Project Manager

About us

At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish. 

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more. 

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss. 

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth. We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand our team in the coming months. 

We’re incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank. 

About the role

As a Project Manager covering the North of England, you will be responsible for delivering habitat creation and enhancement projects safely, on-time and to budget.

This is an exciting role for a forward-thinking Project Manager where you would work closely with our ecologists, habitat delivery specialists and land managers to plan and deliver habitat creation works across your region. Project management will start with managing the programme of ecological design work through the legal process, into the live, capital works window of habitat creation and then onto the long term asset management schedule. Capital works would include creation and enhancement of a range of habitats including, woodland and scrub, species rich grassland, wetland, and associated infrastructure works.

Responsibilities

• Working alongside EB ecologists, habitat creation specialists and land managers as part of ‘project teams’ with responsibility for the delivery of our habitat bank network.  You will take a lead in organising and chairing meetings, creating and managing the project risk register, creating and managing the programme using information supplied by the designer (ecologist), habitat creation specialist, environment consents manager and contractors.
• Safe Delivery of the Projects, managing compliance and promoting a positive safety culture into all activities undertaken on the project.
• Taking specifications from ecologist and habitat creation specialists and lead on the procurement and awarding of works to suitably vetted contractors and suppliers and managing the timely payment of these contractors.
• Managing the budget for the habitat bank site and reporting forecast against spend.
• Reviewing and reporting against contractors and delivery partners KPIs.
• Managing the programme to ensure they are completed to the highest quality, to an agreed timescale, taking account of seasonal constraints, and within budget.
• Managing the change control process on the project.
• Managing the assurance schedule on the project.
• Maintaining high quality relationships and communicating effectively with project team members.
• Providing progress updates and key reporting on the project and keeping relevant project systems updated.
• Organising and chairing lessons learned sessions and collate outputs and disseminate.

EDI & Belonging

At the heart of Environment Bank are the people, who make it all possible. We employ individuals, who share the same passion to live our Environment Bank mission and values.

At Environment Bank we believe that fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us more innovative, dynamic, and competitive. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone is valued and respected, free from discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status.

Requirements

Essential:

• APM accredited or equivalent.
• Educated to a degree level in a relevant subject. Or equivalent work experience.
• Proven ability to lead and drive a multi-disciplinary project team, ensuring delivery of all contractual outputs to cost and to plan.
• Management of Project Control function covering Planning, Estimating, Financial Control and commercial management disciplines.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – ability to deliver key messages efficiently and effectively, tailoring the approach to the audience as appropriate, in order to promote action.
• Project Management skills – strong understanding of the hard and soft aspects of programme management. Competent in time management and possess high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to build consensus.
• Experience of delivering projects with consent/permit restrictions and/or seasonal constraints.
• Experience of risk management.
• Full UK clean driving license and willingness to travel for regional site visits and events.

Desirable:

• Exposure to habitat creation/restoration and the delivery of nature recovery projects, of which some time should have been in a project role.
• A Health and Safety qualification e.g. NEBOSH/IOSH.

Benefits

As an organisation, we believe that work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced, so we’re creating a space where our team can thrive, both personally and professionally – providing flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and more.  

We offer... 

• 🎁 Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary 
  💸 Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary 
• 🏖️ 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day 
  ➕ Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation
• 🏡 Remote and hybrid flexible working options 
  💼 Regional and departmental team co-working days 
• 🌞 Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year 
  🎗️ Team fundraising and charity events 
  🎓 Ongoing career development with training and mentoring 
• 🩺 Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs 
  ‍🧠 Employee assistance mental wellbeing support 
  ❤️‍🩹️ Enhanced sickness pay allowance