Project Manager
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Project Manager
- Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 3rd Floor
- Salary: £37,280 - £47,181 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: One year
- Closing Date: 20/11/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 12914
- This post is not open to job share
Are you a dynamic and driven project manager ready to make a real impact in Adult Social Care? We’re looking for a talented individual to lead and deliver innovative projects that improve services, drive efficiencies, and support transformation across our finance systems and wider care services.
About the role
As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex, multi-faceted programmes that support system redesign, service remodelling, and behaviour change. You will work flexibly across teams, managing data dashboards, change initiatives, and strategic projects that contribute to the success of our integrated care system.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading projects from initiation through to delivery of benefits.
- Developing robust business cases, project plans, and risk assessments.
- Engaging stakeholders at all levels, including senior managers and elected members.
- Producing insightful reports and dashboards to support decision-making.
- Acting as a change agent to embed new ways of working and deliver measurable outcomes.
About you
You will have:
- Proven experience managing projects, ideally within Adult Social Care or the public sector.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- A collaborative, flexible, and proactive approach to delivering results.
- Confidence in using project management tools and digital technologies.
- In-depth understanding of local government and social care systems.
Our Offer
Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that’s exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:
- Regular formal and informal support
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Clear career progression pathways, to support you in progressing professionally and personally
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
- Annual leave up to 30.5 days after 5 years employment
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Agile working opportunities (please discuss at interview)
How To Apply:
Please write your application with consideration for the essential criteria on the Job Profile. This should include examples why you should be considered; the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post.
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact ASCRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk to arrange a convenient time for a call back.
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received and / or due to the needs of the service. The advert will be open for a minimum of 7 calendar days. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.