Project Manager

Are you looking for a role where you can help shape something new, make a visible difference and work alongside people who care deeply about their place? We are building a new Combined County Authority for Hampshire and the Solent, bringing together partners across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton to bring investment to the region and to create opportunities for our people, places, communities and businesses.

The Role

As a Project Manager, you will play a key role in translating strategic objectives into practical, deliverable change across programmes, projects, and organisational initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders, you will analyse business needs, define requirements, map current and future processes, and support informed decision-making around services, systems, operating models, and ways of working.

What you'll be doing?

In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring our teams have the tools, knowledge, and processes they need to deliver a high-quality service. You will:

Lead defined projects, work packages or implementation activities from mobilisation to closure, establishing clear scope, outputs, outcomes, plans, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, decisions, handover requirements and evidence of delivery impact. Maintain strong project control and delivery confidence, actively managing plans, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes, reporting requirements and escalation routes so that projects remain coherent, affordable, paced and aligned to intended outcomes. Support effective governance, assurance and decision-making, preparing clear progress updates, highlight reports, RAID information, options and recommendations so Programme Managers and governance forums can understand delivery confidence, risks, choices and next steps. Support implementation, readiness and transition into business as usual, ensuring operational impacts, adoption needs, handover arrangements, evidence requirements, lessons learned and closure activity are planned and followed through.

What you’ll bring?

We’re looking for someone with:

Strong experience managing projects, work packages or implementation activity in complex multi-stakeholder environments, including projects that are significant in size, complexity, profile or organisational impact. Strong project delivery capability, including mobilisation, planning, scheduling, RAID management, dependency tracking, reporting, governance coordination, implementation and controlled closure. Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills. Ability to prepare clear, accurate and decision-ready reports, briefings, plans, RAID information, options and recommendations for programme governance and project decision-making. Ability to work effectively in a politically sensitive, ambiguous and fast-moving public service environment, using sound judgement, resilience, professional credibility and proportionate project discipline. Experience working in local government, combined authorities, central government, public bodies, regulated sectors or partnership environments subject to formal governance, assurance and public accountability.