Project Manager

Refuge; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Refuge is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end property programmes across its corporate services. The role will steer acquisition, refurbishment and handover of sites, ensuring outcomes for safety and rebuilding lives.

Working in a fast-moving, agile environment, you’ll coordinate contractors, internal teams and stakeholders to deliver on time, on budget and to high standards, while maintaining trauma-informed practice and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in property projects and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end property projects from acquisition through refurbishment and handover.
• Coordinate contractors, stakeholders and internal teams to deliver on time and on budget.
• Ensure compliant, trauma-informed spaces and high-quality delivery.
• Support Refuge’s transformational journey to expand safe accommodation.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Project Manager to join our team in Corporate Services.

Job Title: Project Manager

Location:

Hybrid, with a requirement to travel to service locations especially within Warwickshire and sometimes London, Derby or other service locations - to be agreed with the postholder.

Salary:

£41,643 per annum (An additional £3000 per annum London weighting allowance may be added to the above salary. Please be advised that this may not be applicable depending on your home location and any agreed permanent homeworking arrangement)

Contract type:

Full-Time, Fixed Term Contract (12-24 Months)

Hours:

37.5 hours per week

Refuge is embarking on significant transformation to expand and enhance safe accommodation across its services. At the heart of this journey is an opportunity for a skilled Project Manager to help turn vision into reality—shaping spaces that are not just buildings, but foundations for safety and rebuilding lives.

In this role, you won’t simply manage projects—you will lead end-to-end, guiding properties from acquisition through to refurbishment and handover and ensuring the programme delivers the benefits intended. Working within a dynamic team, you will navigate complexity with confidence, bringing together contractors, stakeholders, and internal teams to deliver at pace, on budget, and with purpose. It’s a role that calls for both structure and adaptability—where disciplined project management meets agile ways of working in a fast-moving and evolving environment.

We are looking for someone who is not only experienced in property projects, but who is energised by the impact their work can have. Someone who thrives on collaboration, can manage competing priorities, and understands the intricacies of delivering high-quality, compliant and trauma-informed spaces. Above all, we are seeking a Project Manager who wants their work to matter—who sees beyond bricks and mortar to the lives being rebuilt within them, and who is ready to play a meaningful part in Refuge’s transformational journey.

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. For more information on our work, please visit www.refuge.org.uk.

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.