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Salary: £68,300 - £77,400 inclusive of all allowances
Contractual Hours: 35 hours per week
Basis: Full time, 18 month secondment
Workplace category: Workplace Based
Attachments: Job Information Pack

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We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of major capital and refurbishment programmes, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and value. In this pivotal position, you will act as the senior representative for City Schools for all projects in the portfolio. You will manage consultants and contractors, drive performance, and intervene decisively when delays or issues arise and work closely with colleagues in City Surveyors Department and Chamberlains. You will oversee project budgets, certify payments, and ensure compliance with all corporate, financial, and -statutory requirements and lead on complex stakeholder engagement, ensuring that all appropriate inputs are captured and inform project scope.

You will also play a key strategic role:

- Presenting project updates and recommendations to committees, sponsors, and external bodies.

- Providing advice to the Director of Operations and Estates and the Head Teachers on Project progress, risks and issues.

- Developing and championing project management best practice and tools and owning the management of City Schools Portfolio on Cora and presenting on project progress at City Schools Portfolio Board.

- Leading risk and opportunity management.

- Resolving complex technical challenges and mediating disputes.

- Acting as contract administrator where required.

This is a role for someone who thrives on responsibility, enjoys solving complex problems, and can confidently represent the organisation at senior levels.

This will be a 18 month secondment opportunity.

How to apply: Please visit the following website CVMinder Jobs in Education and submit an application via CV Minder.

We will not consider any applications applied via the City Of London job portal.

Closing date: 23:59pm on 20th April 2026

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The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier should we receive a high number of applications.

Because our roles are so varied, we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ policy for workplace attendance. How many days a week you’ll be required to attend your workplace will depend on the requirements of your role. It’s important that you understand the requirements before applying to ensure you are able to meet them. We are committed to considering requests to work flexibly and job share. Requests will be considered by the recruiting manager in line with our policies and business needs.

For more information on our categories for workplace attendance, please view our guide here.

We will be reviewing this policy and approach at regular intervals to ensure we’re meeting our attendance needs.

City Schools is fully committed to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum for staff, and another for pupils, which are used to help drive progress forward.

It is a top priority for the Schools that we both attract and retain a staff body that is not only excellent, but also reflects the London community within which we live, and our diverse pupil body. As such, it is of paramount importance to the Schools that we acknowledge our current imbalance and seek to rectify this. We are therefore particularly keen to encourage applications from candidates who have African Caribbean, Asian or other Minority Ethnic or mixed heritage. All appointments are merit-based, following a fair, transparent recruitment process. In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, however, the School may employ positive action where diverse candidates demonstrate the ability to perform the role equally well.

City Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.