Project Managers

Outside of London, Birmingham is the UK's most diverse city and has the largest number of young people in its city than any of its European counterparts. Birmingham is on a journey of significant change, ready to reset, reshape and restart. To do this well we recognise that we need to strengthen our permanent arrangements across fundamental functions by increasing internal expertise and capacity. Birmingham's Children and Families Directorate are recruiting a series of posts to expand the Strategy, Governance and Planning service. This is truly an exciting opportunity to showcase your skills, knowledge, and experience to facilitate meaningful change for the children, young people, and families of Birmingham. Our team ethos is centred on appreciation for individuality and individual contribution and expertise and the value of this to the team's collective success and ability to sustain positive outcomes. We strive to ensure that our working environment is inclusive, supportive, and empowering. In the Children and Families Directorate we are looking for bold and ambitious Project Managers to join our new and expanding team. We are working across a large, diverse city through an exciting, yet challenging time of transformation and improvement. If you are looking for your next challenge and have the passion to secure the very best opportunities for children and young people, join our compassionate and dedicated team., This is a technical project manager post that requires versatile and robust management of multiple concurrent projects across multiple workstreams. As a key member of the Strategy, Governance and Planning team, you will be leading and managing a wide range of projects across the Children and Families Directorate. You will deploy your excellent project management experience and expertise to ensure that projects have effective governance this to include, project planning, highlight reporting, appropriate use of exception reporting and change requests to make sure we deliver on our promises. You will work with a wide range of frontline managers and practitioners to help change the way we support children and families in Birmingham. You will be part of a supportive team who will deliver the full range of project management, review, and change.

You will have a relevant professional qualification and/or significant project management experience. You will have demonstrable ability to apply effective evaluation methodology to illustrate project impact, success and benefits realisation. You will be confident with the ability to lead the project space and able to adapt quickly to new demands and pressures. You will be skilled at identifying salient learning opportunities throughout the project cycle to promote continuous learning. You will have experience of working successfully with senior leaders and managers to deliver complex projects across a range of services. You will be experienced in working in a diverse team environment and the ability to multi-task and work flexibly to cover gaps where necessary, managing a number of conflicting priorities. You will have a proven track record of consistently supporting in facilitating and successfully delivering projects in collaboration with others. Putting children, young people and families across Birmingham first at all times is at the heart of everything you do, you will manage resources, operate within financial priorities to deliver value for money for the Council and our strategic partners while ensuring the best possible services and outcomes for children, young people and families. You will be an experienced, driven, creative and a passionate advocate for children and young people. You will work to instil a nurturing empathetic culture that values high-performance, and inclusivity, shaping and developing the skills of your team so that each and every person can get the most from their role, feeling encouraged to thrive., We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered. A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Do you want to make a real difference for children, young people and families in Birmingham? Do you have a passion for collaborative strength based, relationship centred decision making and service design and provision?, Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city., The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:

• A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
• An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
• A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
• A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
• A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council's role as providing strategic leadership - that's being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making. We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we'll match your commitment to us with opportunities to grow and develop your knowledge and experience as well as other rewarding career progression routes. We also offer competitive salaries and annual leave, membership of the local government pension scheme, and access to a variety of employee assistance programmes, to support the well-being of our workforce., In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.