Project Manager

Job summary

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is delivering an ambitious transformation portfolio to support its strategic priorities. As a Project Manager working in the Transformation Delivery Team, within the Transformation & Technology Directorate, you will help deliver complex, high-profile projects with organisation-wide impact.

Working collaboratively across HMLR, you will manage the delivery of complex projects by agreeing requirements, planning the end-to-end project lifecycle, and ensuring outcomes are achieved on time, within budget and to the required quality. You will also support benefit realisation and provide effective financial management.

Applying government project delivery standards and best practice, you will contribute to continuous improvement in a supportive, inclusive environment where everyone’s contributions are valued.

Job description

As a Project Manager, you will lead the initiation and delivery of complex projects, ensuring clear governance and successful outcomes within agreed timescales, budgets and benefits. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to build support and ensure alignment with organisational priorities.

You will be accountable for project planning, risks, issues, dependencies, resources and financial management, including developing business cases and overseeing delivery partners. You will also lead stakeholder engagement and communications to ensure clear and consistent messaging.

Working collaboratively, you will support benefits realisation, business change, and continuous improvement, contributing to a strong, inclusive Project Delivery profession across HM Land Registry.

Please note this role requires a minimum of 30 hours per week. Travel and overnight stays will be required from time to time.

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.

Please see attached job description.

Person specification

The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience of planning and coordinating complex work, delivering at pace in a project or similar environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus at all levels, including senior leaders
• Confident communicator who can explain complex information clearly and support effective problem solving
• Collaborative and adaptable, able to manage competing priorities, respond positively to change and work with others to deliver successful outcomes

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Organisational, planning and coordination skills supported by appropriate technical tools and applied in a project or similar environment

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,514, HM Land Registry contributes £13,185 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

The HMLR Way – Our Shared Commitment

What you can expect from HMLR:

• Inclusive & Empowering: A positive, healthy environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute
• High Performance: Access to tools, resources, and development opportunities within a supportive culture
• Value & Recognition: We value team and individual improvement, learning from setbacks as much as celebrating success
• Clarity & Transparency: Clear communication of our vision and priorities, so our direction and decisions are evident

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Application

To apply for this role, please attach an anonymised CV when prompted. Your CV should include how you demonstrate the following Essential Experience:

• Experience of working with suppliers and external delivery partners
• Experience of leading workshops to facilitate requirements definition and solution proposal development

You will be asked to provide a personal statement. In no more than 750 words, please demonstrate how you meet the following Essential Experience:

• Provide three examples of a project or similar complex piece of work you have planned and coordinated including details on the size and scope of this work, as well as the benefits and impacts it had on a team or organisation. Explain the role you played and highlight any challenges you overcame to ensure timely delivery of the agreed outcomes. (Please also reference the company you worked for whilst delivering these projects or pieces of work).

In the event of a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to assess against the following Essential Experience:

• Experience of successfully planning and coordinating the delivery of complex work

In the event of receiving a high volume of applications, we may conduct a pre-sift before the main sift stage. Candidates who are unsuccessful at the pre-sift stage will not receive a score.

Candidate Engagement Sessions

We are running three engagement sessions. Click below to join and learn more about these roles and meet the team:

• 14 July, 12pm - 1pm

Meeting ID:392 123 704 907 835 Passcode:B9WU7PW7

• 16 July 12pm - 1pm

Meeting ID:332 181 035 727 447 Passcode:wx3Uc9Hp

• 21 July 12pm - 1pm

Meeting ID: 391 267 739 597 28 Passcode: KU6qs3Lz

Interviews and pre-prepared presentation

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended video interview and deliver a pre-prepared presentation. The interviews will start week commencing 24 August 2026.

The blended interview will assess the Essential Technical, Essential Experience, Behaviours and the Strengths associated with this role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

* Please note that we are not testing ANY Desirable criteria: Technical or Experience throughout this process *

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note, we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and therefore we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa. You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

Disability Confident Scheme

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview. If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

If you would like further information about the use of your personal data, please click on the link below:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-land-registry-job-applicant-personal-information

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Matthew Livings
• Email : Matthew.Livings@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Attachments

Transformation & Technology Candidate Pack 2026 Opens in new window (pdf, 2033kB)Project Manager JD Opens in new window (pdf, 197kB)