Project Manager

HM Land Registry; London; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Land Registry is seeking a Project Manager for the Transformation Delivery Team. This role will oversee the planning and delivery of innovative projects, requiring excellent coordination and stakeholder management skills. You will work with various teams to ensure successful project outcomes, reflecting HMLR's goals and standards.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension Scheme

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Experience of planning and coordinating complex projects.
• Successful track record in stakeholder negotiations.
• Ability to articulate problems and solutions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects while adhering to government standards.
• Manage project budgets and timelines effectively.
• Develop communication strategies for stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Coordination

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation

Job description

Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Croydon, London (region), CR0 2AQ : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 3BH : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, HU2 8JN : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE3 5DR : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS : Warton, North West England, PR4 1TE : Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4LR

Job Summary

HM Land Registry strategy and business plan set out some of the most ambitious goals in the organisation’s history. To ensure these objectives are successfully delivered in a controlled manner, HMLR are managing a number of high-stakes multi-year programmes and portfolios covering a huge variety of work and reaching every part of the organisation.

As a Project Manager working in the Transformation Delivery Team within the Transformation & Technology Directorate, you will be a key player in delivering these strategic commitments. You will be working on some of the most exciting, innovative, and far-reaching initiatives that HM Land Registry has planned and have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from every part of the business.

You Will Be Responsible For

• bringing together teams of experts to agree requirements and scope for complex projects
• defining timelines and plans for delivery
• monitoring ongoing work to ensure outputs are produced on time and to the right quality
• helping colleagues define benefits to be achieved by projects
• controlling budgets and financial planning
  
  

Working to the government standard for Project Delivery and applying appropriate project management methodology, you will use best practice and seek improvements from lessons learned, relying on support from your peers and through access to accredited training and extensive professional development material.

Job Description

Your main duties will include:

• Responsible for delivery of projects within HM Land Registry.
• Accountable for the planning, design, governance and delivery of the Project(s), including obtaining all relevant internal and external approvals.
• Accountable for managing project delivery according to baselined project plans towards realisation of profiled benefits, and including dependency management, risk and issues management and resource management.
• Work with the Programme Managers, Benefits Managers and Benefits Owners to agree benefits profiles and benefits realisation plans.
• Capture lessons learned, participate in project assurance activities, and offer peer-to-peer support.
• Collaborate with the Project SRO, Programme Manager and other interested parties on the transition of Project products and services to a ‘business as usual’ position
• Control third-party contributions and delivery partners.
• Oversee procurement of goods and services according to Government procurement rules.
• Manage stakeholders, including communication strategies and plans at Project level.
• Control project expenditure, budgeting, and financial forecasting.
  
  

Please note this role requires a minimum of 30 hours per week. Travel and overnight stays will be required from time to time.

Your Main Duties Will Include

• Responsible for delivery of projects within HM Land Registry.
• Accountable for the planning, design, governance and delivery of the Project(s), including obtaining all relevant internal and external approvals.
• Accountable for managing project delivery according to baselined project plans towards realisation of profiled benefits, and including dependency management, risk and issues management and resource management.
• Work with the Programme Managers, Benefits Managers and Benefits Owners to agree benefits profiles and benefits realisation plans.
• Capture lessons learned, participate in project assurance activities, and offer peer-to-peer support.
• Collaborate with the Project SRO, Programme Manager and other interested parties on the transition of Project products and services to a ‘business as usual’ position
• Control third-party contributions and delivery partners.
• Oversee procurement of goods and services according to Government procurement rules.
• Manage stakeholders, including communication strategies and plans at Project level.
• Control project expenditure, budgeting, and financial forecasting.
  
  

Please note this role requires a minimum of 30 hours per week. Travel and overnight stays will be required from time to time.

Person specification

You Will Have

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work (Lead Criteria)
• Experience of successfully building consensus, negotiating, and influencing stakeholders on all levels.
• Experience of successful leadership, including leading, participating in, and advising at senior stakeholder groups, such as board meetings or senior working groups.
• Experience of collaborating with others to achieve successful delivery of challenging objective, with the ability to be pragmatic and bring others along with you.
• Experience of articulating difficult concepts to stakeholders and facilitate problem solving.
  
  

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
  
  

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work
• Organisational, planning and coordination skills supported by appropriate technical tools and applied in a project or similar environment
  
  

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work
  
  

Alongside your salary of £44,081, HM Land Registry contributes £12,770 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
  
  

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To Apply For This Vacancy, You Will Need To Complete The Short Online Application Form And Take The Online Civil Service Judgement Test. We Recommend You Complete a Practice Test Before Completing The Online Test. For More Information On Completing The Civil Service Judgement Test, And To Access The Practice Tests, Please Follow The Link Below

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If you pass the online test, you will then move into the next stage of the application process, where you will be invited to submit your full application form, which includes your CV, and supporting statements.

The Technical Question (in No More Than 250 Words) Should Be Used To Demonstrate How You Meet The Following Essential Technical Criteria

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work.
  
  

Skills

The Personal Statement section (in no more than 500 words) should be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• Experience of successful leadership, including leading, participating in, and advising at senior stakeholder groups, such as board meetings or senior working groups.
• Experience of collaborating with others to achieve successful delivery of challenging objective, with the ability to be pragmatic and bring others along with you.
• Stakeholder management, communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  

In The Event Of a High Volume Of Applications, We Reserve The Right To Assess Against The Following Leading Technical Criteria

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work.
  
  

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended face to face interview and deliver a pre-prepared presentation. The interviews will take place w/c Monday 4th August 2025.

The blended interview will assess the technical criteria, behaviours and experience for this role.

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Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview. If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to share these values. Please ensure all examples provided throughout the recruitment process are representative of your own experience. For more information see Artificial Intelligence in recruitment, Civil Service Careers.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Matthew Livings
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email [e-mail] in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/