Job Description
Project Manager
Key information
Closing date: 10am, Friday 31 October 2025
Salary: £32,000 per year pro rata (0.7 FTE) / £22,400 per year
Hours: Part-time, 24.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term contract to end of March 2027
Location: Based in South East Wales as a home working role
Interviews: Online, Monday 10 November 2025
Our client empowers people with the skills they need to succeed in life. Our client's innovative project uses workshops, resources, and interactive activities to engage communities in exploring culture and shared history.
What you'll be doing
Our client's ambitious project explores ways for diverse communities to find personal and local connections across South East Wales, with a focus on understanding how this heritage can inform and shape the vision for the future.
You will be responsible for the strategic management and delivery of the project, including budget, reporting and partnership agreements, as well as ensuring the project supports and is aligned to our client's national strategies, networks, and initiatives for local areas work. You will also line manage a Project Officer.
You will work from home but will also need to travel regularly to support events and local partnerships.
What our client is looking for
You will need to be an excellent project manager with a good understanding of Welsh history and communities across South East Wales. You will also need experience of managing budgets, reporting to funders and working with multiple stakeholders across a wide geographical area.
Due to the nature of the role, you will need a driving licence/access to your own vehicle to support project delivery across these areas. Experience of working with heritage organisations, education or library settings or local authorities in Wales would be an advantage, as would the ability to communicate in Welsh.
Why our client's work is so vital
Reading and writing changes everything.
They give you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. They're the key to knowledge, confidence, and inspiration. They're better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read, or opportunities to write, it's harder to get where you want to go.
Our client helps people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words - reading, writing, speaking, and listening. From first words, through school days, to training, jobs and beyond.
- They work collaboratively in local communities, focusing their work in areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
- They support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
- They campaign to make reading and writing a priority for politicians and decision-makers.
- They support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders' institutions to build their skills.
What our client offers you
Our client's team is passionate about their mission, and have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. They offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to their success, whoever you are.
As well as a competitive salary, they offer benefits, including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, an employee assistance programme, and other health and wellbeing benefits.
Application details
Our client's people are their most important asset, and they value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). They particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which they work. They would like to increase the representation of these groups among their staff, as they know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for their work.
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Please also complete our client's online equal opportunities monitoring form when you submit your application.
Unfortunately, our client is unable to respond individually to applications, so if you have not heard from them by the advertised interview date, this means they have not been able to shortlist your application this time.
Please note, our client do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.
