Senior Project Manager – Social Care

Job Description

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it’s employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As a Senior Project Manager you will be reporting directly to the Principal Account Leader Social Care.

A bit about the team

Our social infrastructure portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in key sectors of education, health, social care, and communities. Our work stretches from running time limited projects and programmes through to managing the £43m per year Adoption Support Fund on behalf of the government. We are expanding our team and have an exciting opportunity for a qualified social worker to join our advisory business, in the social infrastructure team.

The focus of this exciting opportunity is to help us develop our business across social care and take the lead on the delivery of projects, working with a range of clients across Local Authorities to Government departments such as the Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, and Cabinet Office. The successful candidate would be expected to help lead teams, manage senior stakeholders, and help to grow the business.

What you will contribute to the team;

Delivery of high quality work for our clients.

Ensuring client requests are dealt with in a timely, professional and quality manner

Opportunity to shape the direction of this growing business

Producing bids and other business development opportunities

Client engagement for specific accounts

Providing leadership within our business and mentoring to teams

Contributing to the wider team and organisation through other project work when requested

Candidate Specification

Required for the position of Senior Project Manager;

Experience of project management in large and complex projects for Government Departments and/or Local Authorities

Qualified social worker

Experience in project management

Substantial experience working in the public sector or on public sector contracts

Preferred, but not required

Excellent communication and organisational skills and ability to liaise at all levels with both internal and external shareholders

Experience across a range of sectors is desirable

Highly motivated and with excellent networks

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Able to work in a fast-paced environment whilst being under pressure

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Job Profile

About the business unit

The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.

The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management.

Our education health and care portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in key sectors of education, public health and social care. Our work stretches from running training courses attended by individual teachers through to managing the £19m Adoption Support Fund on behalf of the government.

In many instances we operate under the Cambridge Education brand which provides synergy with other global education activities in the Group.

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited – which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force!

Benefits we offer:

Pension matched up to 7%

Life insurance

An annual professional institution subscription

Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive

Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5

Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers

Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance

Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans .

The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

Other Information

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can assist.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

More about Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy.

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence