Junior Digital Project Manager Manchester, England
Job description
We are recruiting for a Junior Digital Project Manager to join our expanding team of specialists across strategy and planning, project management, design and UX, development, QA and testing.
If you are passionate about all things digital and design, and want to be part of a company that values personal improvement, learning and knowledge sharing – then this would be a great role for you...
Based in our Manchester office, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a number of ambitious clients across diverse sectors, including some well known brands; WaterAid, BAFTA, National Grid, National Youth Theatre, University of Central Lancashire, Stagecoach Bus and Wave Utilities – as well as numerous smaller local businesses, charities and our own internal projects.
Primary Role & Responsibilities
As a Junior Digital Project Manager you’ll be expected to support senior project managers on the delivery of large projects as well as take responsibility for managing some small projects and overseeing and coordinating ongoing maintenance and support activity across clients.
- Manage the Maintenance & Support schedule, priorities and scheduling
- Run monthly reports for client spend and support retainer usage
- Support senior Project Managers in the delivery of larger projects, participating in team and client planning and review meetings
- Participating in the creation of documentation; timing plans, specifications and cost proposals
- Support strategic and technical planning by providing analytics and digital marketing support
- Forecast workloads to identify under or over capacity periods
- Work closely with project teams to support their day to day operations – helping to resolve issues to ensure project milestones and deadlines are met
- Communicate project updates to clients regarding budgets, risks and timescales
- Forecast workloads and raise opportunity to take on new work.
About you – what we are looking for.
Ideally, you'll already have some experience in managing website or app projects, gained through a placement year, work experience or employment.
You’ll need to be organised, methodical, collaborative and passionate about delivering great work for our clients and their customers. You’ll be keen to learn and want the opportunity to develop your personal and technical skills on the job.
Skills and experience
- A basic working understanding of project management methodologies, Agile and Waterfall.
- Confident in communicating with team and clients, verbal and written
- Some experience or web content management systems is desirable
- Some experience of project management software – Jira, Trello, Basecamp – is desirable
About Access
We're all about being Genuinely Effective.
We are committed to helping our clients by ‘making it easy’ for organisations to deliver exceptional customer experiences by being genuine, honest and supportive in our approach whilst being highly effective in the solutions we provide.
We have three core areas to our service offering; Insight & Strategy, Experience & Engagement and Technology & Support. For some clients we are full-service, and others use us to support specific areas of their customer experience.
As one of only 20 Acquia Preferred Partners in Northern Europe we provide professional development services to some of the world’s leading organisations.
Working environment and culture
Our head office is situated in Old Trafford, Manchester (overlooking Manchester United’s Stadium), just a few stops on the MetroLink from Piccadilly train station. For those traveling by road, we provide free secure car parking and cycle storage.
We have created a working space that has adapted to onsite and remote team and client working. Open plan areas and breakout rooms means our strategic, creative and technical teams can organise and arrange themselves to how they work best.
We provide an inclusive, flexible and transparent environment and approach to work. We pride ourselves on teamwork, collaboration and supporting each other – our low staff turnover and high retention rates support this claim. We are committed to professional and personal development, including training, regular one to ones, quarterly reviews and 360 feedback.
The package
We offer a competitive salary, dependent on qualifications and experience. On top of this we provide a range of benefits, perks and opportunities to provide a rewarding package.
- Perks and benefits of working for Access
- Pension Scheme with employer contributions
- Peer to peer bonus and recognition scheme
- Choose your own computer and equipment
- Free fruit and healthy (and the occasional not so healthy) snacks
- Training and personal development fund
- Conference and networking support and funding
- Flexible start and working from home days
- Part-time and full-time positions
- Tax-free bike scheme
- Tax-free childcare vouchers
- Additional maternity, paternity and sick leave support
- 24 days holiday (up to 29 days with additional loyalty holiday entitlement)
… and your birthday day off! - Paid and subsidised social events
- Free secure car parking
- Free indoor secure bike store
- Free and subsidised onsite fitness and wellbeing classes
- Showers and lockers
