Vacancy: Project Manager - Strategic Delivery

The Project Manager (Strategic Delivery) is a key delivery role within Strategic Partnerships, Programmes and Policy Directorate, responsible for leading and managing strategic delivery projects. The postholder will work closely with the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Programme Delivery, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams to drive the successful delivery of strategic initiatives that align with BCS’s organisational goals.

With a strong grounding in structured project delivery and a collaborative, pragmatic approach, the Project Manager will take ownership of end-to-end project lifecycles, managing scope, risk, budget, and stakeholder relationships with confidence. Experience within a membership body, professional association, or regulated not-for-profit environment is highly desirable

Key responsibilities:

Project Delivery & Planning

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical path analysis.
• Manage project budgets, including forecasting, tracking expenditure, and providing financial reporting to the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Programme Delivery and senior stakeholders.
• Ensure all projects are initiated, planned, executed, and closed in accordance with the BCS’ Programme Management Office’s (PMO) governance framework and delivery standards.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues, escalating where appropriate and maintaining RAID logs throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage change control processes, assessing the impact of scope changes on timelines, budgets, and resources.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, business owners, technology teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Act as the primary point of contact for project-related communications, providing clear, timely, and accurate updates to all stakeholders.
• Prepare and present project status reports, highlight reports, and governance packs for senior leadership and board-level audiences.
• Translate complex delivery information into accessible language for non-technical stakeholders and business decision-makers.
• Facilitate workshops, project steering groups, and working groups, ensuring outcomes are clearly documented and actions tracked.

Transformation & Change Management

• Support the design and delivery of business change activities associated with transformation programmes, working with business leads to embed new ways of working.
• Contribute to the development of business cases, options appraisals, and post-implementation reviews.
• Champion continuous improvement across project delivery practices, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within the PMO.
• Supplier & Resource Management
• Manage relationships with external suppliers and delivery partners, holding them accountable to contractual obligations, quality standards, and delivery milestones.
• Lead on procurement and onboarding of suppliers where required, working within BCS’s procurement governance.
• Work with the Head of PMO to ensure resources are appropriately allocated and planned across the project portfolio.

PMO Contribution

• Contribute to the ongoing development of PMO standards, templates, tools, and processes.
• Support the Head of PMO in maintaining an accurate and up-to-date view of the project portfolio, including status, risks, and financial position.
• Leverage AI and digital productivity tools to accelerate project documentation, reporting, and analysis.

Personal Development

• Actively engage in structured development activities aligned to team needs and personal growth.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practice development within the PMO.

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

No recruitment agencies please.

How to apply: Please apply by submitting your CV to careers@bcs.uk along with a cover note answering the following questions:

(a) Your area(s) of expertise & qualifications;

(b) Your experience and suitability for the role

We look forward to hearing from you!

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