Senior Strategy Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Strategy Project Manager
Hours: 36 hours (Full-Time)
Job Status: Fixed Term for 12 months
Location: Home based with occasional travel
Salary: GBP50,311.15 per annum
Closing Date: Thursday 23 May 2024
Interview Date: Expected 31 May 2024 and 03 June 2024
Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future.
About the role
The Strategy Team is looking to appoint a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of key transformation and strategic projects and programmes in support of Skills for Care s strategy. These posts will play a key role in ensuring Skills for Care delivers its strategy and maximises impact for the Adult Social Care sector.
The Senior Strategy Project Manager will ensure successful definition, planning and delivery of strategic and back-office projects and programmes. Bringing excellent strategic thinking, strong facilitation skills and a balance of diplomacy and challenge, you will play a pivotal role in our transformation journey, to achieve our organisational vision and adapt to an evolving market context.
Your role extends beyond project management; it's about orchestrating transformation and change throughout our organisation. From project inception to final implementation, you'll ensure alignment with our strategic objectives and adapt to market shifts.
Central to your role will be defining projects with precision. With a high degree of financial acumen, you'll craft compelling business cases that justify investment and clarify paths to success, analysing benefits, costs, and risks.
Your ability to navigate stakeholder relationships will be crucial. Working closely with senior leadership, internal teams, and external partners, you'll ensure alignment, consensus, and understanding.
This role presents a great opportunity for an experienced project or programme manager with demonstrable strategic thinking to support the implementation of Skills for Care s strategy and create a demonstrable positive impact on social care and social care workforce.
The post is home-based, with occasional travel and flexible working available.
If you are interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description (url removed).
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.