Project Manager - UK Financial Wellbeing Strategy Review

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Job summary

A leading financial wellbeing organization is seeking a Project Manager to oversee the UK Financial Wellbeing Strategy Review. This role involves coordinating cross-nation planning and engaging stakeholders to enhance financial wellbeing across the UK. Ideal candidates will have experience in complex project management and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays

Pension scheme with matched contributions

Cycle to work Scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Paid volunteering (2 days a year)

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong project management capabilities, including planning and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills for engaging senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day project delivery and risk management.
• Develop clear project plans and maintain timelines.
• Ensure alignment with strategic plans and statutory duties.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Risk management

Evaluation management

Job description

Project Manager - UK Financial Wellbeing Strategy Review

c.£66000 per annum

Bedford

18 month FTC

Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Project Manager – UK Financial Wellbeing Strategy Review. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by leading the end-to-end delivery of the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing review and refresh, coordinating cross-nation planning, stakeholder engagement, evaluation, and publication activities. You’ll work at the heart of a collaborative effort involving Country Managers, policy and insight teams, evaluation partners, and Devolved Governments to shape a strategy that improves financial wellbeing across the UK.

You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

Role Overview

The Project Manager – UK Financial Wellbeing Strategy Review will report directly to the Country Managers. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining a clear project plan and critical path for the review and refresh process, aligned with internal governance and external stakeholder timelines.
• Leading day-to-day project delivery, including planning, risk management, budget tracking, and reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinating the commissioning and delivery of the evaluation with Ecorys, in close collaboration with MaPS’ Insight and Evaluation Team.
• Integrating MoneyView survey data into the analysis of progress against national goals, working with Strategy and Insight and Evaluation teams.
• Planning and facilitating stakeholder engagement across the four nations, ensuring inclusive and effective input into refreshed delivery plans.
• Preparing high-quality reports, briefings, and presentations for governance groups, Executive Committee (ExCo), Board, Devolved Governments, and stakeholder partners.
• Overseeing publication planning, working with Communications and Digital teams to prepare materials for external audiences.
• Ensuring alignment of the project with MaPS' Strategic Plan (2025–28) and supporting the organisation’s statutory duties.
• Maintaining clear and effective communications with internal teams and external partners throughout the project lifecycle.

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.

To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience in leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects or programmes, ideally within public sector, policy, or strategy environments.
• Strong project management capabilities, including planning, risk management, stakeholder mapping and engagement, and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to produce clear briefings and confidently engage senior stakeholders.
• Experience in managing evaluation or insight activities as part of project delivery.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a clear focus on delivery and outcomes.
• Collaborative and inclusive working style, with the confidence to build strong relationships across internal teams and external partners.

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding of financial wellbeing, financial inclusion, or the consumer policy landscape across the UK.
• Experience working with Devolved Governments and a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating workshops, roundtables, or stakeholder consultation processes
• Experience in writing strategies or business cases

About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:

• Caring
  We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• Connecting
  We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• Transforming
  We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

What We Offer

• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers

Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process

The application process will consist of the following stages:

Applications must be submitted by 20 August 2025 and should include a covering letter, explaining your motivation for applying for the role and suitable experience.

• Telephone interviews will be conducted between 6 August and 21 August 2025.
• CV sifting will take place on 22 August 2025.
• In-person interviews will be held at our Bedford office on 3 and 4 September 2025.

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: [e-mail]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Job Reference: MaPS00915

Close Date: 20/08/25