Junior Project Manager (48895)

• Ensures the right resources, skills, and capabilities are in place, working across teams and partners to adjust capacity as needed.

• Defines clear success measures, benefits, and performance indicators, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations and organisational strategy and priorities.

• Leads reviews, washups and retrospectives, embedding continuous improvement into delivery and sharing insights to build organisational capability.

• Supports management of senior relationships across the British Council, as well as with external agencies, partners and individuals, as required, to support the strategic vision and value realisation.

• Builds and maintain effective relationships with internal partners and stakeholders, to ensure the effective, delivery of project goals and outcomes.

• Communicates with transparency, clarity and confidence, ensuring stakeholders understand progress, risks, options, and outcomes.

• Applies governance and compliance requirements in a pragmatic way that enables delivery rather than slows it down

• Ensures the British Council meets all relevant internal and external compliance and client requirements (financial, HR, quality management, regulatory, etc.) across the project, to ensure the organisation and all its sub-contractors operate legally, with integrity, and in a way that manages risk effectively.

• Manages budgets and commercial performance to ensure delivery achieves strong value for money and expected returns.

• Makes informed trade-offs between scope, cost, and timelines to maximise impact and value.

• Negotiate and procure agreements with partners/sub-contractors/stakeholders and signoff contracts relating to delivery of the product or service, to meet optimal cost efficiency measures.

• Consistently creates an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of own biases and taking action to mitigate against these.

• Ensures people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people’s wellbeing and mental health particularly through periods of significant change.

• Has a deep understanding of and takes accountability for putting the British Council’s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and anti-racism into practice.

• Makes time for and visibly engages with learning and development related to EDI and anti-racism.

First degree or equivalent qualification/experience

• Demonstrable experience in managing projects for a multi-national organization, including support procurement and third party supplier and partner arrangements.

• Experience of using formal planning tools to create project plans where appropriate (I,e. Miro, Jira, Confluence, Planner, Microsoft Project, etc.)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills using various tools including Outlook, Word, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Fluency in English.

• Current residency either in the UK or Poland with unlimited right to work.

• Experience of leading on digital/online/technology projects on a global scale.

• Experience of supporting the negotiation of legal contracts with external partners.

• Experience of delivering learning and / or assessment programmes and projects.

British council values and behaviours are applicable across our organisation, in all roles and at all levels. They are important because they say what we stand for at the British Council and help us to deliver our strategy. We use them to guide our decision making, as well as guiding how we treat one another and the people we work with. These will be assessed in the selection process. Our values are: Open and Committed; Expert and Inclusive; Optimistic and Bold.

Unit: English & Exams / Product / Delivery and Governance

Work style: hybrid

Pay band: 7

UK annual salary:

£31,000 - £34,000

Poland monthly salary (PLN)

11,230 - 14,040