This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home 3 days a week.

PURPOSE OF JOB:   

This Project Manager will join the Business Services team at an exciting time as we launch new projects to improve our ways of working across the organisation. A number of key cross organisational strategic projects have been identified to enable Comic Relief to deliver against its five year strategy.

The successful candidate will be instrumental to our success by providing overarching planning, management, and coordination of select projects within Comic Relief’s programme of strategic projects; working with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure planning processes, project governance and reporting is developed and embedded into all activities.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to support Comic Relief as it makes changes to enable the organisation to succeed in achieving our vision of a Just World Free from Poverty.

Interviews are expected to take place on the 7th of November in our London office. candidates must be available to start by Monday 2nd December 2024.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee a portfolio of projects, taking on the project management responsibility for selected cross- organisational strategic projects (managing multiple projects simultaneously).

• Manage projects through their entire lifecycle, from briefing and scoping to set up, governance, planning, task management, communication, coordination and tracking, and reporting.

• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across the organisation to review key processes, including facilitating workshops and offering expertise and resource as required.

• Work with Project Teams to ensure active management of dependencies and risks, acting as an intermediary and supporting issue resolution.

• Facilitate Steering Group meetings to ensure effective project management, timely decision making, and resolution of escalated risks and issues.

• Identify and manage complex dependencies and risks across the programme, taking corrective action or escalating issues when necessary.

• Utilise tracking and reporting tools, as well as briefings and huddles, to ensure project progress is communicated, adjusting these as projects evolve.

• Engage with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure consistency and alignment in the execution of projects.

• Promote project management best practices and identify learning opportunities to foster efficient and innovative ways of working.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• An in-depth understanding of project management methodologies and experience of working with different approaches.

• Experience in developing and implementing new systems, tools and processes

• Experience of monitoring and evaluation of project performance, including objective setting, developing toolkits, reporting and driving the learning process with stakeholders to achieve ongoing effectiveness.

• A sound understanding of project budget development and analysis.

• Effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, and the ability to adapt to different styles and ways of working.

• Accredited Project Management Qualification

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of driving change management

• Familiarity with visualisation tools such as MS Visio.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why work at Comic Relief

There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London, There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work

Disability Confident employer

 As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV.

We ask that candidates that wish to be considered for this scheme email j.scott@comicrelief.com to discuss further. Please do not email CV's/cover letters.