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About the Role

We are seeking an organised and proactive Project Manager to support client project delivery during a maternity cover period. This part-time role involves planning, coordinating, and monitoring projects to ensure timely, within-budget, and high-quality delivery. You will maintain client relationships, coordinate teams and contractors, track progress, manage risks, and ensure clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects from initiation through to completion.
• Agree project scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and priorities.
• Monitor progress against key deadlines, budgets, and agreed outcomes.
• Maintain clear and proportionate project documentation.
• Coordinate project meetings and follow up on agreed actions.
• Support the effective closure and handover of completed projects.
• Support project profitability through effective planning, resource coordination, and budget monitoring.
• Act as the main day-to-day contact for clients on assigned projects.
• Build positive working relationships with clients and project stakeholders.
• Coordinate internal teams, contractors, and suppliers.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, upcoming activity, and decisions required.
• Ensure client queries and concerns are responded to promptly and professionally.
• Confirm project resource requirements and coordinate availability across internal teams and external contractors.
• Ensure project teams have the information and documentation needed to complete their work.
• Manage competing priorities across the assigned project portfolio.
• Identify and record project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Agree appropriate actions with the project team.
• Monitor actions and escalate significant risks, delays, or blockers where required.
• Monitor project budgets, costs, and time spent.
• Maintain accurate project forecasts.
• Provide project information to support client invoicing.
• Produce clear and concise project status updates and client reports.
• Keep project systems, trackers, and records up to date.
• Support the review and quality assurance process for client deliverables.
• Maintain meeting notes, action logs, risk registers, and project plans.
• Support project reviews and lessons learned, identifying practical improvements to processes and templates.

Requirements

• Experience managing client projects and delivering work to agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Eligibility for Security Clearance and willingness to undergo the required vetting process.
• Strong organisational, planning, and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong client, stakeholder, and relationship-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate internal teams, contractors, and suppliers to achieve project objectives.
• Confidence using project-management, collaboration, and Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Ability to work independently, identify risks and issues, and escalate matters appropriately.
• A practical, solutions-focused approach and the flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how effective project delivery supports business performance and client outcomes.
• Experience working within a consultancy, professional-services, technology, security, risk-management, or public-sector organisation (desirable).
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, to improve efficiency, organisation, and project delivery (desirable).
• A recognised project-management qualification, such as PRINCE2, APM, or AgilePM (desirable).

Skills

• Project Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication (Written and Verbal)
• Organisational Skills
• Planning
• Prioritisation
• Team Coordination
• Contractor Coordination
• Supplier Coordination
• Risk Management
• Issue Management
• Budget Monitoring
• Financial Monitoring
• Reporting
• Administration
• Microsoft 365 Tools (Teams, Outlook, Excel, Word)
• Project Management Tools
• Collaboration Tools
• AI-enabled Productivity Tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) (desirable)
• PRINCE2 (desirable)
• APM (desirable)
• AgilePM (desirable)

Location

• Hybrid
• Remote
• London (for client meetings)
• In-person team days (monthly)

Work Type

• Part-time
• Fixed-term contract
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Depending on experience

Education Level

• Recognised project-management qualification (desirable)

Salary/Compensations

• £27,000–£30,000 per annum (based on 24 hours per week)