Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation

Job summary

Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation

£66,000 per annum

Bedford

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid Working

Why This Role Matters

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by driving the successful implementation of a high profile, complex project. You’ll play a key role in delivering high-priority change initiatives, supporting the integration of the Pensions Dashboards Service into MaPS business-as-usual operations. As part of the Technology and Change team, you’ll work across a broad range of business change activities—ensuring that implementation is effective, sustainable, and aligned with strategic goals. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in end-to-end implementation to shape the future of pensions access in the UK.

You’ll join a team that’s passionate, collaborative, and driven by the belief that financial confidence should be something everyone can access.

Job description

The Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation will report directly to the Senior Programme Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:

What You’ll Be Doing

• Project Management – Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies.

• Delivery – Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.

• Budget – Develop the budget and track delivery within budget.

• Resources – Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage medium sized team.

• Benefits Realisation – Deliver the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes.

• Stakeholder Management – Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.

• Risks & Issues – Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.

• Governance – Support effective governance and decision making. Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for delivery.

• Assurance – Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.

• Change Management – Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

• Guidance & Support – Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.

• Support Change Function centrally (where required) – Support the central change activities and the development new change processes

• Business Case – Support the development of Business Cases, with input from specialists as necessary.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

Essential:

• Qualified PPM Professional: Project/Programme management qualification (PRINCE2, MSP etc)
  
  • Experience of successfully managing programmes or projects or experience of having been in a work stream strand lead role within a programme or project.
  
  • Experience of working effectively with wide range of stakeholders across other government departments, directorate/business group lines.
  
  • Ability to provide direction on development to team and across project delivery profession.
  
  • Experience of securing resources and directing planning scheduling, resourcing and estimation for complex and large-scale programmes.
  
  • Experience of overseeing risk and issue management.
  
  • Experience of leading day to day management and leadership of the project and its’ team.
  
  • Ability to provide effective leadership and management controls.
  
  • Experience of monitoring longer term delivery of benefits against business case and ensuring appropriate benefits realisation strategy is in place.
  
  • Ability to understand policy and align change delivery, cascading vision and driving delivery objectives through your team.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting, as a Project Manager, the build or implementation of a B2B and/or B2C service, including activities required to prepare a service for live operation.
• Experience contributing to industry mobilisation or service readiness activity for large‑scale, multi‑party programmes.
• Experience working within or alongside complex delivery ecosystems, including suppliers, partners, regulators, or industry bodies.
• Experience supporting readiness, assurance, or transition‑to‑live activity ahead of go‑live or handover into business‑as‑usual operations.
• Experience operating in a regulated, policy‑led, or public‑facing service environment, where delivery must align with external standards or statutory expectations.
• Experience of working in, or closely with, an Arm’s Length Body or central government organisation.

Benefits

• 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension (2:1 matched contribution up to 10%)
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance
• EAP Assist & Life
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• 2 paid volunteering days
• Recognition scheme
• Retail discounts portal

Flexible Working

We believe work should fit around life. This Bedford‑based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family, and personal commitments. We come together for purposeful team collaboration to stay connected and drive great results.

Career Development
We love supporting internal growth and progression, while continuing to follow fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.

Important Information About Applying

• Please apply only via official MaPS links - we can’t accept applications via email or unauthorised sites.
• MaPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Reserve List: If you're successful at interview, we may place you on a reserve list for up to 6 months. If a similar role becomes available, you may be offered it without the need for another assessment.

If you believe your application hasn’t followed the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles, you can contact resourcing@maps.org.uk. If unresolved, you may then contact the Civil Service Commission.

Job Reference: MaPS01165

Close Date: 04/05/2026

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

We keep things simple, fair, and transparent:

Step 1: Submit Your Application

Open: 20/04/2026 , Deadline: 04/05/2026

To apply, please submit the following documents:

1. Your most up-to-date CV
2. A cover letter explaining why you are a good fit for MaPS and how you meet the essential criteria

Step 2: Telephone Interview

Between 20/04/2026 – 07/05/2026

If your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to a telephone interview with one of our recruiters. This is an opportunity to:

• Discuss your experience in more detail
• Learn more about the role and our organisation
• Ask any questions you may have

Step 3: Final Stage Interview

Hosted week commencing 18/05/2026

Successful candidates from the telephone interview will be invited to attend an in-person interview at the MaPS Office in Bedford. This stage will include:

• A series of competency-based interview questions

We follow fair, open, and merit‑based recruitment in line with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

Everything we do aligns with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

About Us

MaPS is based in bright, modern offices in Bedford, and we’re here to help people across the UK feel more confident and informed about their money.

Our values guide how we work together:

• Caring – for colleagues and the communities we support
• Connecting – building supportive, positive relationships
• Transforming – creating impact that truly matters

We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : sophie rigney
• Email : sophie.rigney@reed.com

Recruitment team

• Email : sophie.rigney@reed.com