Project Manager - Permanent

Ready to turn strategy into action? We're looking for a driven Project Manager to lead transformational projects across CITB, taking ownership of planning, budgets, risks, stakeholder engagement and delivery to ensure lasting business benefits and successful outcomes.

Hours of Work: Full-time (35 hours per week)

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 4 days per month in the office

Contract: Permanent

Grade: SC4

Target Salary: £53,303 per annum + £6,799 car allowance

Location: Peterborough

Provisional Interview Dates: w/c 30th November 2026 - 2 Stage Interview Process

About the Role

The Project Manager leads the successful delivery of low to moderately complex projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope and budget, and aligned to organisational priorities.

The postholder applies project delivery standards in line with the Government Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF) and CITBs Project Design & Delivery Framework, while fostering high-performing teams and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

• The Project Manager is responsible for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closure of projects within scope, time, and budget. Using APM and CITB frameworks, the role ensures project deliverables align with organisational objectives and stakeholder expectations while adhering to governance standards.
• The role involves working with both internal and external stakeholders, as required, to ensure projects are delivered to agreed cost, scope, and timescales, realising their agreed benefits.

Reporting to the Project SRO on a day to day basis, this role works closely with the change managers and programme and project support staff.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Project Delivery, Performance and Controls

• Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints. Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team.
• Day-to-day management and leadership of the project and the project team.
• Build Project Plan and apply appropriate project controls aligned to CITBs Project Design & Delivery Framework.
• Track and report delivery against milestones.

1. Business Case, Budget & Benefits Realisation

• Coordinate the development of the business case.
• Track delivery within budget.
• Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
• Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case.

1. Resources

• Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project. May work independently or with a small team.

1. Stakeholder Management

• Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships

1. Risks and Issues

• Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate

1. Governance and Assurance

• Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
• Support or set appropriate project assurance.

1. Change Management

• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders

1. Guidance and Support

• Seek appropriate support, guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.

  People Leadership/Team Leadership

  Direct reports

• The Project Manager will lead a small team or work independently; they may supervise Project Coordinators or Business Analysts depending on project scale and structure.
• Contribute to developing the team to reach and contribute to their full delivery potential, ensuring team members take ownership and responsibility for their own work
• Develop and ensure a team culture that motivates and inspires excellent collective and individual performance, embraces change and that delivers continuous improvement; initiate and lead change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to CITB staff involved in project delivery.

• Support capability development across the PPCM function and contribute to a community of practice initiatives.

  Indirect reports

• Provide coaching and mentoring to CITB staff involved in project delivery.
• Support capability development across the PPCM function and contribute to a community of practice initiatives.

Key Contacts and Relationships

Internal:

SRO, Change Managers, Service Owners, Business Leads, PMO Support Staff, Data & Information Manager, Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT), Finance, HR

External:

Enabling Partner(s), third-party suppliers, project delivery peers from external organisations

• Work closely with Suppliers to manage activities.
• Engage with other project managers from CITB and other organisations to find beat practise opportunities to continually improve processes.

What we’re looking for:

Essential

• Proven ability to lead end-to-end delivery of projects, translating strategic objectives into delivery plans, managing multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring delivery within agreed time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Experienced in developing detailed project plans and applying appropriate project controls aligned to recognised methodologies including milestone tracking and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating the development of robust business cases and managing project budgets, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and tracking spend against plan.
• Skilled in benefits management: identifying, tracking, and reporting on benefits realisation, including development and application of benefits realisation strategies throughout and beyond the project lifecycle.
• Strong background in resource planning and allocation, including managing internal and external teams or working independently to deliver project outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in stakeholder identification and engagement, developing and maintaining effective relationships across all levels of the organisation to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Experienced in proactively identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and issues, developing mitigation plans and escalating appropriately to maintain project momentum.
• Knowledge of governance and assurance processes, with the ability to prepare and present key reports to governance boards and ensure project compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Applied experience in change control and management, ensuring agreed deliverables are maintained through structured processes with appropriate stakeholder input and approval.
• Committed to personal development and continuous improvement, with experience in seeking guidance and coaching, promoting team learning, and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Relevant professional qualification, such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile Project Management Practitioner, APM Project Management Qualification, PMI Project Management Professional, Leading and Managing Project Workstreams

Desirable

• Working towards relevant professional qualification, such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile Project Management Practitioner, APM Project Management Qualification, PMI Project Management Professional, Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
• Level 5 coaching & mentoring.
• Experience in contributing towards programme planning and budgeting.
• Experience working with or in public sector / UK Government delivery environment.

Behavioural Competencies

• Works collaboratively – Level 3
• Drives for results – Level 3
• Communicating with impact – Level 3
• Effective decision making – Level 3
• Leading by Example – Level 3
• Working with Ambiguity – Level 3
• Additional: Working with Ambiguity, Influencing

Why join CITB?

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 3 additional days Christmas shutdown
• Generous pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Professional development & funded training qualifications
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Be part of a respected organisation shaping the future of UK construction

Closing Date

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the stated closing date. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis; therefore early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

We are committed to equal opportunities and recruit based on merit, skills and experience.