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Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
1. Project Management: Initiate, develop, govern, and manage technical construction projects from design stage to completion. Manage project budget and resources to ensure outputs are delivered within agreed levels.
2. Risk and Issue Management: Actively manage and make decisions regarding project risks/issues and communications with stakeholders within agreed tolerances to ensure expected outputs are achieved. Use influencing and diplomacy skills to achieve the right outcome for the project, working effectively across teams to achieve synergies.
3. Team Leadership: Form, manage, and lead project teams as required, creating and maintaining motivation to ensure focus on delivery is assured.

Key Contacts and Relationships:
• Communicate effectively at an operational and strategic level with related business areas, project/programme customers/stakeholders, and project colleagues.
• Work with other colleagues to ensure project requirements are integrated and aligned with related developments across the organisation.
• Positively influence stakeholders at an operational and middle management level.
• Maintain effective working relationships with suppliers and other external actors, contributing towards achieving targeted development and delivery objectives to time, quality, and cost criteria.

What you'll need to succeed

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:
• Relevant professional qualification, such as APM or Prince 2.
• A professional membership such as CIOB or RICS is desirable
• Experience working on construction projects, acting as the key link between the construction team and the business. This includes ensuring effective communication and collaboration between technical site teams and corporate stakeholders, translating project requirements into business objectives, and mitigating construction-related risks.
• Good understanding of construction project lifecycles, regulatory compliance, and health and safety considerations, ensuring seamless integration of construction deliverables into wider organisational goals.
• Skills in managing the concerns of stakeholders, including employees, management, and possibly the previous vendor, to ensure buy-in and minimise resistance.
• Expertise in identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Ability to coordinate the necessary technical expertise to support the project.
• Strong stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple projects and onsite/offshore teams simultaneously.
• Good financial and budgeting experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts and principles within your own professional discipline, gained through broad and in-depth experience.
• Driving licence and access to a car to travel between sites/projects

Desirable:
• Experience in the construction or education sector.
• Educated to degree level.
• Experience of contributing towards programme planning and budgeting.
• Experience working with UK Government projects.

Reporting Line: This role reports to the Head of Projects and Change and work closely with the Estates and Operations teams.

Qualifications and Skills:
• Proven experience in project management within the construction industry.
• Strong knowledge of APM and PMI frameworks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and influence at various levels.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Proficiency in project management software and tools.

What you'll get in return

As the Project Manager, you'll be on an initial 12-Month Fixed Term contract which may be extended for the duration of the projects, which we expect to be around 3 years. You'll receive a salary/package including car allowance of up to £62,000, contributory pension, 25 days annual leave and a range of other flexible benefits.

What you need to do now

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