Project Operations Manager

Premier Christian Communications Ltd; Greater London; Remote; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization is seeking a Project Operations Manager to oversee project delivery and operational strategy. The role involves managing diverse teams, ensuring financial accountability, and fostering an inclusive culture within the organization as they work to empower disabled individuals across Buckinghamshire.

Benefits

Company Pension Scheme

Flexible working

Standard holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Experience managing UK charity or not-for-profit projects.
• Proven track record in achieving project goals.
• Ability to manage staff and volunteers effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead BuDS’ projects, ensuring they meet targets and budgets.
• Develop and deliver the BuDS Operational Plan.
• Ensure excellent customer service and support to service users.

Skills

Project management skills

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Financial and budgetary controls

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Project Operations ManagerBuckinghamshire Disability Service (BuDS) is a user-led pan-disability charity operating primarily in Buckinghamshire. We are a successful, dynamic and influential charity, focused on supporting disabled people by fixing the biggest issues facing them. We aim to build a world which is Fair4All, including disabled people.Position: Project Operations ManagerSalary Range: £31,000 - £34,000 FTE depending on experienceHours: 37.5 hrs/weekLocation: Remote workingReporting to: Chair of TrusteesBenefits: Company Pension Scheme, standard holiday entitlement, flexible workingThe role:The primary purpose of the Project Operations Manager role is to provide leadership to ensure that BuDS’ project work is delivered successfully, to agreed targets, on time and within agreed budgets.Responsibilities:• To take charge of and lead BuDS’ projects, and the staff and volunteers working on them. Ensure project work is delivered successfully, to agreed targets, on time and within agreed budgets. This includes project reporting, overseeing and managing website, media, online and other communications activities related projects, and managing project budgets.• Contribute to the development and delivery of the BuDS Operational Plan.• With the Trustee Board and grants team, support the revival of appropriate dormant projects and the creation of new projects. Contribute to and endorse grant applications and ensure funder targets and goals are met.• Establish and maintain collaborative and positive working relationships with BuDS Trustees and key staff.• With the Support Manager, positively influence the culture within BuDS to ensure it remains an inclusive, diverse and effective working community and continue the charity’s policy of highly supportive and positive management of staff and volunteers, ensuring that BuDS Values are upheld.• Contribute to ensuring effective welfare and safeguarding policies are in place that are understood and regularly communicated to volunteers and employees.• Ensure BuDS delivers excellent customer service, so that service users, external organisations and partners receive high-quality service and support; and ensure any complaints or issues are managed promptly and satisfactorily resolved.• Represent BuDS and BuDS projects internally and externally.About you:BuDS is seeking an experienced charity operations and/or projects manager who can bring skills, expertise and knowledge into our rapidly expanding charity.Essential skills and experience:• Previous experience of successfully managing UK charity or not-for profit projects and/or services, including financial and budgetary controls.• A track record of proactive success in achieving project and service goals and outcomes.• Previous experience of successfully managing staff and, ideally, volunteers.• A proven ability to effectively plan and manage a mixed portfolio of tasks and activities, including managing your own time effectively.• A track record of personal learning and development, adapting to changing circumstances, and proactively meeting challenges.• Strong personal commitment to diversity and inclusion including the social model of disability. Must be able to work effectively with disabled people with all types of impairment.Desirable skills and experience:• Understanding impairments including neurodiversity, mental health, sensory loss, long-term conditions and physical disabilities.• A highly supportive management style which removes barriers for disabled staff and volunteers to allow them to work in ways which are most effective for them.• Knowledge of project management tools.About us:BuDS works by permanently removing barriers facing disabled people and finding answers to the big issues facing them, alongside helping individuals. Our projects and partnerships deliver unique and lasting change and effective support that helps nearly all the 41,000 disabled people in Buckinghamshire – plus many beyond our county.Uniquely, BuDS is a mainly voluntary charity. We have over 150 volunteers, mostly disabled people, supported by a small staff team, who themselves run our projects and services. Many of our volunteers are jobseekers or needing help to move forward in their lives and we actively support them by the way we work.How to apply: Please submit a CV with a covering letter (of no more than 500 words) setting out how you meet the person specification for the role.You may also have experience in the following roles: Operations Manager, Project Manager, Charity Operations Manager, Programme Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Operations Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Charity Project Manager, Non-Profit Operations Manager, Service Operations Manager, etc.REF-(Apply online only)

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