Project Manager – Charities & Impact

Permanent, Full time: 35 hours per week

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel

About the role

The Project Manager (PM) will lead the delivery of high-priority charitable projects, both existing and new, working closely with teams across the charity. You will oversee end-to-end project implementation, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s project and bid lifecycle. This role is key to delivering initiatives effectively and on time, with measurable impact for beneficiaries, partners, and the wider sector. The PM will guide cross-functional teams through change, ensuring projects are embedded into business-as-usual operations to deliver long-term community benefits.

The PM will work with colleagues to shape and deliver projects that support workforce development, address skills gaps, and improve access to training and employment. The role will focus on co-creating projects that drive change, inform research and policy, and generate meaningful outcomes for individuals and communities within the engineering and manufacturing sectors.

What you’ll be doing

• Support early project design and lifecycle into BAU, ensuring operational readiness with teams and partners.
• Critically assess project progress and implement actions to realign plans if needed.
• Define and monitor project benefits and impact measures from the start through to delivery.
• Create and share clear change narratives to keep stakeholders and beneficiaries engaged.
• Produce timely project documentation showing deliverables and progress against plans.
• Mentor project and charity teams, promoting problem-solving and sharing best practices.
• Work with finance to ensure accurate, timely reporting on project financials.
• Identify and baseline charitable impacts, delivering through to benefits realisation.
• Scope, plan, resource, and deliver projects in line with objectives and business needs.
• Ensure all projects have a robust business case signed off through the PMO framework.
• Manage project risks and changes, ensuring impacts are fully assessed and reported.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships to maximise charitable impact and support change.

What we’re looking for

• A strong understanding of the engineering and manufacturing sector, alongside a solid grasp of the UK skills and educational landscape.
• The ability to organise own workload, meet deadlines and take the initiative whilst working as part of a strong team, balancing digital and non-digital needs.
• Strong people management capabilities that inspire, manage performance, and develop team members, as well as workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience of leading complex projects, preferably within a regulated organisation.

Other skills which would be desirable however not needed to apply for the role

• Experience of project planning and delivery within regulated organisation such as an Awarding Organisation or Further Education/College.

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive place to work for all our colleagues and we want everyone to feel valued and that they can be themselves at work.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you, please let us know if you are shortlisted for interview so we can discuss this with you.

We welcome discussions regarding reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home-based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries
• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).
• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.
• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year
• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year
• Life assurance of 2x your salary
• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.
• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.
• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support
• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app
• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes
• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave
• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;
• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;
• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group's specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net-zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.