Project Manager

Overview and Responsibilities

Project Manager

Location: Remote/Home-based

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 40 hours pw

Salary: £47-£52K

We are currently looking for an experienced Project Manager (Home-based) to join our Strategy Team. In this role, you will support a wide range of projects and initiatives across The Aurora Group, including the opening of new schools as well as business improvement opportunities.

The Aurora Group is one of the largest providers of SEND educational and care services in the country, supporting over 1,200 children, young people and adults, and employing over 1,500 staff spread across 27 services around England.

The Role:

It’s an exciting time to join Aurora as we are rapidly expanding our services and quickly growing in size. Your role will be to ensure the success of critical strategic projects by providing high quality project management to our Executive Team and other project members and stakeholders. The work will be varied and involve working with many different teams across the business.

You’ll be expected to maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, budgets and expenditure, identifying key dependencies and ensuring project deadlines are met. You will also ensure project documentation is up to date and accessible to project stakeholders and be responsible for communicating project progress on a regular basis. This communication will involve setting up and running project meetings, producing tracking documents, and highlighting risks, deadlines and other issues as required.

This would be a great position for an experienced Project Manager who enjoys a wide-ranging role.

Skills and Qualifications

Experience:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Previous experience as a Project Manager
• Prince2 / APMP qualifications or similar or willingness to study
• Project budget tracking experience
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent relationship management skills across a range of stakeholders at varying levels both internal and external
• Dependable attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Teams
• Excellent prioritisation, time management and workload management skills. Ability to cope under pressurised deadlines.
• Ability to work across organisational and geographic boundaries in developing collaborative approaches.
• Whilst the role is home-based, candidates will need to be willing and able to travel regularly to sites across the UK (which may occasionally require overnight stays)

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Enhanced annual Leave
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

How to Apply:

You can apply online. If you require any more information please contact liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.