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About the Role

The Senior Project Manager provides project leadership and coordination for Zinc projects, managing day-to-day delivery, tracking timelines, budgets, risks, and deliverables. This role involves coordinating across internal teams, partners, and clients to ensure high-quality, timely, and budget-adherent project execution. The Senior Project Manager will represent Zinc professionally in client and partner engagements, offering technical and delivery insights, and escalating critical issues with recommendations.

Responsibilities

Manage and coordinate the day-to-day delivery of project activities, translating strategic and client requirements into practical workplans, activity trackers, and deliverable schedules.
Oversee project timelines, milestones, budgets, and deliverables, tracking progress and ensuring internal, client, and donor requirements are met.
Lead regular client and donor reporting, including quarterly and annual reports, collating evidence of results, risks, adaptation, and learning.
Maintain project documentation and compliance records, including deliverables, decision logs, risk trackers, partner records, approvals, and evidence of progress.
Support quality assurance of client-facing reports, deliverables, and communications before senior review and sign-off.
Manage day-to-day client, partner, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring clarity on responsibilities, expectations, deadlines, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
Act as a key point of contact for project logistics and coordination with partners and internal teams.
Represent Zinc professionally in client meetings and partner engagements, building trusted operational relationships and escalating strategic or high-risk matters.
Prepare briefs, meeting notes, and follow-up materials for client, partner, and high-level stakeholder engagements.
Track project budgets and financial information in coordination with the Project Director, finance, and operations colleagues.
Support operations team members in procurement, contracting partner logistics, travel arrangements, and other operational processes.
Identify safeguarding, security, or reputational risks early and propose practical mitigations.
Understand the commercial and contractual requirements governing each project, including scope, deliverables, invoicing, procurement, and wider compliance.
Escalate material budget, compliance, procurement, partner-performance, or delivery issues to the Project Director with clear evidence and recommended next steps.
Coordinate the day-to-day work of multidisciplinary project teams and external partners, ensuring colleagues understand priorities, responsibilities, deadlines, and dependencies.
Enable effective collaboration between researchers, analysts, strategists, creatives, MEL specialists, operations staff, technical specialists, and regional partners.
Provide task guidance, coaching, and quality feedback to junior project staff or partner focal points where assigned.
Identify resourcing pressures, workload risks, performance concerns, or coordination barriers and escalate them to the Project Director with proposed solutions.
Contribute to written strategy documents, research reports, project updates, and other programme documentation as required.
Provide operational insight and, where relevant, technical guidance on partner activities such as research, publications, campaigns, journalistic investigations, policy development, and civil society engagement.
Use progress data, partner feedback, audience insight, contextual analysis, and lessons learned to improve implementation and support evidence-based decision-making.
Support the integration of research, strategy, creative, MEL, and partner insights so that programme activities reinforce one another and remain focused on measurable change.
Contribute to project expansion, adaptation, and follow-on activity development by identifying delivery insights, client needs, partner opportunities, and lessons from implementation.
Support the Project Director and senior leadership with inputs to proposal sections, programme extensions, budgets, workplans, case studies, and opportunity development.
Capture project learning, evidence, and delivery examples that can support future business development and Zinc's wider reputation.
Use external engagements to identify emerging opportunities, risks, and stakeholder priorities, and feed relevant intelligence back to the Project Director and business-growth leads.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent experience, in international development, communications, international relations, journalism, regional studies, social sciences, security studies, behavioural science, or another relevant field.
Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in fast-paced, international environments.
Strong understanding of project delivery cycles, including planning, implementation, reporting, compliance, performance tracking, and learning.
Excellent organisational, administrative, logistics, documentation, and budget-tracking skills, with close attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing reports, briefs, meeting notes, client-facing documentation, and project updates.
AI-first mindset, with confidence using digital tools and AI-powered systems to enhance efficiency, coordination, analysis, and documentation.
Ability to work effectively under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain sound judgement in sensitive or rapidly evolving contexts.
Disclose any previous disciplinary action resulting from a substantiated safeguarding or workplace investigation, including any breaches involving trafficking-related activities.
Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry check (where available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.

Skills

Project Management
Communication
Reporting
Budget Tracking
Risk Management
Stakeholder Engagement
AI Tools
Digital Tools
Behavioural Science
Strategic Communications
Information Integrity
Media Literacy

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Flexible Working Hours

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Master's degree or equivalent experience

Benefits

Competitive Pension Scheme
Season Ticket Loan
Private Healthcare
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Free Eye Test Vouchers
Free Daily Breakfast
25 days annual leave per year
8 UK bank holidays

About the Company

For over fifteen years, Zinc Network has been helping governments and businesses navigate the world's most complex challenges using communications, technology, and behavioural science.
We work on some of the toughest briefs: protecting children online, strengthening democratic resilience, and championing purpose-driven technologies and organisations.
Working in partnership with a global network of media outlets, communities, and influencers, we help clients understand complex issues, design and deliver behavioural interventions, create compelling campaigns, activate trusted grassroots networks, and evaluate impact.
We're now building Kora — our AI-powered platform that systematises this expertise into scalable technology, enabling clients to work faster, more impactfully, and more cost-effectively.
We're looking for people who want to operate at the intersection of geopolitics, security, and technological disruption, and who are committed to building a safer, more secure world.

Equal Opportunity

Zinc Network is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all professional, cultural, and personal backgrounds.