Senior Project Manager - Technology

BBC; Salford; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Children in Need – Technology is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Technology to lead a portfolio of transformational projects aligning with the charity’s technology strategy. You will lead a team of project managers, work with senior technology and charity leaders, and ensure delivery, quality, and value.

This permanent, full-time role in Salford Dock House offers flexible working discussions at offer stage, a salary range of £48,000 to £58,000 depending on skills, knowledge and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading delivery of multiple concurrent technology initiatives with end-to-end accountability.
• Strong people leadership capability, building and developing diverse teams with clear expectations.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders to shape priorities and deliver outcomes in complex environments.
• Broad technology knowledge with hands-on involvement in design and delivery.
• Experience managing delivery governance, risk, budgets, and resourcing.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the BBC Children in Need Technology Roadmap, translating priorities into a sequenced portfolio.
• Provide inclusive leadership to a multidisciplinary delivery team and ensure delivery culture.
• Lead end-to-end delivery governance across the portfolio and ensure risk management and control.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape priorities and align technology delivery with fundraising and operational goals.
• Plan and manage delivery resourcing including suppliers and value for money decisions.
• Own delivery budgets and business cases, track costs and benefits, ensure value realization post go-live.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks and provide portfolio reporting on progress and outcomes.

Skills

Delivery leadership

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Technology knowledge

Governance & budgets

Job description

Job Details

JOB TITLE: Senior Project Manager – Technology – please note that this role is listed as Senior Project Manager on our internal careers path framework

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need – Technology

LOCATION: Salford Dock House

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £48,000 to £58,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the Role

As Senior Project Manager – Technology for BBC Children in Need, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of a wide range of transformational projects as we deliver our Technology Strategy to support the charity’s ambitious plans for the future. Leading a team of project managers you will work with the senior Technology Team and charity senior leadership to ensure our plans align to strategy and then manage resources, oversee delivery and ensure quality. This is your chance to influence strategy, drive innovation, and help set the charity up for a bright future.

Why Join the Team

As the BBC’s charity, our ambition within Children in Need is to create positive and lasting change across the UK for the children and young people who need us most.

You will play a leading role in an enthusiastic and close-knit team with a strong sense of shared purpose. Your work will have a huge impact as the charity evolves to sustain and grow the difference we make for children and young people.

Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Own and deliver the BBC Children in Need Technology Roadmap, translating organisational priorities into a clear, sequenced portfolio of programmes and projects that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Provide strong, inclusive leadership to a multidisciplinary delivery team; line manage performance, ensure wellbeing, build capability, and create a high performing, accountable delivery culture.
• Lead end to end delivery governance across the portfolio, ensuring appropriate decision making, assurance, risk management, dependency management, and alignment with organisational standards and controls.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across the organisation to shape priorities, manage expectations, resolve constraints, and ensure technology delivery supports fundraising, grantmaking, and operational goals.
• Plan and manage delivery resourcing across internal teams, contractors, and third party suppliers, including supplier performance, commercial oversight, and value for money decision making.
• Own delivery budgets and business cases, tracking costs, benefits, and outcomes, and ensuring benefits realisation beyond go live through effective change, adoption, and service transition.
• Actively identify and resolve delivery risks, technical challenges, and organisational blockers, providing clear, timely portfolio reporting on progress, issues, decisions, and outcomes.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience leading delivery of multiple concurrent technology initiatives, with end to end accountability from roadmap definition through to live operation and benefits realisation.
• Strong people leadership capability, with experience building, motivating, and developing diverse teams while setting clear expectations, standards, and accountability.
• Demonstrable experience working with senior stakeholders to shape priorities, manage trade offs, and deliver outcomes in complex organisational environments.
• Broad, current technology knowledge with hands on involvement in solution design and delivery, enabling informed decision making and effective problem solving.
• Experience managing delivery governance, portfolio level risk, budgets, suppliers, and resourcing within a structured but pragmatic delivery framework.

Desirable

• Experience delivering technology in charity, public sector, or regulated environments.
• Experience across CRM, finance, fundraising, grant management, eCommerce, or data integration platforms.
• Experience delivering cloud based solutions and data platforms, including integration and reporting capabilities.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail]

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.