rollout and adoption initiatives.
• Strong understanding of programme governance, risk management, and benefits realisation.
• Experience aligning multiple projects within a programme or portfolio structure.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate strategy into coordinated delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Clear and confident communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and able to operate in complex, evolving environments.
• Outcome-focused, with a strong emphasis on value and impact.

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity. 

Our commitment

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. 

We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. 

Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page. 

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

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