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Project Manager
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to deliver community-focused projects that create positive, lasting change across Devon.
Salary: £32,453 per annum
Location: Exeter, Devon, with hybrid working
Hours: 36.25 hours per week, full time
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 21 September
Interviews: Thursday 1 October
Benefits include a generous pension, 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible hybrid working.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to manage a varied portfolio of projects supporting rural, coastal and market town communities across Devon.
Working with communities, partners, funders and stakeholders, you will take projects from development and planning through to successful delivery, ensuring they are delivered on brief, on budget and on time.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing community development and regeneration projects, including budgets, resources, monitoring and reporting.
- Engaging with communities to identify local needs and develop community-led solutions.
- Supporting community groups, charities, social enterprises and small businesses through information, advice and training.
- Developing and delivering consultancy projects and contracts.
- Building effective relationships with funders, statutory bodies, voluntary sector organisations and other partners.
- Delivering presentations, training and community engagement activities.
- Supporting monitoring, evaluation and impact reporting.
- Representing the organisation at meetings, networks and external events.
About you
You will be an organised, proactive and collaborative project professional who is comfortable managing a complex workload and working with a wide range of people.
You will need:
- Extensive project management experience, including budget management and reporting.
- Proven experience of engaging effectively with local communities.
- Experience of managing multiple projects, priorities and deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating training.
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience of using CRM systems such as Dynamics.
- Confidence using digital tools to support reporting, research and stakeholder engagement.
- The ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
- Degree-level education or evidence of working at an equivalent level.
You will also need to be able to travel across Devon for meetings and be willing to work occasional evenings and weekends.
About the organisation
You will be joining a charity working to ensure rural, coastal and market town communities are thriving, sustainable and inclusive places to live and work.
The organisation works alongside communities to build capacity, address local needs and create stronger, more connected and resilient communities. It is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive working environment where everyone can make the best use of their skills.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Community Project Manager, Programme Manager, Community Development Manager, Community Engagement Manager, Project Officer, Community Development Officer, Rural Development Officer, Programme Officer or Community Partnerships Manager.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client – Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
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Project Manager
These are exciting times for the charity, and we have an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager with experience of successful delivery in systems implementations to join the busy Business Strategy & Programmes Team
Position: Project Manager
Location: East Devon/Hybrid (site attendance currently estimated to be one day per week)
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week, 08.30-16.30, Monday-Friday
Salary: £44,886 per annum
Contract: 2-year fixed term contract starting as soon as possible
Closing Date: Monday 7 September 2026 Please note this role may close earlier than advertised so apply as soon as possible.
Interview Date: Via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 September.
About the Role
As Project Manager, you will oversee and lead the planning, communication, implementation and delivery of projects of significant strategic benefit to the charity, involving operational teams and management at all levels. These projects sit within a global Technology Transformation Programme of work reporting to the Senior PM.
Your principal duties and responsibilities will include:
- Taking an active part in designing, adapting and delivering plans necessary to meet the aims and objectives of each project.
- Leading in implementation management and monitoring/evaluation of delivered projects through relevant phases of an end-to-end project lifecycle.
- Managing, escalating and communicating project progress and issues to senior management in relevant project/programme meetings.
- Providing Project Management expertise to Project sponsor(s) and Senior Project Manager to ensure projects are delivered on time, to quality and within agreed budget for achievement of benefits realisation.
- Active management of related risk, issue, decision, action and benefits tracking tools to regularly report on progress and areas of escalation.
- Working closely with the Change Manager and wider project team to ensure stakeholders have sufficient engagement and support opportunities to enable adoption success.
- Actively encouraging the generation of new ideas and opportunities across the organisation, gathering lessons learned, to improve structures, processes and adoption of different ways of working.
About You
You will have:
- Holder of a recognised formal project management qualification (APM/Prince2/PMD Pro or equivalent).
- Proven success in the management and delivery of multiple complex, concurrent projects in a busy environment with varying priorities, budgets and time frames.
- Evidence of delivering successful system implementation projects through a typical project lifecycle, ideally with experience of organisation wide ERP implementations
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrable experience of establishing, building and maintaining successful stakeholder relationships.
- Able to lead and motivate project teams.
- Demonstrable evidence of creating and implementing new processes.
- A good understanding of the principles of good change management associated with large scale system implementations.
Benefits include:
- Competitive pension.
- Life assurance – 2 x annual salary
- 31 days holiday (including Bank holidays), rising to 34 will each full year of service.
- Wellbeing team.
- Recorded Pilates and Yoga classes.
- Long service awards.
- Healthshield plan
- Free parking.
- Life assurance.
- Subsidised restaurant and shop.
About the Organisation
Join one of the UK’s largest international animal welfare charities, currently supporting projects in over 35 countries worldwide, working for a world where donkeys and mules live free from suffering and their contribution to humanity is fully valued.
The Charity is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults) and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.
You may also have experience in areas such as Project Manager, Project Lead, Project Officer, Project Deputy Manager, Lead Project Manager.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
SOS UK is looking for a Project Manager to deliver our engagement work with a focus on our Climate Action Fund programme – Student Energy Action for Life (SEAL).
Role details
Location: Home working in (or close to) London, Midlands or Manchester
Working patterns: 1 FTE (35 hours per week) with typical working times between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. The role includes weekly travel with early starts and late returns, and approx. 6 overnight stays a year.
Salary: Starting salary £32,289 per annum, rising to £36,843, plus London Weighting of up to £3,655 pro rata where applicable. We also provide up to a 6% pension contribution and life assurance.
Contract: Fixed term until December 2029
Closing date for applications: 31st August 2026 at 11.59pm
Interview dates: 14th September 2026 (TBC). All interviews will be held online.
About the role
This role will be primarily focusing on our Climate Action Fund programme – Student Energy Action for Life (SEAL), with opportunity to contribute towards our wider engagement programmes. SEAL has a twofold vision; to support students navigating the home energy system and to improve access to student energy efficient properties via landlord engagement and student campaigning.
Key responsibilities include:
- Engage, maintain and develop strong relationships with key stakeholders particularly landlords and students' unions, as well as students, volunteers, universities, local authorities, and other key organisations.
- Support landlords, student letting agencies and students’ unions to improve the energy efficiency of student accommodation, focusing on implementing energy efficiency initiatives, advice and support.
- Plan, design, and deliver engaging training sessions to a variety of audiences.
- Provide support for students’ union officers and other student campaigners working on housing energy efficiency campaigns, including the design and implementation of a national student home energy campaign.
- Support with the creation and management of sector wide student energy efficiency advisory groups including a home energy efficiency network, student advisory group and stakeholder advisory group.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of programme resources and communications, including social media and website updates.
- Recruit, coordinate, and support student volunteers including line management of student staff when required.
Please read a full description of the role’s responsibilities and person specification (knowledge, skills, attributes, qualifications and experience) in the role profile.
Introducing SOS UK
SOS UK is a UK based charity transforming education so people protect the climate and nature.
Our education system helped cause the climate and nature crisis, but now we’re making it the solution. We are fighting to make sure everyone develops a commitment to protecting the earth and puts it to work – whether it’s at school, university or in their careers.
By empowering students and educators to build a better world, we can transform the lives of generations to come. In just a few years we have developed unstoppable student leaders. Behind these leaders every step of the way is the SOS UK community making sure students don’t have to fight for change alone. We unite people from every background, inside and outside education, because protecting our earth matters to each and every one of us.
Our education system helped cause the climate and nature crisis, but now we’re making it the solution.
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