Habitat Delivery Project Manager

Summary

Join Environment Bank, a market-leading organization in habitat restoration, as a Project Manager. You will deliver habitat creation and enhancement projects safely, on time, and within budget, collaborating with ecologists, specialists, and land managers. Responsibilities include managing project risks, budgets, and contractor procurement, ensuring compliance and a positive safety culture. The role requires APM accreditation or equivalent, a relevant degree or equivalent experience, and proven project leadership skills. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent communication, strong project management expertise, and experience with projects involving consent restrictions and seasonal constraints. Environment Bank offers a fulfilling work environment with flexible working arrangements, wellbeing support, and various benefits.

Requirements

• APM accredited or equivalent
• Educated to a degree level in a relevant subject. Or equivalent work experience
• Proven ability to lead and drive a multi-disciplinary project team, ensuring delivery of all contractual outputs to cost and to plan
• Management of Project Control function covering Planning, Estimating, Financial Control and commercial management disciplines
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – ability to deliver key messages efficiently and effectively, tailoring the approach to the audience as appropriate, in order to promote action
• Project Management skills – strong understanding of the hard and soft aspects of programme management. Competent in time management and possess high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to build consensus
• Experience of delivering projects with consent/permit restrictions and/or seasonal constraints
• Experience of risk management
• Full UK clean driving license and willingness to travel for regional site visits and events

Responsibilities

• Working alongside EB ecologists, habitat creation specialists and land managers as part of ‘project teams’ with responsibility for the delivery of our habitat bank network
• You will take a lead in organising and chairing meetings, creating and managing the project risk register, creating and managing the programme using information supplied by the designer (ecologist), habitat creation specialist, environment consents manager and contractors
• Safe Delivery of the Projects, managing compliance and promoting a positive safety culture into all activities undertaken on the project
• Taking specifications from ecologist and habitat creation specialists and lead on the procurement and awarding of works to suitably vetted contractors and suppliers and managing the timely payment of these contractors
• Managing the budget for the habitat bank site and reporting forecast against spend
• Reviewing and reporting against contractors and delivery partners KPIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to habitat creation/restoration and the delivery of nature recovery projects, of which some time should have been in a project role
• A Health and Safety qualification e.g. NEBOSH/IOSH

Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary
• Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary
• 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation
• Remote and hybrid flexible working options
• Regional and departmental team co-working days
• Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year
• Team fundraising and charity events
• Ongoing career development with training and mentoring
• Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs
• Employee assistance mental wellbeing support
• Enhanced sickness pay allowance