Project Manager

We have a fantastic opportunity to recruit a Project Manager with construction experience working as part of our internal Consultancy team in the North, Midlands & East of England and Wales, as we work to deliver projects in a more programmatic and efficient way. 

We have ambitious portfolio of projects that will include several visitor infrastructure and compliance projects that will help improve access to our places and protect our environment. 

This role will be covering projects across the North of England, Midlands, East of England and Wales. 

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £44,499pa

Contract: Fixed term contract for 2 years

Interviews: 8th and 15th April

If you have any questions about this role please contact: samuel.cooper@nationaltrust.org.uk

You'll be part of the National Trust's Consultancy: a multidisciplinary team of experts, from curators and coastal specialists to Project Managers and archaeologists, who provide specialist consultancy advice to the places we care for, to help make things happen. The Grouped Projects team are based across England and Wales, working with a wide range of properties and places to deliver infrastructure projects.

Your contractual location can be any of our regional Consultancy hubs, but our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We'll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 40-60% of your working week.

Working within the National Trust’s Project Management Framework, you’ll be managing a suite of construction and compliance projects across a variety of properties. These will include upgrading parking facilities and other ways of getting to our places, and increasing accessibility to outside spaces and gardens. As projects progress through each stage of the project lifecycle you'll work at pace within funding deadlines, lead engagement with stakeholders and key funding partners, share and apply lessons, and work with the Consultancy Manager and Programme Manager to develop the pipeline of future projects. 

You'll benefit from and play an active part in the Trust’s wider project management community - a network of sharing of best practice and mentoring, as well as technical support and development, ensuring that our projects are delivering benefits in line with our national strategy. 

We will shortlist for interview on the following minimum criteria for the role: 

You'll

• have experience of successfully delivering end to end project management for construction projects circa £250k-£5m or multi-workstream projects with a significant construction element over £500k; including defining resources, leading procurement, securing project teams and matrix management and budget management across multiple workstreams/projects/programmes
• have experience in leading procurement contract selection and administration (JCT or similar)
• hold a recognised Project Management qualification (APM PMQ / Prince2 or similar) or Programme Management (MSP or similar) and demonstrate evidence of ongoing CPD in your career to date. Or you'll hold a recognised Construction Project Management qualification and be prepared to study towards the Project Management qualification (APM PMQ )
• possess excellent communication, problem solving and influencing skills and be confident liaising with Senior Leaders, able challenge and interpret advice of your design team and make recommendations to your governance board / Sponsor
• demonstrate experience of managing complex external stakeholder relationships
• be able to write clear, concise reports summarising work completed and recommended proposals and present these succinctly to the regional and national investment boards.