Project Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced project manager to join our national professional community, to lead the rollout of our climate impact assessments at our properties.

A changing climate affects our places in both obvious and unexpected ways, and we need to obtain a high-level understanding of the climate risk we might face in every place.

We’re resolved to playing our part, by doing all we can to support global action on climate change. It’s one of our key cross-cutting national objectives, to adapt to the reality of climate change; every choice we make will take account of the need to be resilient and adaptable to a changing climate.

We’d love to hear from you if you have experience in climate and environmental risk management and procedures along with knowledge of the climate and environment agenda, understanding legislation, policy, practice, and guidance.

This is a 3-year Fixed Term Contract or Potential Secondment Opportunity, internally this role is known as ‘Project Manager’.

This role will cover the South of the UK with regular travel across properties to complete work.

What you’ll be doing

With outstanding organisation and people skills you’ll be responsible for the planning and, if needed, delivery of the impact assessment workshops, and subsequent prioritisation of the key hazards identified, and the thresholds for adaptive action. You’ll also be responsible for reporting on the national aggregation of risks and impacts.

You’ll work alongside our climate environment advisors, technical lead for climate adaptation and climate adaptation project manager, planning and delivering workshops, managing diaries, timescales, and quality, to ensure the project delivers.

You’ll use your experience in managing project delivery and organisational skills to take on board complex information, and the needs of a variety of stakeholders to contribute to the reporting process regionally and nationally.

This will include:

• developing the core support pack for the workshop
• organising workshop event logistics
• assisting/ supporting or leading on facilitating of impact workshops
• collating observed climate impact information, adaptation response and draft necessary reports
• developing back-office document/ records system
• supporting climate impact and adaptation reporting to feed into reports and communications

Who we’re looking for

You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached. You don’t need to have all the knowledge, skills and experience listed in the role profile; this is just to provide a full picture of what is possible in this role.

For this position we’re looking for someone who has:

• Solid project management skills, able to make decisions and drive projects forward to timescales and scope, writing and implementing successful communication plans, and matrix management.
• Ability to communicate confidently with individuals and groups.
• Ability to deliver clear succinct advice/guidance using written reports and presentations.