Project Manager - 1 Year Fixed-Term Contract

at  Comic Relief

COMIC RELIEF

Employment Type Contract 1 year contract
Location Hybrid · London, City of, UK 2 days a week in our London Office
Salary £44,427 - £48,763 (GBP)
Team Business Services

Seniority Mid-level

• Closing: 11:55pm, 3rd Nov 2024 GMT

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home 3 days a week.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience of driving change management
• Familiarity with visualisation tools such as MS Visio.
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PURPOSE OF JOB:

This Project Manager will join the Business Services team at an exciting time as we launch new projects to improve our ways of working across the organisation. A number of key cross organisational strategic projects have been identified to enable Comic Relief to deliver against its five year strategy.
The successful candidate will be instrumental to our success by providing overarching planning, management, and coordination of select projects within Comic Relief’s programme of strategic projects; working with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure planning processes, project governance and reporting is developed and embedded into all activities.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to support Comic Relief as it makes changes to enable the organisation to succeed in achieving our vision of a Just World Free from Poverty.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee a portfolio of projects, taking on the project management responsibility for selected cross- organisational strategic projects (managing multiple projects simultaneously).
• Manage projects through their entire lifecycle, from briefing and scoping to set up, governance, planning, task management, communication, coordination and tracking, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across the organisation to review key processes, including facilitating workshops and offering expertise and resource as required.
• Work with Project Teams to ensure active management of dependencies and risks, acting as an intermediary and supporting issue resolution.
• Facilitate Steering Group meetings to ensure effective project management, timely decision making, and resolution of escalated risks and issues.
• Identify and manage complex dependencies and risks across the programme, taking corrective action or escalating issues when necessary.
• Utilise tracking and reporting tools, as well as briefings and huddles, to ensure project progress is communicated, adjusting these as projects evolve.
• Engage with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure consistency and alignment in the execution of projects.
• Promote project management best practices and identify learning opportunities to foster efficient and innovative ways of working.