Senior Project Manager

St Monica Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry salary

Flexible work

Pension scheme

Holidays 27

Learning & development

Discount platform

Cycle to Work

Free parking

Eye care

Life Assurance

Refer a Friend

Gym subsidy

Job summary

St Monica Trust, Bristol-based charity, seeks a skilled Project & Change Lead to drive significant organisational change across multiple projects, ensuring outcomes, benefits and value delivery. You will oversee feasibility studies, business cases and cross-project plans, while engaging senior leaders and ensuring governance and risk control.

You will lead cross-functional teams, maintain regular reporting and model best practice to improve services for residents, customers and colleagues.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading complex projects and organisational change programmes.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams with competing priorities.
• Strong knowledge of recognised project/change methodologies (PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, MSP, Prosci).
• Experience creating business cases, options appraisals and investment proposals.
• Excellent planning, governance, risk, dependencies and benefits tracking.
• Ability to engage senior leaders, executives and boards effectively.
• Comfort leading through ambiguity and driving delivery in complex environments.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen including budgets and procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of major organisational change, transformation and improvement initiatives.
• Manage cross-project planning, costs, quality, scope, time and risk.
• Develop robust business cases and benefits realisation strategies.
• Maintain auditable records of cost control and benefits tracking.
• Engage stakeholders and maintain ownership across projects, including post-change BAU.
• Provide regular progress reports to senior stakeholders and governance bodies.
• Model best practice and share learning with PMs.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Risk management

Communication

Budget management

Leadership

PRINCE2

Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner

APM PMQ

MSP

PMI-PMP or equivalent

Job description

At St Monica Trust, we're a Bristol-based charity with over 100 years of supporting older people to live fulfilling, independent lives. Through our retirement villages, care homes and charitable foundation, we're committed to creating communities where older people flourish through connection, contribution and choice.

In this role, you'll play an important part in supporting us achieve this vision and helping shape the services, systems and experiences that make a real difference to people every day.

You'll bring your expertise to an organisation where purpose and impact go hand in hand. Whether through specialist knowledge, problem-solving, innovation or collaboration, you'll help drive continuous improvement and support the delivery of exceptional experiences for residents, customers and colleagues.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The purpose of this role is to lead the delivery of significant organisational change, transformation and business improvement initiatives within a complex and growing not-for-profit organisation. Working across multiple projects or programmes of work, the role is responsible for ensuring successful delivery on behalf of the Project Sponsor, achieving agreed outcomes and benefits within defined tolerances for cost, quality, scope, time and risk. Through effective project leadership, stakeholder engagement and governance, the postholder will support the Trust in implementing strategic priorities and driving sustainable improvements across services, systems and ways of working.

• Ensure feasibility studies and the development of project proposals and business cases are robust from financial and commercial, technical (and other relevant) perspectives.
• Maintenance and ownership of auditable records of cost control, benefits realisation, communication and time plans throughout the life of the projects and post-change.
• Build, influence and maintain stake-holder engagement and ownership in readiness for the complexities of a range of organisational change initiatives and projects, including post-change.
• Responsibility for the development of fully integrated plan(s) to ensure synergy and cross-reference across projects, their planning/implementation and post-change business as usual processes.
• Problem solve and trouble shoot at a range of levels across the organisation in relation to the projects.
• Ensure regular progress reports are distributed to relevant key stakeholders.
• Role model and deliver best practice and learning opportunities to PMs.

About You:

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate the following key skills and requirements:

• Proven track record of successfully leading complex projects and organisational change programmes from initiation through to benefits realisation.
• Extensive experience managing multiple workstreams, projects or programmes simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and organisational objectives.
• Strong knowledge and practical application of recognised project and change management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, Managing Successful Programmes, Prosci).
• Demonstrable experience developing business cases, options appraisals and investment proposals to support strategic decision-making.
• Highly proficient in project planning, governance, risk management, dependency management and benefits tracking.
• Experience working with and influencing senior leaders, Executive Teams, Boards and key stakeholders across an organisation.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, challenge constructively and drive delivery within complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including responsibility for significant budgets, procurement activity and supplier management.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and creating high-performing collaborative working environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to tailor messages for a range of audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, using data and insight to inform decision-making.
• Experience embedding sustainable change and ensuring operational readiness and adoption following project delivery.
• Project Management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, MSP, PMI-PMP or equivalent)
• Experience within health, social care, housing, charity or not-for-profit sectors.
• Experience of digital transformation, service redesign or operational improvement programmes.
• Experience establishing or improving project governance frameworks, PMO standards and project management capability within an organisation.

Why Join St Monica Trust:

• Be part of a purpose-driven charity with over 100 years of supporting older people.
• Use your professional skills to make a meaningful contribution to communities where older people flourish.
• Join an organisation guided by its values of Connection, Contribution and Choice.
• Work alongside passionate, talented colleagues who are committed to making a difference.
• Be part of an organisation that encourages innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Access excellent training, learning and career development opportunities.
• Enjoy a supportive working environment with a competitive rewards and benefits package.
• Take pride in knowing your work contributes to improving the lives and wellbeing of older people across our communities and beyond.

In Return You Will Receive:

• Industry leading salary
• Flexible working for a better work/life balance.
• Workplace pension scheme with up to 7.5% employer contribution
• 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) plus extra after 5 years
• Tailored ongoing learning and development opportunities to grow your skills, confidence, and career.
• Cost of living support: Free employee retail discounts platform
• Credit union savings and loans
• Subsidised meals
• Subsidised pool and gym
• Eye tests and glasses
• Employee Assistance Programme and well-being support
• Life Assurance at 4x salary
• Refer a Friend bonus scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free parking and much more.....

Additional Information:

• Duties must be carried out in compliance with St Monica Trust’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
• Duties must be carried out in compliance with current UK GDPR and with St Monica Trust’s Confidentiality and Data Protection Policy.
• This role profile contains the principal accountabilities relating to this post and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and this means that any criminal conviction, including spent convictions, must be made known at the time of the application.