Senior Project Manager

Role Overview

• Act as the primary governance and process enforcer across all projects in your region, ensuring adherence to Environment Bank’s project management framework, standards, and gateway requirements.
• Own and manage the full end-to-end project lifecycle, including gateway approvals, assurance activities, and documentation.
• Establish and maintain strong project controls, including risk, schedule, cost, change, and quality management.
• Lead the creation, maintenance, and optimisation of project processes to improve visibility, traceability, and organisational control.
• Provide oversight across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring they are well-governed, compliant, and progressing in line with agreed methodologies.
• Provide top level oversight of all projects in your region becoming the single point of contact and information for the national programme manager and Ops Director.
• Develop and own the integrated, end-to-end project plan, coordinating inputs from ecologists, habitat creation specialists, consents managers, and contractors.
• Monitor and support the setup and ongoing management of complex habitat bank sites, ensuring robust planning, sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Chair project meetings, drive decision-making, and maintain high-quality communication across multidisciplinary teams.
• Manage the project risk register, programme, and assurance schedule, ensuring proactive mitigation and escalation where required.
• Ensure safe delivery of all works, promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and internal standards.
• Set, manage, and monitor project budgets across the full lifecycle, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost control, and financial governance.
• Oversee contractor performance, KPIs, and delivery quality, ensuring works meet specification, timescales, and budget.
• Provide clear, timely reporting on project progress, risks, issues, and performance to internal stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project information across relevant systems and tools.
• Lead lessons-learned activities, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and embed with the prog manager into future ways of working.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, helping to refine processes, strengthen governance, and enhance project delivery capability across the organisation.

Requirements

• Proven ability to lead and govern multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring strong project control and adherence to process.
• Experience managing project controls functions, including planning, estimating, financial control, and commercial management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and drive action across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong project management capability, with a deep understanding of both the technical and behavioural aspects of programme delivery.
• Experience delivering projects with consent/permit restrictions and/or seasonal constraints.
• Demonstrable experience in risk management and structured project governance.
• Full UK clean driving licence and willingness to travel for regional site visits and events.
• APM accredited or equivalent.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in habitat creation, restoration, or nature recovery projects, ideally in a project management capacity.

Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary
• Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary
• 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation
• Hybrid flexible working option
• Regional and departmental team co-working days
• Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year
• Team fundraising and charity events
• Ongoing career development with training and mentoring
• Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs
• Employee assistance mental wellbeing support
• Enhanced sickness pay allowance