Project Manager (Core Investment)
| Posting date: | 29 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 6EU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75720125 |
Summary
Project Manager
Salary £37,938 - £41,511
Hours: 36.25 hrs per week
Tootal Buildings Manchester City Centre
Contract: Permanent
Advert closing date: 8th August 2025 23.59
About You
You are a proactive and solutions-focused professional with a passion for place-based regeneration and inclusive growth. You thrive in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and are confident in managing competing priorities. Your ability to build trusted relationships is matched by your attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
You’re confident navigating governance structures, managing budgets, and supporting on the delivery of strategic programmes that align with Greater Manchester’s long-term ambitions. You bring clarity to complexity, communicate with impact, and are comfortable working both independently and collaboratively. You’re adaptable and open to learning as you go.
Your Role
As a Project Manager within the Delivery Team, you’ll play a key role in supporting the delivery of Greater Manchester’s Growth Locations programme and wider regeneration priorities. You’ll lead on the coordination of quarterly revenue awards, support the capital pipeline activity, and ensure robust governance and forward planning are in place to support effective decision-making.
You’ll work closely with colleagues across GMCA, local authorities, and national partners to support the delivery of key project activity that contribute to the city region’s housing and place-making ambitions. From coordinating revenue awards, drafting funding agreements to preparing high-quality reports and managing procurement processes, you’ll bring structure, insight, and momentum to a diverse portfolio of work. Your contribution will help ensure that GM’s strategic prioritiessuch as the 10-Year Delivery Plan and Housing Firstare delivered.
About us:
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Our offer:
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:
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Hybrid working
This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our [Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location] with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.
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