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

Comic Relief reserves the right to close the role early if a large number of applications are received.

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.

As Project Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the overarching planning, management and coordination of projects. The majority of projects will be related to Comic Relief’s programme of strategic projects but could also include supporting other projects that are driving organisational priorities or change within the organisation. The role will work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure planning processes, project governance and reporting is developed and embedded into all activities.

The successful candidate will also support the development of Comic Relief’s approach to Project Management, providing expertise and modelling project management best practices.

Key responsibilities:

Project Management Office (PMO)

• Support the Development of Comic Relief’s Project Management Office by working with the PMO Manager to:

o   Develop, implement, and embed project management best practice and ways of working across the organisation.

o   Provide training and ongoing support for teams and individuals to improve Project Management practices.

• Support the PMO Manager to gain oversight, tracking and reporting of the full suite of strategic projects across the organisation.

• Work with the PMO Manager to identify and manage dependencies and risks of varying complexity across the full programme of strategic projects taking corrective action or highlighting issues for escalation as required.

• Work with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure consistency and alignment during the execution of the organisation’s projects.

• Represent project management best practice and identify and facilitate learning opportunities that create efficient and smart ways of working.

Project Management

• Work across a portfolio of projects, taking on the project management responsibility for select cross organisation strategic projects (managing multiple projects at a time).

• Manage projects across a full project lifecycle, including project briefing, scoping, set up, governance, planning, task management, communication, coordination and tracking and reporting.

• Work with Project Teams to ensure dependencies and risk are actively managed, acting as an arbiter and supporting the resolution of issues.

• Facilitate Steering Group meetings to ensure that projects are well managed and escalated risks/issues are resolved and the right information is provided to enable timely decision making.

• Use tracking and reporting tools and briefings/huddles that ensure that the progress of all project activity is communicated, changing the nature of these as projects develop.

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

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• An understanding of project management methodologies and experience of working with different approaches to project management

• 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

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of driving change management

• Accredited Project Management Qualification

• Experience leading internal steering groups.

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 recruitment@comicrelief.com to discuss further. Please do not email CV's/cover letters.