Summary

This role will cover both the London & South East and South West regions. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager with significant construction experience to lead a multi-million-pound suite of visitor infrastructure projects in the London & South East and South West regions. As part of the  Grouped Project initiative, which groups similar projects for efficiency, this role will be pivotal in delivering an ambitious portfolio of projects for the National Trust. 

We protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive. We look after thousands of houses and close to a million objects, along with vast areas of coastline, countryside and green spaces, for everyone’s benefit. With our staff, members, volunteers and supporters, we’re the biggest conversation charity in Europe. Everyone can get involved, everyone can make a difference. 

We know that we can't serve our diverse audiences without firstly celebrating the diversity of our people. That's why we work hard to create an inclusive culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging. 

Salary: £50,000 - £52,000 dependent on experience

What it's like to work here

We’re bigger than you think, we’re more complicated than we appear and we’re larger scale than you’d imagine. We’ve got passionate people in all our teams, and we’ve got so much more we want to achieve. We’re for everyone, forever and we really mean that. The successful candidate will be working as part of the National Trust Consultancy - a multidisciplinary team of flexible and deployable experts with specialist skills and experience in every field of our work. Our purpose is to deliver the Trust’s Strategy by providing a great service to properties and collaborating across boundaries to make things happen.  

Your contractual location will be one of our regional hubs. However, for the first year this role will primarily focus on developing the pipeline of visitor infrastructure projects in London & South East, expanding to the South West the following year. You will be required to work flexibly and will have the opportunity to travel and attend site meetings at Trust properties. You will have the autonomy to manage your own time and decide which days you spend on site and there will be an opportunity to explore and agree remote working arrangements which strike the right balance for you and the Trust. 

We are committed to the personal and professional development of our employees. As well as internally available courses, we can also fund externally recognised professional project management qualifications.  

What you'll be doing

Every year more and more visitors are enjoying days out at the special places that we look after, and we need to ensure that we are managing our properties both for current visitor numbers and sustainable future growth. This means investing now in visitor infrastructure improvements, including our car parks and driveways, welcome buildings and visitor facilities, path and trail networks and sewerage system upgrades.

Working within the national Trust’s Project Management Framework, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for developing a suite of complex, high value, strategic projects and leading a team to deliver. These projects were paused during Covid and are at various stages of the project lifecycle. Alongside refining the scope and deliverables, activities for the successful candidate include reviewing business cases to ensure alignment with the Trust’s strategic priorities, establishing a deliverable project pipeline and resources to take the projects forward.

You will manage productive partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders and influence at a senior level within the National Trust. You will benefit from and play an active part in the Trust’s wider project management community - a network of sharing best practice and mentoring, as well as technical support and development, ensuring that our projects are delivering benefits in line with our national strategy. 

This is an exciting opportunity to shape our ways of working and realise benefits that optimise the allocation of financial and people resources. Ultimately you will be responsible for delivering the projects on time, on budget and to the agreed standard whilst creating a sustainable legacy for the future. 

Who we're looking for

The  candidate will have a successful track record of delivering multiple construction projects simultaneously to agreed time, cost and quality standards for projects with a value upwards of £3m each. A chartered building professional with a Project Management qualification or a qualified Project Manager with recent experience of managing complex building projects through the use of mixed discipline design teams would suit this role.

• You will have experience of successfully delivering complex end to end construction project/ programme management including defining resources, leading multi-million £ procurement, securing project teams and matrix management, across multiple projects/programmes. 
• You will hold a recognised project (ChPP /APM PMQ) or Pprogramme Mmanagement (MSP) qualification or Construction project management (RICS, CIOB, RIBA, IET) qualification and show evidence of ongoing CPD in your career to date and have experience mentoring others in the profession. 
• You will possess excellent communication, problem solving and influencing skills and be confident liaising with Senior Leaders up to Executive level, able to challenge and interpret advice of your design team and make recommendations to your governance board / Sponsor. Similarly, you will demonstrate experience of managing complex and contentious external stakeholder relationships 

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you – and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.

Benefits for working at the National Trust include:

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Free parking at most locations

• Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

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