Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with extensive buildings experience, to support the Diocese of Liverpool and its parishes in implementing the Right Buildings plan in each deanery, ensuring that buildings are fit for purpose and create opportunities for mission and outreach.
This role is about more than bricks and mortar—it’s about enabling mission and ministry in grassroots communities. This will involve the full project management lifecycle from planning to delivery and handover of projects. Working in collaboration with the parishes to implement schemes that maximise the mission and ministry use of buildings and the shared use / repurposing of others.
The main focus will be on managing refurbishment projects ranging from kitchen replacements to larger scale extensions £100k-£1m. The successful candidate will also provide project management support/oversight to the wider team progressing disposals and other workstreams.
In order to deliver successfully, you will apply proven project management principles to ensure clear planning, effective execution and rigorous monitoring of outcomes. You will listen carefully to local voices, integrating feedback into practical solutions aligned to agreed objectives. You will build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders, partners and suppliers, which will be critical to enabling timely, efficient and value-for-money solutions.
This is a demanding role, requiring a balance of interpersonal skill and technical expertise, but for the right person it offers the opportunity to apply best-practice project management to help transform our buildings into sustainable assets, to support mission and ministry, making our buildings fit for purpose for the future.
If you want to use your professional skills to make a real difference in the life of the Church, this is your opportunity to help create spaces where communities are served, lives are changed, and God’s love is shared.
Key Responsibilities And Tasks Include
* Develop clear project plans, defining scope, objectives, milestones and success measures
* Delivery oversight of practical and timely solutions that meet local needs and priorities
* Manage risks and progress issues proactively to ensure controlled delivery within agreed timescales
* Stakeholder Management & Engagement - Engage with local teams to listen to and capture ideas for each building that requires refurbishment work. Working with parish leadership teams to shape and agree projects
* Build and nurture relationship with key stakeholders and suppliers
* Enable open and transparent communication, managing expectations and securing commitment to outcomes
* Negotiation with and management of supplier contracts to deliver value for money
* Gain all necessary approvals
* Track delivery against agreed plans, providing accurate progress updates internally and to key stakeholders
* Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied across future project.
Please find recruitment pack attached for further information and person specification.