Corporate Development Consultant

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Job Details

We are seeking an experienced and collaborative Programme Lead (FC9) to drive and coordinate the delivery of Fife’s Future of Leisure Programme — a high‑profile, multi‑stakeholder, multi‑year transformation shaping the long‑term future of leisure, sport, culture, outdoor/nature‑based assets and community facilities across Fife.

This is one of the most significant transformation programmes underway in Communities & Neighbourhoods.

As Programme Lead, you will ensure that all workstreams are coordinated, evidence‑led and aligned with wider strategic objectives. Although strategic ownership sits across the wider Communities & Neighbourhoods service, the FC9 role provides the programme‑level leadership required to secure coherence, drive progress, oversee governance, and support robust decision‑making.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, multi‑partner environments, can navigate political and organisational sensitivities, and who balances strategic thinking with practical delivery.

What You Will Do

As the FC9 Programme Lead, you will:

• Provide leadership and coordination across all programme workstreams, ensuring integration, alignment and clarity of purpose.
• Develop and maintain programme‑wide plans, including multi‑year roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and benefits tracking.
• Drive the asset rationalisation and estate planning approach, ensuring alignment with Fife Council’s Property Asset Strategy.
• Lead cross‑Trust and cross‑service integration, supporting collaborative approaches with Trusts, the Place Directorate, communities and partners.
• Oversee financial tracking, risk management and performance reporting, ensuring programme‑wide visibility and early‑warning insight.
• Support Managing Workforce Change processes linked to programme delivery.
• Produce high‑quality reports, recommendations, options appraisals and evidence to support Directorate‑level and Committee‑level decisions.
• Work directly with community groups to support the long‑term sustainability of assets and enable community‑led operating models where appropriate.
• Represent the programme in internal and external forums, supporting transparent communication, engagement and shared ownership of change.
• These responsibilities align with the FC9 Corporate Development Consultant role profile, which includes leadership of complex change programmes, analytics, performance improvement, programme management and senior‑level influence.

The Person

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Proven experience leading complex, multi‑workstream programmes or transformation activity in large or multi‑partner environments.
• Strong analytical and evidence‑led decision‑making skills, with the ability to synthesise complex data into clear strategic recommendations.
• Excellent partnership working and influencing skills, with experience collaborating across services, organisations, Trusts and communities.
• Confidence managing competing priorities, risks, financial pressures and timelines in a fast‑moving context.
• Experience supporting organisational change, including workforce impacts, operating‑model redesign and service transformation.
• A commitment to inclusive, community‑focused practice and an understanding of community impact across asset and service redesign.
• Experience within local government, culture, sport, leisure, community development or asset‑based change is beneficial but not essential.
• Educated to SCQF Level 9 (degree or equivalent experience)

For Further Information Contact: Lauren.Forrest@fife.gov.uk

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