Project Manager

Project Manager

Salary: Up £58,929 per annum plus 0excellent benefits.

Contract: 2-year fixed term

Hours Per week: 37.5 hours per week. Within this role you are required to work in-person a minimum of two days per week, in line with our hybrid working model.

Our Foundation

We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK. Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity, and helps build a stronger society.

Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK and services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

It doesn't have to be like this. Our mission is to help build a healthier UK by:

• Improving people's health and reducing inequalities
• Supporting radical innovation and improvement in health and care services
• Providing evidence and analysis to improve health and care policy.

We aim for excellence across our work and will achieve this by producing research and analysis, shaping policy and practice, building skills, knowledge, and capacity, and acting as a catalyst for change.

Everyone has a stake and a part to play in improving our health. By working together, we can build a healthier UK.

About the role

The Project Manager role is a new, fixed-term position reporting to the Change Programme Director. This role supports the 'Our Future Foundation' programme, a significant internal initiative aimed at developing a new target operating model in line with our new strategy.

As a Project Manager, you will bring extensive experience in setting up and managing large-scale, organisation-wide change projects in a complex environment and with multiple dependencies. Your expertise in organisational change, transformation, or design will be crucial in delivering effective change outcomes in accordance with best Organisational Development (OD) practices.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with colleagues at all levels of seniority to ensure the successful delivery of projects and their alignment with the 'Our Future Foundation' programme.

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

• Work with the Change Programme Director and the Our Future Foundation programme team to design the programme, ensuring the activities are optimal, efficient, and enabling the programme to succeed.
• Work closely with the programme team members and the working group leads to identify the requirements of each project under the programme. Oversee and monitor the delivery of their work plans, escalating risks, issues and changes where required and reviewing and updating overall plans.
• Ensure that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.

How to apply

Our priority is to find the right individual for each opportunity. We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace that values diversity and invite you to find out more. You can find the job description for this role Here. If you would like to apply, please submit your CV, and Answer the following application questions:

1. Drawing on and giving examples from your experience to date, please describe how you would manage a large and complex change project in a hybrid working environment as part of a wider internal organisational change programme, working with other project managers, programme workstream leads and the Change Programme Director. (max 500 words)
2. Give an example of a change project you have managed and delivered successfully that is most relevant to this role and where you collaborated and communicated with a range of stakeholders, handled sensitivities and internal politics, and managed numerous complex dependencies. What challenges did you face in this project, how did you overcome them and what have you learnt from this that you would bring to this role? (max 400 words)
3. Excellent communication skills are an essential part of this role. Using your writing skills, what are the three key messages that would persuade us to invite you to the interview? This could include why you want to work on the change programme and what you would bring to the role. (max 300 words)

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to an inclusive hiring process, where every candidate has the chance to showcase their unique skills and experience in an accessible, and supported environment, to ensure that we can make the best appointment for each job on merit.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from underrepresented groups in this field to apply to us. We have identified three diverse groups. In particular, we want to achieve a better balance across our organisation between men and women, increase representation of people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds and recruit more people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we particularly welcome applications from these groups.

Apply to join our team and let's work towards building a diverse and inclusive workplace together. If you require any support through this process, please contact Help us work together to make the recruitment process and potential future employment more accessible and enjoyable for you.

Closing date: 06 January 2025 at 23:59.

Interview date: 20 January 2025.

First stage interviews will be online and will include a presentation.