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Facilities Project Manager

Employer
RSPB
Location
Flexible
Salary
£27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Closing date
2 Jul 2021

Job Details

Facilities Project Manager
Reference: JUN20212450
Location: Flexible
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual Leave

As the leading conservation charity in the UK, with a workforce of over 14,000 employees and volunteers across all 4 countries of the UK, the RSPB has an ambitious programme of work transforming its approach to saving nature.

Recognising that people are the heart of delivering this we have an exciting and new opportunity for a talented project manager to join the RSPB’s workplace, facilities & logistics team.

Reporting to the Head of Facilities Development, you will play a critical role in delivering the RSPB’s workplace change programmes projects. We recognise our workplaces need to be at a consistent standard to support talent retention and attraction. They must contribute to enabling our staff and volunteers to be the best they possible they can be at work, engaged, productive and with high well-being whilst improving accessibility, inclusivity and diversity through the built environment.

Projects will be delivered using the RSPBs Project Management Framework, successfully delivering the outputs and objectives of those projects. The successful candidate will provide core project management support around workplace change for the RSPB across all four UK countries and at UKHQ (The Lodge, Sandy). As well as providing support to functional areas impacted by activities like auditing and monitoring of standards and the assessment process of other change activity.

Key Result Areas will include

  • Putting in place the right governance structure to keep their projects on track and ensure adherence to our strategic priorities
  • Producing relevant project documentation (including highlight reports)
  • Ensuring that stakeholders, including customers, are kept fully involved and informed
  • Estimating and managing the project(s) duration determining when activities and events are planned to happen - ensuring the timely completion of the project(s)
  • Identifying, recording, managing and communicating risks and issues, putting in place appropriate contingency actions - to reduce the likelihood of events that might prevent project outputs and objectives being delivered on time
  • Agreeing and implementing a quality strategy - to determine what are the acceptable standards for the outputs and objectives of the projects Manage the project budget against forecast, estimate costs, ensure that exceptions beyond tolerance are escalated and approved - so that project costs are kept within agreed tolerances
  • Ensuring that all changes made to project baselines are managed effectively - to prevent scope creep
  • Taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiate corrective action where required – to keep the project on track
  • Directing and motivating the project team – to achieve project success by focussing on a common goal
  • Managing handover to ‘business as usual’ by formally bringing the project to an end, preparation of any follow on actions required and communicate to others where relevant
  • Contribute to sharing of project management best practice across the RSPB

Essential Skills and Experience we are looking for

  • Project Management Qualification or appropriate training
  • Experience of working with external stakeholders such as agencies and contractors
  • Demonstrable experience of developing and working in partnerships to achieve shared outcomes
  • Competent IT user (e.g. MS packages, Outlook etc)
  • Attention to detail and ability to understand financial systems
  • Demonstrable leadership ability, able to lead without line management authority
  • An ability to produce clear written communications
  • An ability to persuade and influence a wide range of people, both internally and externally
  • Demonstrable ability to manage changes within projects
  • Excellent problem solving skills and ability to find creative solutions
  • Able to work under pressure and adapt to changing circumstances
  • Demonstrated ability to provide advice and interpretation of policy and procedures associated with project management
  • Logical & methodical, analytical and a good eye for detail
  • Proven time management and organisational skills.
  • Experience of working to a standard project management approach (eg RSPB Project Management Framework, Prince II)
  • Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of delivering a number of projects
  • Experience of Benefits Realisation
  • Cost and budget management

Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience of working on workplace or workforce projects or programmes

This is a permanent role working 37.5 hours per week and we are flexible on the base location for the successful candidate.

Closing date: 22:59, 02 July 2021

Interested?

Please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

No agencies please.  

Company

The RSPB (the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) is a large, national charity dedicated to the conservation of birds and other wildlife and the environments on which they depend. Founded in 1889, the RSPB has more than a million members, over 2,000 employees and 13,500 volunteers. RSPB’s UK headquarters are in Bedfordshire and it has an annual income of nearly £133 million.

RSPB carries out conservation work in many different areas. It runs a network of 200 nature reserves covering almost 13,000 hectares, which are home to 80% of the UK’s rarest or most threatened bird species. It works with farmers to identify wildlife friendly farming methods, researches bird populations and partners with international conservation organisations.

RSPB is also an advocacy organisation, lobbying the government on diverse topics such as planning, wind farms and economics. It has a UK headquarters, three national offices and nine offices in the English regions. Its million-plus members, 200,000 of whom are youth members, make it the largest conservation organisation in the UK. RSPB also has 150 local groups and more than 80 youth groups. It has a volunteer to staff ratio of 6:1.

The charity was founded in Manchester in 1889 as the Plumage League (initially as a campaign against the killing of birds for the fashion industry). It received a Royal Charter in 1904, becoming the ‘Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’. RSPB moved to its present headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire, in 1961.

One of the RSPB’s most popular activities, carried out for children since 1979 and for adults since 2001, is the Big Garden Birdwatch. The Birdwatch is an annual data collection of bird populations that takes place every January. In 2016, 519,000 people were involved, counting over 8 million birds. The Birdwatch enables RSPB to build a picture of garden wildlife across the UK. It has shown, for instance, that the sparrow population has declined by 60% since 1979.

RSPB also urges supporters to ‘make a home for nature’ in their gardens. Activities include creating feeding stations and homes for hedgehogs, providing flowers and plants for moths, creating habitats for frogs and toads and forming safe corridors from one garden to the next.

RSPB, along with sister organisations, Stop Climate Chaos Cymru and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, is part of The Climate Coalition. It argues that the effect of climate change on wildlife and wild places can already been seen and that increased flooding and rain from climate change will spell disaster for birds and wildlife.

RSPB is also a member of BirdLife International, a global partnership of conservation organisations that share common objectives.

RSPB is a major fundraising charity and spends around 90% of its income on conservation, public education and advocacy.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01767 680 551
Location
The Lodge,
Potton Road,
Sandy,
Bedfordshire
SG19 2DL
GB

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