Project Manager

We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to our regional legacy development programme working 15 hours a week on a 12-month FTC.

You’ll play a critical role enabling us to deliver on our fundraising objectives and be at the heart of creating successful supporter engagement for the long term.

You’ll project manage the next phase of the regional legacy development programme within our Fundraising team. The programme is currently in the latter stages of a pilot, and you will play an important role in helping us take the learning from the pilot to build out a national programme of activity in legacy development.

Please be aware that there will be some travelling to and working at Trust properties for project and programme meetings when required.

This role will sit in the Fundraising team alongside a cohort of brilliant people. The team lead for ‘Making it Happen’ and you’ll be well supported and connected to the people you’ll need to make the programme a success.                       

We appreciate this is a large geographical area and you will have autonomy to manage your own time and the amount of travel. There will be an opportunity to explore and agree remote working arrangements which strike the right balance for you and the Trust.

Your contractual location will be our head office in Swindon and there will be an expectation for you to attend the office. However, there is flexibility on where you are based at other times. You will be required to work at a National Trust location for 40-60% of your working week. This will be discussed in more detail at interview.

You'll coordinate and manage both the pilot and planned roll out of a wider programme of supporter legacy development at the National Trust. Your role will have a national focus given the scale of the programme and its aims.

The programme is at a key moment in its delivery and so a lot of the tasks will focus on establishing the right on-going programme structure, tracking and managing milestones associated with our deliverables working in collaboration with the Regional Legacy Development Managers (RLDMs)

Other tasks will include all the normal things you would expect to be doing as great project leader such as administering the board and steering group, managing the comms plan and keeping a track of how and who we talk to about the programme at the most relevant time.

You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached, this is just to provide a full picture of what is possible in this role, we’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience of successfully delivering projects end to end in the role of project manager including leading multidisciplinary project teams, matrix management and managing internal and consultants across a large geographical area.
• Knowledge and experience of Project Management in a fundraising context would be helpful.
• A recognised project (APM PMQ /Prince) or programme management (MSP) qualification and demonstrate evidence of ongoing CPD in your career to date.
• Communication, problem solving and influencing skills and be confident liaising with Senior Leaders, demonstrating experience of managing complex and contentious external stakeholder relationships.
• Experience of developing and delivering projects that involve new approaches or new areas of work in a large complex organisation.

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Tax-free childcare scheme

• Rental deposit loan scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places

• Independent financial advice

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