Project Manager (Pride in Place)

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 28 September 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 20 September 2026

Contract Type: Temporary for 23 months

Salary: FC9 £47,604.34 to £57.196.54

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week

Location: Inverkeithing Civic Centre (although travel will be required throughout West Fife Villages)

Supporting Statement

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Job Details

The Pride in Place Programme is a new government funding programme, aimed at putting power into the hands of local people in some of the most in-need neighbourhoods across the UK, so that they can decide how to regenerate their local area. It gives communities control of £2m every year for the next 10 years, to be spent on projects that will make a real difference to the neighbourhoods they live in.

The West Fife Villages Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of the Neighbourhood 10-year vision and Investment Plan.

• Accountable for implementing and overseeing a live and iterative risk register, ensuring proactive management and mitigation measures are in place, with accountability for addressing issues and ensuring these are effectively resolved
• Implement and manage a robust application and assessment framework to enable the Neighbourhood Board to receive, consider and allocate funding for projects on a fair, consistent, inclusive, relevant, and transparent basis
• On project approval, manage the drafting, issuing and monitoring of grant funding agreements clearly setting out the terms of the contractual relationship and ensuring subsequent claims are correct and compliant with programme requirements and the council’s decision-making process
• Accountable for all financial and programme delivery reporting, including timely and accurate information relating to the tracking, recording, reporting and cash flow of all programme expenditure
• Accountable for ensuring all monitoring and evaluation requirements are fulfilled, with accurate and timely drafting of performance returns to MHCLG
• Collaborate with the Communications and Engagement teams to develop and deliver supporting communication and engagement plans
• Model council values and behaviour, including wider best value principles, and support realisation of the council’s role as the accountable body
• Ensure all activities comply with the council’s constitution, policies and procedures, including financial regulations and relevant legislation such as Data Protection Act, health and safety and safeguarding responsibilities
• Uphold and promote the council’s equality, inclusion and diversity policies. Embed diversity, inclusion and strength-based working practices across all ways of working and delivery, with a focus on enabling the borough’s more vulnerable residents, and the communities and partners least likely to engage.