7370 - Senior Project Manager
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £56,532 to £69,338 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £56,532 - £64,048, London salary range is £61,201 - £69,338. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7370 |
Summary
Job role: Senior Project Manager
Grade: G7
Directorate: Property
About us
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and want to make a difference in people’s lives in delivering justice. If you’re interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.
About the role
The role as a Senior Project Manager within the Capital and Major Projects Team in HMCTS Property Directorate offers a unique opportunity to assist in improving the justice system around the needs of all those who use it by delivering projects that deliver new and improved premises. The opportunities offered will enable you to access professional development including an enhanced and tailored development plan, and access to the unique Government Property Profession career framework, not to mention your participation in some of the country’s most ambitious projects.
As an experienced property project manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a number of interdependent, large scale, complex or contentious projects. This will include the associated business change activities and establishing appropriate governance and assurance processes, monitoring progress, monitoring risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change. The role requires professional expertise in the effective use of project management methodologies and techniques. You will be responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of these projects. You will have effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
Being accountable to a G6/Senior Civil Servant, you will manage projects which are high-profile, large scale or complex where the risks to be managed are significant. In this role you will have overall accountability for your projects, operating with considerable freedom. You will be comfortable working with infrequent management guidance.
Delivery of results through others and effective negotiation at senior levels will be key. Senior Project Managers develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships and influence others where there may be divergent and conflicting views. This role requires significant leadership, management, representational and influencing skills both within the organisation and with external stakeholders. Work at this level can have a major impact on the achievement of departmental objectives or bear a significant risk for the department.
Finally, you will be expected to coach and mentor junior team members across the wider profession to build professional capability.
Your role as the Senior Project Manager encompasses several key aspects (but not limited to):
Delivery (management and leadership)
Lead and be responsible for managing a number of interdependent, large scale, complex or contentious property capital projects where the risks to be managed are significant.
Project Management (autonomy and own decisions)
Lead and manage the overall integrity and coherence of property capital projects. This includes the day-to-day management and leadership of the projects and the programme team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between project phases.
Drafting Business Cases (impact and own decisions)
Provide expert support and guidance to enable development of the Business Case or Project Briefs, with input from specialists as necessary.
Budget (impact)
Lead on developing, securing, and agreeing budget forecasts across a number of interdependent projects to enable delivery to be tracked against budget.
Resources (management & leadership)
Use leadership knowledge and experience to understand skillset required to deploy and develop resources across a number of complex projects. Direct line management of a medium sized team.
Benefits Realisation (impact)
Develop and maintain Benefits Realisation Strategy, working alongside Finance colleagues to develop benefits models to ensure benefits can be tracked, and monitored to ensure the longer-term delivery of benefits against the business case.
Stakeholder Management (informing & advising and impact)
Develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships and influence others where there may be divergent and conflicting views. Provide support and advice to project teams based on knowledge and previous experience taking ownership when required to ensure relevant outcomes are achieved. Provide assurance to senior leaders on the effectiveness of stakeholder management arrangements.
Risks & Issues (impact and own decisions)
Manage the risks in respect of high-profile, large scale and complex property capital programme/projects. Taking accountability for ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place or is developed and risk are being actively managed. Provide assurance to senior leaders that effective risk management is in place and escalation is controlled and managed effectively.
Grade: G7
Directorate: Property
About us
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and want to make a difference in people’s lives in delivering justice. If you’re interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.
About the role
The role as a Senior Project Manager within the Capital and Major Projects Team in HMCTS Property Directorate offers a unique opportunity to assist in improving the justice system around the needs of all those who use it by delivering projects that deliver new and improved premises. The opportunities offered will enable you to access professional development including an enhanced and tailored development plan, and access to the unique Government Property Profession career framework, not to mention your participation in some of the country’s most ambitious projects.
As an experienced property project manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a number of interdependent, large scale, complex or contentious projects. This will include the associated business change activities and establishing appropriate governance and assurance processes, monitoring progress, monitoring risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change. The role requires professional expertise in the effective use of project management methodologies and techniques. You will be responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of these projects. You will have effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
Being accountable to a G6/Senior Civil Servant, you will manage projects which are high-profile, large scale or complex where the risks to be managed are significant. In this role you will have overall accountability for your projects, operating with considerable freedom. You will be comfortable working with infrequent management guidance.
Delivery of results through others and effective negotiation at senior levels will be key. Senior Project Managers develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships and influence others where there may be divergent and conflicting views. This role requires significant leadership, management, representational and influencing skills both within the organisation and with external stakeholders. Work at this level can have a major impact on the achievement of departmental objectives or bear a significant risk for the department.
Finally, you will be expected to coach and mentor junior team members across the wider profession to build professional capability.
Your role as the Senior Project Manager encompasses several key aspects (but not limited to):
Delivery (management and leadership)
Lead and be responsible for managing a number of interdependent, large scale, complex or contentious property capital projects where the risks to be managed are significant.
Project Management (autonomy and own decisions)
Lead and manage the overall integrity and coherence of property capital projects. This includes the day-to-day management and leadership of the projects and the programme team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between project phases.
Drafting Business Cases (impact and own decisions)
Provide expert support and guidance to enable development of the Business Case or Project Briefs, with input from specialists as necessary.
Budget (impact)
Lead on developing, securing, and agreeing budget forecasts across a number of interdependent projects to enable delivery to be tracked against budget.
Resources (management & leadership)
Use leadership knowledge and experience to understand skillset required to deploy and develop resources across a number of complex projects. Direct line management of a medium sized team.
Benefits Realisation (impact)
Develop and maintain Benefits Realisation Strategy, working alongside Finance colleagues to develop benefits models to ensure benefits can be tracked, and monitored to ensure the longer-term delivery of benefits against the business case.
Stakeholder Management (informing & advising and impact)
Develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships and influence others where there may be divergent and conflicting views. Provide support and advice to project teams based on knowledge and previous experience taking ownership when required to ensure relevant outcomes are achieved. Provide assurance to senior leaders on the effectiveness of stakeholder management arrangements.
Risks & Issues (impact and own decisions)
Manage the risks in respect of high-profile, large scale and complex property capital programme/projects. Taking accountability for ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place or is developed and risk are being actively managed. Provide assurance to senior leaders that effective risk management is in place and escalation is controlled and managed effectively.