Project Manager

St John Ambulance; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to oversee various strategic projects. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 GCSEs, proven project management skills, and experience in digital delivery. Responsibilities include creating project plans, ensuring governance standards, and leading new technology rollouts. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and a commitment to community health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Competitive salary

33 days holiday

Hybrid, Flexible working

Cycle to work scheme

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Health and Wellbeing portal

Discounts on various services

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs including Maths & English.
• Experience managing complex large projects.
• Proven experience transitioning projects to business as usual.

Responsibilities

• Create robust project and resource plans.
• Ensure governance adherence to SJA standards.
• Lead technology solution rollouts.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Digital literacy

Governance standards compliance

Education

GCSE level or equivalent

Qualified in programme and project management (e.g. MSP, APM, PRINCE2, Agile)

Job description

Overview

Project Manager – Hybrid – Full Time/Permanent

Closing Date: 22/12/2025

What we offer

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) – increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,400 employees and over 28,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, and Young Responders programmes).

Job Summary

Sitting within the Transformation team and working as part of a team of programme and project managers, the postholder is responsible for the management of a variety of (potentially concurrent) projects as part of delivering St John’s wider strategic roadmap. The postholder will be a skilled planner and able to communicate effectively with stakeholders of all levels. While operating across St John the postholder sits within the DDAT network and is expected to be Digitally literate and competent at managing technology-based projects as a core part of their remit.

The postholder forms strong relationships within DDAT and across the wider networks so that they can effectively bring stakeholders together to solve problems and close projects. Liaises across multiple teams and effectively matrix manages on assigned projects/programmes to ensure engagement and successful project delivery against agreed business expectations. Responsible for ensuring that the benefits stated within each project can be delivered, by ensuring there is clear ownership of deliverables – through efficient planning and holding others accountable.

About You

You will be educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C / 4), a minimum of 5, including Maths & English and qualified in programme and project management (e.g. MSP, APM, PRINCE2, Agile). You will have demonstrable experience of managing complex large projects (including digital delivery) from concept through to operational use, previously delivered a portfolio of business change projects with proven experience in transitioning projects to business as usual and experience of working in structured project teams following defined governance standards relating to project planning, resource management, RAID management, financial management.

Role Responsibilities

• Create robust project plans, resource plans, financial estimates and key milestones for assigned work, escalating and proposing possible solutions where necessary to the Portfolio Delivery Lead.
• Ensure robust and effective governance to SJA standards and principles; control and reporting maintained for all assigned projects. Ensure all team members understand their roles; ensuring project objectives and requirements are understood and met. Provide a point of escalation for individual projects.
• Establish and attend project boards to report project progress, finances, risks and issues to stakeholders and agree owners and actions for all project risks to ensure successful delivery.
• Lead new technology solution and delivery rollouts on allocated projects, including consultation with stakeholders to gather requirements and specifications, delivering solutions that are fit for purpose, on time and on budget.
• Gain and maintain an active understanding of the business and technology strategies and direction, using knowledge of business systems to align proposals for change with those strategies.
• Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply).

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.