Project Manager

West Midlands Police; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public service institution in Birmingham is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive organisational change initiatives. This role involves planning, executing, and delivering projects, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals. The ideal candidate has a strong background in project management, stakeholder engagement, and is capable of managing multiple projects concurrently. This position offers a competitive benefits package and the chance to make a meaningful impact on community safety.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave

Wellbeing package including 24/7 support

Qualifications

• Experience of managing organisational change projects.
• Concurrent management of multiple projects.
• Management of multiple stakeholders across various teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver organisational change projects aligning with strategic goals.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage project risks.
• Engage and manage stakeholders effectively.

Skills

Project Management methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Leadership

MS365 applications

Education

Degree in a relevant field or substantial experience (min 2 years)

Tools

PRINCE2 Practitioner certification

Job description

Overview

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.

Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding challenge, leading and driving effective transformational change? Are you passionate about making a difference?

West Midlands Police is the second largest police force in the country, serving a population of almost 2.8 million. Our mission is simple - Working in partnership, making communities safer. We want to be recognised as a police service that is big enough to cope with everything that is asked of us, whilst showing we are small enough to care about the things that really matter to our communities.

These are exciting times for West Midlands Police. To help achieve our vision, we are delivering an extensive and varied change and improvement portfolio. This will bring real transformational change, supporting continuous performance and service improvement that truly makes a difference to our people and to the public.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join the Corporate Change Department. Come and be part of a fantastic team of Project Managers, Business Analysts and Change Practitioners dedicated to delivering change and transformation that enables West Midlands Police to provide an outstanding service to the communities we serve.

Role purpose

Project Managers play a vital role in driving positive and sustainable change across West Midlands Police. The role holder will be responsible for the day to day running and delivery of organisational change projects. This will involve the planning, execution, and delivery of organisational change initiatives, ensuring that they align with the strategic goals of the organisation and bring about the desired business benefits.

The role will involve the coordination of cross-functional and departmental teams as well as the management of project risks, issues, timelines, and budgets. A key part of this will be the need to ensure effective stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Working to best practice Project Management methodologies, making use of standard tools and approaches
• Supporting the Force project commissioning / governance process
• Defining project scope, objectives and benefits, ensuring alignment to the Force\'s strategic change goals
• Developing and managing detailed project plans and associated timelines
• Managing the Force resources allocated to projects
• Defining project quality requirements and ensuring delivery against quality management criteria
• Engaging and managing stakeholders across all levels within the organisation, ensuring effective communication
• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that could impact change delivery
• Identifying and managing any inter-dependencies related to a project
• Problem / issue analysis and resolution
• Monitoring and reporting on project progress, ensuring that Change Portfolio governance requirements are adhered to
• Managing budgets and ensuring cost control throughout the project lifecycle
• Applying benefits management and relevant processes to ensure the realisation of project benefits / desired outcomes
• Effective change management within a continually evolving environment. Supporting change management and change adoption activities
• The effective closure of projects, capturing lessons learned and ensuring a smooth handover to business departments and teams
• Aligning all work to the Force values and ensuring that all impacts of change are considered in the context of diversity, equality and inclusion

Essential

• Experience of managing of organisational change projects
• Concurrent management of multiple projects and/or multiple work-streams within a project
• Effective project delivery, enabling the desired business benefits and outcomes
• Management of multiple stakeholders across a broad range of teams and departments
• Use of Project and Change Management methodologies, techniques and tools
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent project management training and / or experience
• Educated to degree level or have substantial experience (min 2 years) in a relevant field
• Project Management (initiation, defining, planning, delivery and closure)
• Planning that enables delivery in the most efficient manner
• The identification of project and product quality criteria
• Problem solving and critical analysis
• Risk and Issue management
• Prioritisation and conflict management (people and tasks)
• Networking, engagement, influencing and communicative skills
• Written, oral and presentational skills
• Strategically aware, with the ability to see the \'bigger picture\' but able to translate this into practical delivery plans
• Leadership and people management skills, within a matrix management environment
• Ability to build effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders within and around West Midlands Police
• Ability to work at a strategic level with Chief Officers and other senior members of staff
• Ability to analyse both qualitative and quantitative information that can be easily understood
• Ability to identify the wider implications of any change and the inter-dependencies between different initiatives
• Possesses a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experienced and competent in the use of MS365 applications

Desirable

• Experience of managing projects within a public sector environment
• Experience of managing multi-disciplined teams, operating in a matrix management environment
• Experience of managing senior stakeholders including Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Executive Teams, etc.
• Commercial acumen
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to engage external agency groups to deliver against mutual objectives

Vetting

Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process

Medical

Appointment to this role may be dependent upon successfully completing medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Interviews

W.C 13th October 2025

Contact

For any queries please email - [e-mail]

Benefit Statement

By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:

• Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
• Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
• Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
• A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a \'Disability Confident Interview Scheme\' - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

"Diversity and Inclusion Vision: Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities"