Location: Homebased
Contract: Permanent
?Salary: £43,138
About us:
Migrant Help is a leading charity that was established in 1963 and delivers a range of support and advice services to people affected by displacement and exploitation across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable people, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.
We foster a culture in which equality, diversity and inclusion are recognised, valued and encouraged. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, we match your skills with the needs of our organisation, as long as you share our values, vision and goals. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of their age, religion or belief, race, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
The Project Manager role:
Part of the Project Management Office (PMO), the Project Manager is a key and exciting role at Migrant Help. It will play a central role in delivering PMO projects that are complex, cross-functional, and strategically significant. Project Managers lead project teams through the full lifecycle, ensuring alignment with PMO methodologies, organisational priorities, and stakeholder expectations. The role is responsible for planning, execution, governance, and continuous improvement, and contributes to the development of PMO tools, processes, and resource strategies. As a management delivery role, the Project Manager also supports the development of junior PMO staff and acts as a key interface between the PMO, its customers and its suppliers.
If you have demonstrable experience successfully managing projects, skills in leadership, collaboration and innovation, and are looking for an exciting role that makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
Key responsibilities of our Project Manager:
Planning: Build project schedules integrating customer requirements with existing organisational and team priorities
Leadership: Lead approved change initiatives and projects, using PMO standardised tools (RAID logs, project schedules, risk registers, status reporting)
Resource management: Manage project resources efficiently and effectively, including team members, external suppliers and budget tracking
Risk management: Proactively identify, document and mitigate project risks and issues using structured methods and tools
Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC): Deliver QA and QC so projects deliver expected quality on time, within scope, and within budget
Strategy delivery: Contribute analysis PMO tools and processes to develop the PMO to achieve its strategic goals. Identify gaps and support improvements
Relationship management: Maintain positive working relationships with business stakeholders
Advocacy and communication: Improve organisational understanding of structured project management techniques and the PMO as a function
The experience you need to become our Project Manager:
Proven experience in planning and managing complicated projects, preferably in a medium to large sized organisation, working across multiple teams
Understanding of project governance structures and ways of working including QC and QA, risk management, project performance, documentation and resource management
Knowledge and expertise in working with or managing technology solutions within medium to large organisations
The skills you need to become our Project Manager:
Communication skills
Problem solving
Critical thinking
Productivity and planning
Stakeholder management
Governance and resource management
Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide a service to, applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process therefore:
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
These are some of the benefits we offer:
Our working week is 35 hours per week offering flexibility and work life balance
Employees will gain an extra day annual leave per year to a maximum of 39 days, including bank holidays (pro-rata).
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
Access to Perkbox, an employee rewards and benefits platform with over 9,000 deals and discounts, a range of free perks, employee wellbeing support and other additional employee benefits and recognitions.
Wellbeing support.
Migrant Help offers employees a non-contributory pension scheme Migrant Help pays 8% worth of employee salary into the pension scheme.
Closing Date: 31 May 2026
If you are interested in becoming our new Project Manager, please click 'APPLY' today. We look forward to hearing from you!
We will sift candidates at application stage and invite those who appear a strong fit for the role to submit a two minute video. We will share the topic with those contacted. We will use this to build a shortlist of candidates who will be invited for a first, 60 minute competency based interview stage. Those successful passing this stage will be invited to a final, 45 minute interview, which will contain a presentational component, requiring preparation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a valuable tool during the application process, for example to help structure your sentences and identify your transferable skills. However, please ensure you don’t rely on it entirely. As your application will be reviewed by people, not systems, it is often easy to recognise when AI has been heavily used. We want to hear your unique voice and understand your experience.
??Selection Criteria
Your application will be assessed against the job description and person specification, which can be found via the above link, we therefore recommend you review both before you apply.
We encourage applications from disabled people by offering them an interview if they meet the minimum criteria for the job
Please note this vacancy may close early depending on applications received
As part of your role, it is important you operate within Migrant Help’s values: Protection, Diversity, Equality, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence.
Migrant Help is proud to be an equal opportunities employer
Salary description
£43138.00 - £43138.00 per year