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At The National Lottery Community Fund, we are driven by our strategy, ‘It starts with community’ and its four community-led missions, as well as our equity-based approach to tackling poverty, discrimination and disadvantage.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK Portfolio at an ambitious moment of shaping the next phase of our delivery. We are looking for one person to join the UK Portfolio Team as Project Manager for 12 months.

Job description

The UK Portfolio supports the ambitions and potential of communities across the UK. We focus on scaling projects with a UK-wide benefit, through significant investments, which enable systems-level change for communities. Our funding is intended to complement the work of other country portfolios: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales .

We are seeking an organised and proactive Project Manager to support the delivery of a complex programme of work over the next 12 months. The successful candidate will be highly proficient in Microsoft Office tools and skilled at building and maintaining project plans, governance processes, and documentation, including risk, issue, and decision logs.

You will lead agile approaches to project oversight, coordinating activity across teams, functions, and seniority levels to ensure progress is effectively tracked and barriers are addressed. You will identify emerging risks, opportunities, and dependencies, escalating issues appropriately and facilitating timely decision-making. Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide high-quality reporting, insights, and project management support to drive successful delivery of programme objectives.

This role requires excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills, alongside the ability to balance attention to detail with a focus on outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

Develop, maintain and monitor project plans, milestones and dependencies to support successful delivery.
Establish and maintain effective project governance, including risk, issue, action and decision logs.
Lead agile approaches to project oversight, ensuring delivery remains focused on priorities and outcomes.
Coordinate activity across teams, functions and organisational levels, ensuring alignment and timely progress.
Identify emerging risks, barriers, dependencies and opportunities, escalating and addressing them appropriately.
Facilitate project meetings documenting actions and following through on delivery.
Track progress against agreed objectives, highlighting variances and recommending corrective action where required.
Promote effective project management disciplines, tools and ways of working across the programme.
Build positive working relationships with stakeholders and support collaboration across teams.

You will be an experienced project manager, adept at both building and maintaining the required relationships to successfully deliver complex projects and the enabling processes and tools.

You will be comfortable setting up new process and using agile techniques to bring teams together, track progress, flag emerging issues and seek resolutions.

You will be experienced in supporting senior leaders to produce regular reporting.

You’ll be joining a dynamic and welcoming geographically dispersed team, working with hugely important and fascinating projects that are responding to and addressing a wide range of topics across the Fund’s four community-led missions.

Due to our dispersed nature as a team, it is expected that there will be occasional travel in order to connect with colleagues, stakeholders and projects. This is likely to be one to two occasions per month.

Interview details:

Date: 13 August 2026
Format: Online
Location:UK Wide

We have a hybrid approach to working. Work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and Newtown.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Susie.Farren@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.

Please email: recruitment@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for any recruitment process questions.

Person specification

How to apply:Upload your CV in word format and write a supporting statement (1000 words) with the following criteria, we will use this to score your application.Essential criteria

Proven experience managing and coordinating complex projects or programmes, delivering outcomes to agreed timescales and priorities.
Strong project planning and governance skills, including maintaining project plans, risk, issue, action and decision logs.
Experience using agile delivery approaches and adapting project management methods to suit different types of work.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate activity across teams, functions and organisational levels.
Strong analytical and communication skills, including identifying and escalating emerging risks, barriers and opportunities, and producing clear reporting for senior leaders.
Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools, particularly Excel, Teams and collaborative project management tools.

Desirable criteria

Project management qualification or certification (e.g. PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum or equivalent).
Knowledge of the charitable, funding or grant-making sector, and/or an understanding of the context in which The National Lottery Community Fund operates.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,382, The National Lottery Community Fund contributes £10,250 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).

A full list of our benefits can be found on our website using the link:

Generous Civil Service Pension scheme
Flexible working
Enhanced paid maternity/paternity leave
Paid volunteering leave
Season ticket loan’

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

Upload your CV in word format and write a supporting statement (1000 words), aligning your statement to the Essential and Desirable criteria. We will use this to score your application. Please apply via our website: https://jobs.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/vacancies/432/project-manager-rheo…

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

Security

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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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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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