Project Manager

Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Manchester; Vor Ort; GBP 40.000 - 56.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Talantir in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive portfolio officer for the Youth Capital Portfolio Team. You will manage relationships with grant partners, monitor progress, and help ensure timely payments and robust reporting.

Working with the Youth Capital Portfolio Office, you will help identify risks, support change control, and develop engagement plans for Youth Spaces Phase 3, including ministerial submissions and stakeholder outreach.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering grant-funded programmes and managing budgets.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to coordinate across teams and ministers’ offices.

Aufgaben

• Managing the relationship with the fund’s Intermediary Grant Maker and reviewing grant agreements.
• Follow the payment plan and provide financial reporting to support budgeting.
• Work with the Youth Capital Portfolio Office to identify risks and remedial actions.
• Develop stakeholder plans to engage young people for the Phase 3 programme and support ministerial submissions.

Kenntnisse

Grant management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget reporting

Project delivery

Jobbeschreibung

Job summaryThe Youth team is an innovative team, within the high profile Civil Society and Youth Directorate. It has responsibility for a range of cross cutting and high profile policy areas, including the National Youth Strategy, published in December 2025. The strategy sets a cross-government direction for youth policy for the next decade, with DCMS announcing £500 million over the next 3 years for things to do outside of school, more youth clubs and access to trusted adults. This includes £350 million Better Youth Spaces capital programme.

The Youth team is a driven, friendly unit with a vision to ensure the programmes we deliver and the engagements we lead have the greatest impact for young people and their communities.We are firmly committed to our people, and this is reflected in our values. We work hard to build an environment that is diverse and inclusive, as well as warm, friendly and collaborative; where each member of staff can flourish, feel comfortable being themselves at work, develop their skills and move their career forward.

Job descriptionThe Youth Capital Portfolio Team is looking for a strong communicator with a track-record of project delivery and grant-management. The candidate will need to manage, escal Your responsibilities will include:Managing the relationship with the fund’s Intermediary Grant Maker (Better Youth Spaces Phase 1 and 2) including the monitoring and review of DCMS’s grant agreements with the fund’s delivery partners.Follow through on the payment plan as set out in the grant agreement, supporting the budget process by providing financial reporting.Work in tandem with the Youth Capital Portfolio Office Office to support early warning identification and remedial change control on the fund.Develop the stakeholder development plan, leading on a plan to engage young people for the £350 million Better Youth Spaces Phase 3 programme.Lead on sections of the Business case for Better Youth Spaces Phase 3.Leading on lines to take and correspondence coordination, with opportunities to draft /input into Ministerial submissions.