Migrant Help have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Project Manager to join our team!
Location: Homebased
Contract: Permanent
?Salary: £38.548
About us:
Migrant Help is a leading charity that has been established for over 60 years and delivers a range of support and advice services to migrants across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable migrants, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.
The Project Manager role:
Part of the Project Management Office (PMO), the Project Manager is a key and exciting role at Migrant Help. You 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.
If you have demonstrable experience successfully managing projects with the ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, and are looking for an exciting role that makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
Key responsibilities of our Project Manager:
Project Planning: Develop comprehensive and realistic project plans that integrate requirements identified by the Business Analyst with existing organisational and team priorities.
Project Leadership: Lead and influence project teams through project phases throughout the project lifecycle by using clear communication of project objectives, balancing stakeholder priorities and a consistent approach adhering to the PMO project management methodology.
Project Documentation: Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and post-project evaluations. Work with the Head of PMO to continuously improve the PMO’s documentation approach to deliver accountability and iterative improvement.
Project Resource Management: Manage project resources, including team members, external suppliers and budget tracking, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and effectively.
Risk Management: Identify and document project risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies.
Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC): Deliver QA and QC with a view to delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget. Provide QC of project products and maintain and refine QA processes within the PMO to deliver consistent project management standards.
Strategy: Contribute analysis of Migrant Help and PMO needs and objectives to support the work of the Business Analyst and Head of PMO to refine projects and develop the PMO to achieve its strategic goals. Identify gaps in PMO tools and processes and build and improve them where requested.
PMO Resource Management: Advise the Head of PMO on appropriate resourcing decisions for PMO projects on the basis of the existing pipeline
The experience and skills you need to become our Project Manager:
Understanding of project governance structures and ways of working including QC and QA, risk management, project performance, documentation and resource management
Proven experience in planning and managing complicated projects, preferably in a medium to large sized organisation, working across multiple teams
Knowledge and expertise in working with or managing technology solutions within medium to large organisations
Natural and developed collaboration and leadership skills, to influence and lead project teams and diverse stakeholders to achieve mutual objectives
Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of using initiative to unlock blockages and achieve progress
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
This post is subject to a Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) therefore applicants must:
Be able to provide a valid passport eg. 10 year full British passport, EU or non-EU Passport with indefinite leave to remain
Be able to provide continuous UK address history for the previous 5 years
Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment
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: 2 November 2025
If you are interested in becoming our new Project Manager, please click 'APPLY' today. We look forward to hearing from you!
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