Assistant Project Manager- Regents Park Storeyard

About Us

The Royal Parks (TRP) is a charity created in March 2017. We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London. These are Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.

We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens. Our eight Royal Parks and other iconic green spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with 77 million visits every year.

We are now looking for an Assistant Project Manager to join us on a full-time basis for a two-year fixed-term contract.

The Benefits

• Salary of £32,000 - £37,000 per annum
• 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays
• Pension scheme (3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution)
• Hybrid/agile working options
• Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
• Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
• Learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Offices in a beautiful location

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified project manager with great financial acumen to join our prestigious organisation.

You’ll work on an ambitious project in a historically-rich location, making a tangible impact on community engagement, sustainability, and heritage preservation.

What’s more, you’ll be supported to grow and excel in your role with an outstanding range of benefits, great perks and plenty of training and development opportunities.

The Role

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will provide project management support for the delivery of the Regent’s Park Store Yard Project (RPSY) and a new garden in The Regent’s Park to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

After the removal of plant nursery operations from Hyde Park in 2018, it was decided to return the nursery site and adjacent yard space in The Regent’s Park to parkland.

Working with both the Projects and Landscape Teams, you will work on the delivery of an exciting new garden at The Regent's Park, supporting technical design, enabling works, demolition, and construction phases of the project.

You will assist both the Construction Project Manager and Senior Landscape Manager in a range of project management, administration, contractor focussed and finance activities.

Additionally, you will:

• Manage various work streams within the larger project
• Oversee higher value or more complex elements of projects
• Act as the initial point of contact for the project team
• Provide financial and administrative support
• File key project information

About You

To be considered as an Assistant Project Manager, you will need:

• Experience of undertaking timely and accurate processing of purchase orders, payments and commitments reporting to support accurate financial control
• Experience of working with finance data
• Experience of providing administrative support for committees, boards and meetings
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
• A project management qualification e.g. NVQ level 4, APM, PRINCE2, relevant degree, or equivalent practical experience

Other organisations may call this role Project Manager, Project Officer, Project Support Officer, Project Supervisor, Assistant Project Lead.

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The Royal Parks is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Please visit our website to find out more on our approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as an Assistant Project Manager, please apply via the button shown. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.