Senior Delivery

2 months ago

York, United Kingdom Joseph Rowntree Foundation Full time

About the role

Our highest impact projects rely on experts from specialists from a range of disciplines both inside and outside of JRF working together effectively.

In this role, you will lead on creating environments that enables multidisciplinary project teams to succeed in their goals.

You will apply the most relevant delivery and project management tools and techniques to the work of project teams to deliver strategic projects that are a high priority to the organisation’s mission and lead on sharing this learning within the Core Team and wider.

As a member of our internal resources team, you will provide critical administrative and logistical support to the projects in their portfolio (including proposing ways of working, tools and techniques of delivery management that work best for the project team), such as the organisation and delivery of roundtables and internal workshops, scheduling and taking notes at project meetings, co-ordination of open tender processes or other initiatives crucial to moving a project forward.

You will also line-manage two Delivery & Partnership Leads, maintaining an overview of workloads to inform the Head of Core Team on resource planning and management.

About you

The role is ideal for someone with strong project and/or delivery management skills who is passionate about JRF’s mission and committed to contributing to social change.

You must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and be a team player who can build strong and effective personal relationships across JRF as well as externally.

We’re looking for someone with:

  • Demonstrable working knowledge of various delivery and project management tools and techniques.
  • Good understanding of poverty-related issues and JRF’s strategy
  • Extensive experience of delivering complex projects simultaneously including clear understanding of financial processes and budget tracking.
  • Demonstrable experience of leading on managing relationships and negotiations about resource allocation including excellent influencing and persuasive and diplomacy skills.
  • Experience of proactively spotting emerging issues and working autonomously to manage them effectively with the ability to problem-solve
  • Track record of being an excellent team player and actively leading and contributing to team objectives.
  • Experience of building and managing ad hoc project teams to work effectively.
  • Oversight of multiple workstreams for teams across the organisation and leading on ways of working across these.
  • Significant experience in managing multiple stakeholders ensuring appropriate communication and engagement.

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