Manager - Project Manager

Description

The Project Manager will support the mobilisation and delivery of complex consulting programmes across ICF’s UK & India Consulting Division. The role will provide flexible project management capacity across a diverse portfolio of work, including education, skills and sport, environment and climate, health, energy and wider public policy programmes.

The postholder will work with programme directors, technical leads, commercial colleagues and delivery partners to establish effective governance and controls, coordinate multidisciplinary delivery, and keep programmes on track. This is a hands-on delivery role requiring strong organisation, sound judgement, commercial awareness and confidence working in a fast-paced consulting environment. For larger programmes, the role may take ownership of a defined workstream, project-management office function or portfolio of connected activities.

Key responsibilities

Programme mobilisation and planning

• Support rapid mobilisation of newly secured programmes, translating contractual commitments into practical delivery plans, governance arrangements, milestones and controls.
• Develop and maintain integrated workplans, mobilisation trackers, responsibility matrices and decision logs.
• Coordinate onboarding of team members, subcontractors and delivery partners, ensuring roles, interfaces and delivery expectations are clear.
• Establish proportionate programme management processes that support pace and control without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
• Support mobilisation readiness reviews and ensure key actions, dependencies and risks are resolved or actively managed.

Project and programme delivery

• Manage day-to-day delivery across assigned projects or workstreams, coordinating multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Track milestones, deliverables, actions, dependencies, assumptions, risks and issues, escalating promptly where required.
• Maintain clear reporting for programme leaders and clients, converting delivery data into concise, decision-focused updates.
• Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and papers, record decisions and ensure agreed actions are completed.
• Support change control, benefits tracking, lessons learned and continuous improvement throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Maintain effective document management, version control and audit-ready programme records.

Commercial, financial and resource management

• Support budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, cost monitoring and financial reporting, working closely with programme and commercial leads.
• Monitor performance against budget and delivery assumptions, identifying emerging pressures and supporting corrective action.
• Maintain resource plans and work with team leads to align capacity and capability with programme priorities.
• Support management of supplier and subcontractor inputs, including deliverables, dependencies, performance information and approvals.
• Promote disciplined delivery and commercial awareness across project teams.

Client and stakeholder coordination

• Build constructive working relationships with clients, delivery partners and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate inputs across technical, operational, digital, data, evaluation and commercial teams.
• Support workshops, delivery reviews and client meetings, ensuring preparation is effective and follow-up is timely.
• Communicate clearly and calmly when priorities shift, resolving routine issues directly and escalating material concerns appropriately.
• Help create a collaborative, accountable and inclusive delivery culture.

Large-scale programme delivery

• Support the mobilisation and delivery of large, complex public-sector programmes, including programmes involving multiple delivery partners and stakeholders.
• Coordinate interdependent workstreams and interfaces across programme governance, operations, digital, data, assurance, communications and reporting.
• Support partner onboarding, delivery tracking, governance, risk and issue management, and performance reporting.
• Maintain a clear line of sight between contractual requirements, programme milestones, operational activity and delivery performance.
• Work flexibly as programmes scale, taking ownership of defined PMO, mobilisation or delivery-management responsibilities.

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience.
• Strong exper…