Local recruitment: Communications Project Manager

WaterAid

London, UK 🇬🇧

Job description

Communications Project Manager

Contract:  6 Months Fixed Term Contract, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £48,314 – £50,729 with excellent benefits

Location: London, UK
Hybrid Working: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base.

About WaterAid:
Want to use your skills in Communications and Project Manager to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.

Join WaterAid as Communications Project Manager to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. 

About the Team:
This role sits in the Communications department, which is part of WaterAid’s Communications and Fundraising Directorate. The Communications department is critical in building the brand and profile of WaterAid in support of delivering the Global Strategy, with a specific focus on the growth of our fundraising, advocacy, and campaigning goals. 

The department is a collective of 5 distinct teams: Brand & Strategic Comms, Creative Content, Digital & Content Experience, Media & Talent and Communications Planning. Within each discipline is a highly skilled and diverse team of industry leading specialists and experts, who come together to drive a strategic approach to communications to deliver on the organisations mission. 

About the Role:
AThe Communications Project Manager is responsible for leading the project management and the delivery to 2 discreet pieces of work at WaterAid UK. The first, a major global marketing campaign, and the second, a piece of sector leading research. 

The role will work across teams and departments to coordinate, steward, and facilitate the success of the projects through active stakeholder and task management, project transparency and supporting collaboration. They will ensure alignment with the set strategic goals of each project, drive key milestones and co-ordinate cross functional delivery teams.

This role is for an experienced project manager who is skilled in navigating complex environments, is a highly skilled communicator, and holds an understanding of communications as a marketing discipline.

You’ll also: 
Facilitating Decision Making and Delivery Progress

  • Chair and coordinate delivery groups and be accountable for delivery of the project on time, on budget and to a high standard of work.
  • Ensure key milestones are completed to appropriate timelines.
  • Responsible for the delivery of key drivers of progress such as briefs into specialist teams including analytics, market insight, creative content.
  • Support the delivery teams to make decisions and commit to actions. Resolve project challenges quickly by analysing issues, surfacing progress options, and implementing solutions to keep the project moving forward.
  • Support representatives within delivery teams to take ownership of their remits and actions – helping unblock challenges, holding them accountable to actions and managing up to steering teams.

Managing Stakeholders

  • Work across teams and departments to understand stakeholder needs and support and influence stakeholders to understand each other’s needs.
  • Make sure stakeholders are kept up to date and brought into conversations as appropriate for their remit.

Ensure Project Retrospective

  • Track project outcomes against defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and objectives.
  • Schedule and host project evaluation meeting.
  • Write up final project evaluation, including evaluation of project management processes and learning for future.

Project Documentation and Administration 

  • Define and deliver key documentation of the project including decision making accountabilities, transparent timelines and milestones, assigned responsibilities, communications plans, defined outcomes etc.
  • Track and raise dependencies with the delivery team – ensure progress is happening in a logical and feasible order.
  • Develop (through collaboration within the delivery groups) project KPIs to meet set Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) or defines outcomes.

Budget Control

  • Manage and track project budget, control expenditure and optimise resource allocation.

About You:

  • Experience in leading complex projects with large numbers of senior stakeholders.
  • Experience in establishing lines of delivery process where complex interdependencies exist.
  • Flexible and responsive. Able to adapt to changing environments and priorities as situations develop. Able to support delivery teams to navigate these environments while maintaining progress and quality of output.
  • Extremely organised and attention to detail, with a meticulous focus on project details to ensure quality and accuracy in all deliverables.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence and update multiple teams, both in the UK and overseas, and key stakeholders effectively.
  • Time Management: Ability to manage and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines and keep projects on schedule
  • Risk Management: Proficiency in identifying, analysing, and mitigating project risks.
  • Negotiation. Able to manage negotiation between multiple stakeholders, ensuring all are heard while still progressing action and maintaining positive working relationships
  • Experience in managing budgets for complex projects.

Although not essential, we also prefer you to have:

  • Project Management qualifications.
  • Experience working in the delivery or strategy of a communications or marketing function.
  • Experience working at or with INGOs, including cross-border working.
  • Proven experience in using project management technology or ability to quickly pick up such tools.

Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 13th November 2024. Shortlisting and interviews may take place on a rolling basis and the application process will close if a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date

How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format. 

Pre-employment screening: In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. All our vacancies require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.

Our Benefits:

  • 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
  • Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
  • We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
  • Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Free annual eye tests
  • Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
  • Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
  • Sabbaticals
  • Volunteer Day

Our Commitment

Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have.  We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.     

Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.

Safeguarding:
We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.


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