Senior Project Manager

Location: Quarter

Salary: £62,335.00 - £67,449.20

Type: 12 months Fixed Term

Hours:

35

Working Pattern:
Hybrid

The Role:

At St Monica Trust, we're a Bristol-based charity with over 100 years of supporting older people to live fulfilling, independent lives. Through our retirement villages, care homes and charitable foundation, we're committed to creating communities where older people flourish through connection, contribution and  this role, you'll play an important part in supporting us achieve this vision and helping shape the services, systems and experiences that make a real difference to people every day.

You'll bring your expertise to an organisation where purpose and impact go hand in hand. Whether through specialist knowledge, problem-solving, innovation or collaboration, you'll help drive continuous improvement and support the delivery of exceptional experiences for residents, customers and colleagues.

What You'll Be Doing:

The purpose of this role is to lead the delivery of significant organisational change, transformation and business improvement initiatives within a complex and growing not-for-profit organisation. Working across multiple projects or programmes of work, the role is responsible for ensuring successful delivery on behalf of the Project Sponsor, achieving agreed outcomes and benefits within defined tolerances for cost, quality, scope, time and risk.

Through effective project leadership, stakeholder engagement and governance, the postholder will support the Trust in implementing strategic priorities and driving sustainable improvements across services, systems and ways of working.

Ensure feasibility studies and the development of project proposals and business cases are robust from financial and commercial, technical (and other relevant) perspectives.

Maintenance and ownership of auditable records of cost control, benefits realisation, communication and time plans throughout the life of the projects and post-change.

Build, influence and maintain stake-holder engagement and ownership in readiness for the complexities of a range of organisational change initiatives and projects, including post-change.

Responsibility for the development of fully integrated plan(s) to ensure synergy and cross-reference across projects, their planning/implementation and post-change business as usual processes.

Problem solve and trouble shoot at a range of levels across the organisation in relation to the projects.

Ensure regular progress reports are distributed to relevant key stakeholders.

Role model and deliver best practice and learning opportunities to PMs.

About You:

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate the following key skills and requirements:

Essential:

Proven track record of successfully leading complex projects and organisational change programmes from initiation through to benefits realisation.

Extensive experience managing multiple work streams, projects or programmes simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and organisational objectives.

Strong knowledge and practical application of recognised project and change management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, Managing Successful Programmes, Prosci).Demonstrable experience developing business cases, options appraisals and investment proposals to support strategic decision-making.

Highly proficient in project planning, governance, risk management, dependency management and benefits tracking.

Experience working with and influencing senior leaders, Executive Teams, Boards and key stakeholders across an organisation.

Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, challenge constructively and drive delivery within complex stakeholder environments.

Strong commercial and financial acumen, including responsibility for significant budgets, procurement activity and supplier management.

Experience leading cross-functional project teams and creating high-performing collaborative working environments.

Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to tailor messages for a range of audiences.

Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, using data and insight to inform decision-making.

Experience embedding sustainable change and ensuring operational readiness and adoption following project delivery.

Project Management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, MSP, PMI-PMP or equivalent)
Desirable:

Experience with in health, social care, housing, charity or not-for-profit sectors.

Experience of digital transformation, service redesign or operational improvement…