Key information

Hours per week: 3 / 0.6 FTE

Work pattern: Part-time, flexible working (schedule to be agreed)

Salary: £32,000 (FTE) / £19,200 (0.6 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term – 12 months (potential to extend)

Location: Hybrid, must be UK-based. Mostly remote (c80%), with some London-based company meetings and events and in-person project events around the UK (c20%)

Reporting to: Director

Benefits include: Generous 28 days annual leave, 5% pension provision, flexible working, family-friendly culture, and wellbeing focus.

PLEASE READ APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED AT THE END OF THIS ADVERT BEFORE SUBMITTING. ONLY CORRECTLY SUBMITTED APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED.

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly skilled project manager to join our small, friendly and hard-working team.

We are Laurelle Brown Training and Consultancy (LBTC) was founded in 2017, as a response to the persistent challenges and discrimination faced by racialised children across the services and support systems they rely on. We collaborate with leaders to tackle the complex equity and inclusion challenges they face.

We are a dynamic and busy organisation, with 5 staff members, and a pool of associate consultants and trainers that support delivery of our work. Our team work remotely, and attend team meetings in London (where the company is based) a couple of times a year.

We’re looking for a project manager with technical and knowledge skills. Someone who can deliver high-quality project management, value and impact across a range of client projects and programmes. You will champion results-focused project management effectively, collaboratively, innovatively and in alignment with our methodology.

You will have successfully developed, implemented, and completed complex projects and programmes; clearing obstacles to delivery; engaging senior leaders, establishing a productive virtual work environment; agreeing realistic commitments and identifying risks, dependencies and issues, ensuring resolution.

This role is particularly suitable for a strategic thinker with strong virtual project skills and an understanding of the children and young people sector in the UK.

Projects vary in nature; however, a third of your time will be dedicated to a long-term racial equity programme focused on improving adoption outcomes for Black children and communities across London.

A substantial proportion of our work focuses on racism, marginalisation and discrimination and as such we welcome applications from those with personal experience of these issues, and who are typically underrepresented in senior leadership roles. This includes individuals that identify as racialised, care experienced and/or LGBTQ+.

Full job description can be found: https://shorturl.at/dfvBH

About you

Qualifications

Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification and/or demonstrable experience and achievements in similar roles

Project management or change management qualification

Demonstrable Experience

Project and programme management: Managing complex cross-organisational projects/programmes, with a proven ability to establish, confidently and competently use, and efficiently maintain systems and processes for virtual working.

Policy development: Developing and implementing project management frameworks/methodologies, policies and processes.

Research and knowledge application: Researching good practices, utilising knowledge bases, including academic research and policies, and distilling relevant information for change projects.

Stakeholder management: Successful collaboration and management of stakeholders across sectors, including providing and receiving complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiating with senior stakeholders on difficult or controversial issues, and presenting complex information to influential groups, and communities and/or young people.

Reporting and monitoring: High-quality report writing and developing tools to track and monitor various project information, demonstrating progress and impact.

Sector-specific experience: Managing multiple projects in public or voluntary community sector.

Relationship building: Building strong relationships with leaders, particularly in the public sector, and a track record of effective opportunity development.

Financial management: Managing project budgets and contracts/Service Level Agreements against agreed targets and outcomes.

Measuring impact: Delivering, monitoring, and evaluating the impact of projects, utilising various methods, tools and metrics

Adaptability and innovation: Successfully working in a dynamic and developing environment, driving forward complex change and transformation using innovation to achieve social impact.

Skills, knowledge and approach

Project management expertise: Very good theoretical project management knowledge and understanding, strong project management IT systems skills and financial numeracy skills, with meticulous attention to detail in administration.

Communication skills: Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate consistently, confidently and clearly for a range of audiences. Good listening skills.

Deadline management: The skills to work under tight deadlines, plan and efficiently use time to complete tasks on time while working with conflicting deadlines and prioritise accordingly.

Strategic planning: Highly skilled in developing plans for short, medium, and long-term timeframes, with the ability to efficiently adjust plans and resource requirements based on project performance and client demands, and clearly communicate changes to stakeholders.

Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills: Very good ability to build relationships, influence, win confidence, and negotiate with stakeholders, including clients, colleagues and project teams.

Adaptability and pace: Strong ability to operate in a fast-paced, start-up environment and/or with high-profile projects and clients. Thinking methodically and anticipating problems before they arise.

Communication and IT proficiency: Highly organised and communicative, with strong time management skills. Confident user of IT systems, including MS Office, virtual apps (Zoom), and project management software.

Problem-Solving and independence: Problem-solving skills, ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands from stakeholders, including senior leaders. Strong independent working skills, confident in making autonomous decisions on difficult issues.

Passion and commitment to equity and inclusion: Passion and understanding of equity, inclusion, and anti-racism; operating with an integrous and open approach.

Entrepreneurial and flexible approach: Self-starter who is entrepreneurial, able to think strategically, and with a flexible and adaptable approach. Comfortable working in complexity and across systems.

Context awareness: Understanding of the children and young people sector, including knowledge of issues affecting racialised children across statutory or community services.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 9am, Monday 15th January 2023.

TO APPLY:

Candidates must submit an application that consists of a CV of no more than 3 pages and cover letter of no more than 2 pages, explaining how they fulfil the person specification.

Applications submitted without both a CV and cover letter will not be accepted.

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.