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Project Manager
We are recruiting for a Project Manager to join the IPS Grow team.
Position: Project Manager (IPS Grow team)
Location: London/Hybrid
Hours: Full-time
Salary: £59,500
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 5:00pm, 29th Jul 2026
First round interviews (virtual): week commencing 3 August 2026
Second round interviews (in person): week commencing 10 August 2026
About The Role
You will primarily be responsible for developing and managing projects. These projects can be incredibly varied with a complex array of stakeholders making for an exciting career. Some of the skills that you will be using include:
- Strategic, analytical & creative thinking
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- People management
- Communication skills
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Plan and define project scope
- Coordinate and lead teams working in a matrixed way
- Manage budgets and resources
- Monitor project progress
- Risk management
- Quality assurance
- Document and report
- Lead on evaluation
About You
Skills, experience and qualifications we are looking for include:
- Passion for developing and supporting team members.
- Ability to organise and structure thinking in developing approaches/plans with teams and clients.
- High level of trust, integrity, empathy, and commitment to driving social change.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, curious nature, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
- Good communicator who is comfortable working with teams, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Willingness to develop understanding of regulatory compliance and risk management requirements.
- Ability to manage teams to produce accurate, thoughtful, high-quality work to deadlines, understanding and working through client need.
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About The Organisation
Join an ambitious not for profit organisation that helps to design, fund and scale better solutions to complex social problems, with a vision is a fairer world where together we unleash the potential of people and communities. This is done by working in partnership with local and national governments, funders, communities and the social sector to tackle complex and enduring social problems in the UK and across the world.
Ready to make your own impact on these issues? Then come and join the team.
The multi-skilled team of over 120 people come from diverse backgrounds in the public, private and charity sectors, all sharing a passion for making change happen. The organisation provides a high-quality training and development programme in-house with great opportunities for career progression. They are a friendly and intellectually curious bunch, always up for a debate.
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Equality, diversity and inclusion
We actively encourage applications from under-represented and minoritised groups, including those with lived experience of the social issues we are working to address. The organisation is an equal opportunities employer and support a range of flexible working options. The application process uses Applied, a platform developed by the Behavioural Insights Team, to record your application. Applied is focused on using behavioural and data science to improve hiring decisions and minimise unconscious bias in the recruitment process. You will be asked to respond to four situational based questions, which will allow you to express your ability.
Other roles you may have experience with could include IPS Grow Manager, IPS Grow Project Manager, IPS Grow Lead, IPS Grow Programme Manager, Project Manager, Programme Manager, Programme Coordinator.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
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