ICBSE Project Manager
Are you an experienced Project Manager with a talent for driving results through collaboration?
Join a leading professional body as a Project Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract, leading a high-impact review of an essential examination framework. You'll work with senior stakeholders and specialists from diverse fields to ensure this review meets its ambitious goals, ensuring the exam continues to meet vital training requirements.
Benefits - Project Manager:
- Salary: £34,416 per annum
- Location: Central London
- Working arrangements: Hybrid - 1 day per week office based, pro-rated across 4 weeks
- Travel: Occasional travel required for in-person meetings across the UK
- Employment type: 12-month fixed term contract
- Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week
- Proposed start date: ASAP, pre-new year if possible
About the organisation - Project Manager:
This leading professional body is embarking on a significant professional review project, ensuring alignment of key examination standards with training requirements. By joining this team, you'll play a key role in advancing the organisation's mission to uphold excellence, integrity, and collaboration across the profession.
About the role - Project Manager:
As the Project Manager, you'll coordinate a structured review, ensuring clear project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Working closely with the Director of Exams, you will manage various workstreams with a team of 15-20 contributors, including clinical and training leads.Your expertise will help to drive the project forward, tracking key milestones, budget adherence, and quality standards throughout.
Key responsibilities - Project Manager:
- Implement established project plans, ensuring timely progress across all phases.
- Facilitate engagement with senior stakeholders, external consultants, and working groups of 5-10 people.
- Maintain project documents, budgets, risk registers, and Gantt charts for seamless project execution.
- Act as the main point of contact, ensuring clear and consistent updates for all contributors and stakeholders.
- Track project performance, provide regular updates, and proactively address any challenges to stay within scope.
Skills / Experience required - Project Manager:
- Demonstrated experience in project management, ideally within education, awarding, professional or healthcare sectors
- Skilled in using project planning software, with a solid grasp of risk management and budget tracking
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and summarise complex information
- Detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines consistently
- Knowledge of postgraduate education, particularly within medical or healthcare fields, is advantageous
To apply:
- CV only, no covering letter required.
Interview process:
- The interview process will be a single stage, likely including a presentation outlining your approach to managing the review.
Deadline for applications:
- We encourage early applications to support the project's timeline, aiming for a start date before Christmas.
- Interviews will commence as soon as suitable candidates are identified.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.