Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Project Manager for our client a local government organisation based in Bristol.
The successful candidate will join the Environment team and work on a major infrastructure programme.
Key responsibilities in this role would be to ensure a focus on delivering the priorities of the Metro Mayor by: Integrating environment into an infrastructure programme; Ensuring the delivery of a one year task and finish work programme; Managing a team and assessing projects on their environmental performance.
This is initially a 3 month contract which may be extended for the right applicant. This role will be Hybrid working.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Manage the work programme to deliver the project objectives, milestones, and timescales.
- Collate, review, and decipher legal, grant agreement, policy, project and technical documents and brief the technical experts to gain their input efficiently and effectively into setting out the environmental requirements.
- Interpret and collate the technical expertise input into concise, clear, and consistent project documents for project managers.
- Adopt a proportionate and risk-based approach for integrating the environment across the CRSTS programme.
- Set out clear requirements for the business case development stages, stage gates, grant agreements (where applicable), contracts, health and safety, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Manage the technical experts to deliver the assessment and appraisal of CRSTS projects in respect to meeting their environmental requirements.
- Develop the approach for evaluating, monitoring, and auditing CRSTS projects in relation to their environmental requirements.
- Keep track of project finances, costs of environmental work and their communication.
- Act as an ambassador for the Environment Directorate and the Mayoral Combined Authority in all interactions with external stakeholders.
- Create and update project documentation, including timelines, risk registers, etc., and ensure project delivery to tight deadlines.
Personal Requirements:
- Educated to degree level or with equivalent work experience.
- Professional qualification in project management and/or equivalent experience in project management, ideally applied in infrastructure design and construction.
- Knowledge of the wider climate and nature emergencies and national, regional, and local responses to it.
- Demonstratable experience of integrating environmental issues into projects or delivering environmental projects.
- An understanding of environment regulations/legislation/policy (Desirable).
- Qualification or experience in relevant project management disciplines and their practical application (Desirable).
- IEMA qualification (Desirable).
- Knowledge of Business Case development for public sector funding in the UK, ideally in the infrastructure sector (Desirable).
Working Hours: 09:00am - 17:00pm, Monday - Friday
Pay: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.