Environment Bank

Senior Project Manager

Environment Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementrisk managementfinancial controlplanningestimatingcommercial managementproject controlshabitat creationdocumentationquality management
Soft Skills
communication skillspresentation skillsinfluencingdecision-makingteam leadershipstakeholder managementproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementorganisational controlcollaboration
Certifications
APM accrediteddegree in relevant subjectequivalent professional experiencefull UK clean driving licence