Project Manager

Position: People Project Manager
Location: City of Edinburgh

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. For 90 years we have shaped brighter futures through education, arts, culture, language, and creativity.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries.

We connect. We inspire.

People Project Manager

Location:

London, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast. Applicants currently employed by the British Council on an existing UK homeworking contract, and other applicants who are not within reasonable commuting distance of these locations, may be considered for a homeworking contract subject to business need.

Contract Type:
Two (2) Year Fixed Term Contract Pay Grade: 8

Remuneration: £38,820 - £46,203 Annual Gross Depending on Experience Closing date : 15 July 2026 at 21:59 UK Time Requirements:
You must have the legal right to work in UK at the time of application. We are unable to support with visa sponsorship and relocation.

Role Context
- About The Team:

The British Council is embarking on a significant commercial and digital growth agenda to achieve continued impact with a reduced footprint. This entails significant change and restructuring programmes across all areas of the business.

The business aligned People Partnering team sits within the Talent & Organisational Development Directorate (T&OD), which exists to bring focus to the design and development of organisation, and the development and growth of our people, partnering with leadership teams to embed new operating models and build the diversity, future skills, capabilities & ways of working needed so that we continue to renew and strengthen our global impact .The

scale of business change currently underway presents a need to scale up our people business partnering capacity for the next six months, to effectively implement global change programmes including significant restructures.

Role Purpose
- The Job:

The People Project Manager will work in partnership with the People Business Partners, business leaders and the Director of People Partnering to lead the people aspects of major transformation and organisational change activity within allocated business work streams.

They will project manage the delivery of People activity, coordinating inputs from specialist teams including Advisory, Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Reward, People Insight and Talent, Learning and Performance. They will ensure that people implications are fully considered in business decisions, that organisational change is implemented effectively and responsibly, and that leaders are supported to deliver sustainable outcomes for colleagues and the organisation.

They will support the People Partners to translate business requirements into practical people solutions, overseeing implementation activity, identifying and mitigating people risks, and supporting the embedding of new operating models, structures and ways of working. They will also ensure alignment between workstream activity, the wider People Function and be a key point of contact into the People function’s Strategy, Planning and Insight team, ensuring that plans feed into the overall People Function workstream plan.

Main Accountabilities:

Project management

Lead the scoping of people requirements for business work streams, translating transformation objectives into clear deliverables, dependencies, milestones and implementation priorities.

Develop, maintain and drive integrated People workstream plans that support end-to-end change delivery, including restructuring activity, consultation readiness, stakeholder and communications planning, implementation activity and the successful embedding of new operating models and ways of working.

Establish and maintain robust governance, reporting and decision-making processes, ensuring that progress, risks, issues and dependencies are visible and managed effectively across People and business work streams.

Drive implementation readiness by ensuring that consultation materials, impact data, change interventions, decision points and execution activities are completed to the required quality and…