Project Manager Pickering, England
Job description
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join us. If you're motivated by making a difference, enjoy building relationships and delivering change, this could be the role for you!
The Wilf Ward Family Trust is an established charity based in Yorkshire. Our goal is to provide quality care and opportunities to adults with learning disabilities, enabling those we support to live a fulfilled life.
About the role:
As the importance of project management is growing in the social care sector, we're looking for a Project Manager to join us on a fixed term contract. As a project manager, you will help support us on our journey to develop, implement and oversee our strategic project framework to ensure we achieve our strategic vision.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and implement a framework that delivers strategic projects aligned in our ‘Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Lives’ vision.
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget.
- All project proposals are evidence based, operationally effective, value for money and recorded in the appropriate programme and project documentation and information systems.
- Hold responsibility for project governance and reporting against key projects.
- Manage the handover to business as usual, ensure ownership of responsibilities and buy-in within the relevant area.
- Agree and adhere to governance arrangements for individual projects, including controls, approval points, reporting arrangements and escalation routes.
- Ensure project team tracking mechanisms identify, monitor, and evaluate risks and issues to facilitate proactive resolution and escalation.
- Proactively engage internal and external stakeholders, modelling a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating to achieve the best outcomes in project delivery.
Qualifications and Experience
- Relevant project management qualification, training or experience is essential.
- Ability to forge and develop working relationships.
- Motivate and negotiate to achieve the best outcomes for the individuals we support.
- Articulate and eloquent written and verbal communication to stakeholder groups that delivers complex information in an accessible format.
- Operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
- Manage the challenges of project development and delivery within competing perspectives and priorities.
- Understand current national frameworks across the social care sector.
What we offer:
- A competitive salary.
- Flexible Working.
- Focus on employee wellbeing, blue light discount, and access to the WWFT reward site.
- Progression opportunities and support with professional qualifications.
- Death in service insurance.
If this sounds likes the role for you, please click apply. We’d love to hear from you and start a conversation.
Check out our Facebook Page to discover more about the work we do: The Wilf Ward Family Trust | Facebook
Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England, and Wales (Company No. 07568318)
Charity Registration No: 1140852, VAT Registration No: 229815779
The Wilf Ward Family Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £52,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
