Senior Project Manager - Engagement

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Job description

Senior Project Manager - Engagement

Location: Homebased / London - Hybrid working
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Salary: Starting salary of £44,012 per annum, rising to £48,725. If based in London this role will receive an additional London weighting of £3,655 per annum.

Our client is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead their engagement work with a focus on our successful and long standing Green Impact programme.

ROLE SPECIFICS

Location: Home working anywhere in the UK, London-based staff have access to our London office for part of the week.
Working patterns: 1.0 FTE (35 hours/week) with typical working times between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. The role includes weekly travel with early starts and late returns, and approx. 10 overnight stays a year. Flexible work patterns, condensed hours, job share and part time working opportunities open to negotiation.
Salary: Starting salary of £44,012 per annum, rising to £48,725. If based in London this role will receive an additional London weighting of £3,655 per annum. We provide up to 6% pension contribution, with life assurance for all those in the pension scheme. They have annual guaranteed pay point increases (up to top of the grade) as well as an annual cost of living pay increase policy.

Closing date for applications: 17th November 2024 at 11.59pm.
Interview dates: 28th and 29th November 2024 for first stage 30-minute interviews. Second stage 55-minute interviews will be held on 4th and 5th December 2024. All interviews will be held online.
Preferred start date: 13th January 2025

About the Organisation

They are a student-led education charity focusing on sustainability. They know environmental sustainability cannot be achieved in isolation, so their work spans across issues of climate justice and wellbeing as well. They believe in lifelong learning and work on sustainability across all forms of education from early years to workplace learning. They act as a support crew - facilitating, encouraging and mentoring people wherever they are on their journey in sustainability.

They see the power and potential in students and young people to be at the forefront of change. They work alongside them as equal partners in their sustainability leadership journeys. They believe that when students lead on sustainability, they learn about it, picking up the vital knowledge, skills and competencies they will need to help transform society into a more just and sustainable place.

Their vision is to see: more students leading on, and learning for, sustainability; an education system repurposed around the climate emergency and ecological crisis; and sustainability that is more inclusive, so it is for everyone. reform work; their work progressing diversity and inclusion across the environmental sector.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This exciting role focuses on leading our external staff engagement programmes with a primary focus on the Green Impact programme. Green Impact is their most successful programme, with an excellent track record of creating impactful change at organisational level. They are looking for someone to provide excellent leadership to ensure that their staff engagement programmes continue to thrive.

Key responsibilities include:

• Successfully programme manage their staff engagement programmes with a primary focus on Green Impact, providing value to participants, and support the Director of Engagement to actively encourage new organisations to participate.
• Develop and lead on innovations to programmes, such as creating new concepts, delivering pilots and supporting the continued development of the programme, including expanding their reach and impact in new sectors.
• Oversee the management of a team of Project Managers, providing support as needed to ensure consistency and quality of their programme delivery.
• Product manage the Green Impact software platform, liaising with their external technical partners.
• Represent them at various sector events, conferences, and meetings, acting as an ambassador their work and proactively seeking opportunities.

Please read a full description of the role's responsibilities and person specification (knowledge, skills, attributes, and experience) in the role profile downloadable from our recruitment page.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

They are passionate about climate justice and are proud to be driving inclusion across the environmental movement through campaigns like The RACE Report. They're totally committed to equity in their recruitment and selection processes and encourage candidates of all backgrounds and identities, including age, ability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation.
For this role, we particularly encourage applications from people of colour and people with disabilities, as they are currently under-represented for both those protected characteristic within the organisation generally and also at this level.

They are committed to taking positive action to improve the diversity of their staff team. If they deem you to meet the essential criteria for this role and you define as a person of colour, or someone with a disability, you will qualify for a guaranteed first stage interview. It is important to note that this scheme guarantees an interview for candidates who meet the minimum criteria and tell them that they'd like to be considered under their guaranteed interview scheme by ticking that box in the application form. Their final recruitment decision at interview will be based on the most suitable candidate, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Find out more about how they are striving to be an inclusive and people-centred employer. If you would like to speak to a member of staff not involved in the interview process about how your experience might fulfil the requirements of the role, please get in touch, they would love to hear from you!

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