Key Notes
Train Drivers Academy products and wider People Strategy initiatives are delivered through this project-management post. It coordinates industry stakeholders, specialists and unions around common workforce challenges, covering requirements, governance and evaluation. The full-time, hybrid London appointment is an 18-month fixed-term contract. Rail-industry experience is advantageous but expressly not essential, and no salary is stated.
What You'll Work On
- Develop project plans with clear requirements, accountabilities, deliverables, dependencies and timescales aligned with the Train Drivers Academy and People Strategy objectives.
- Manage delivery progress and project risks, implementing mitigations and escalating issues within RDG governance arrangements while coordinating the activities of contributors.
- Build stakeholder engagement plans and work with industry specialists to develop TDA products, services, guidance and events against agreed requirements.
- Maintain governance documentation and reporting and evaluate outputs against success measures, capturing lessons and opportunities to improve subsequent project delivery.
Why This Role Matters
- Rail workforce initiatives can turn shared industry needs into defined products and services when project plans coordinate subject-matter expertise, delivery activity and implementation requirements.
- TDA and People Strategy stakeholders can assess whether agreed outputs have been achieved through progress reporting, success measures and lessons captured for future improvements.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Project, programme-support or change-delivery experience covering planning, governance, stakeholders, risk and coordination is essential.
- Technical: Essential skills include planning interdependent activities, analysing perspectives, solving delivery problems and adapting plans as circumstances change.
- Stakeholder: Communication, structured discussion, collaborative relationships and shared decision-making are essential.
- Preferred: Rail workforce/training experience, product or guidance development and project-methodology or benefits-realisation knowledge are advantageous.