Job Title: Project Manager
Advertised Salary: £34,000 - £39,500 + car cash allowance (£4,860 p.a.) + benefits.
*** 18 month fixed term contract ***
Location: Remote, with regular travel across our regional network. See here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/canals-and-rivers
We are the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.
We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our high performing delivery team; overseeing our 2024 £20m programme of externally funded projects.
Our projects focus on ensuring more people have access and ability to use our towpath and waterway network and ultimately benefit millions of people across England & Wales. Towpath improvement schemes funded by DfT, Sustrans’, local authorities form the core of the work, but National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England and a wide range of other funders allow us to deliver a range of projects including biodiversity improvements, interpretation and listed building work.
You will use your skills and expertise to develop projects from start to finish, work with our teams of third-party funders, heritage managers, ecologists, engineers, funders and local communities and of course our contractors. You will look for efficiencies and opportunities and be accountable for project safety. Delivering to the highest standard.
As one of our Project Managers you will be within the Project Delivery Team and play an important role in supporting our vision and delivering our Waterways and Wellbeing strategy ensuring our national waterways, are improved, managed & maintained for our visitors, customers & service users to benefit from. You may be new to project management; we will provide training and support from our Senior Project Managers.
How we make a difference (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/how-we-make-a-difference)
Work for us - What we do (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlNcPrMBjc)
Location & coverage
Offered on a remote working basis, with a requirement to attend our main hub spaces as and when required for team working and collaborative meetings. Significant travel throughout the regional waterway network will also be expected to enable site visits and to conduct improvements. You would be ideally located between Birmingham and the M4 corridor.
Locations include; Midlands and South – Gloucester, Milton Keynes, London or Birmingham Hubs.
Regular accessibility to this network is essential. See our network: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network