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£64,732 - £71,296 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
About £4,010 - £4,330 a month after tax.
Apply by Tuesday 13 October
The date the employer’s listing closes.
Work on-site in London
No relocation package mentioned.
Have senior-level experience
Senior-level role.
28.97% employer pension
Paid in by the employer, per the ad. The legal minimum is 3%.
Candidates should be able to provide evidence of their skills and experience against the following criteria.
The below criteria are essential and will be assessed at application stage;
A Project Delivery qualification at Practitioner level will be expected for this role.
Examples of suitable qualifications are, but not limited to:
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Agile Project Management Practitioner
APM Project Management Qualification
APM Chartered Project Professional
Project Leadership Programme
PMI Project Management Professional
Managing Projects and Leading Workstreams
Evidence to support qualifications will be requested prior to interview.
£60,732 - £71,296
National £60,732 - £67,296
London £64,732 - £71,296
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Alongside your salary of £60,732, Department for Business and Trade contributes £17,594 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).
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Would you like to help deliver programmes that drive economic growth, unlock investment and create opportunities across the UK? Could you contribute to major events that showcase UK business, innovation and trade on the global stage? Are you interested in supporting complex programmes that drive innovation, strengthen critical infrastructure, enable emerging technologies or transform the way government delivers its priorities?
If so, the Project Delivery Expertise Pool (PDEP) could be the opportunity you're looking for.
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) is the UK government department driving economic growth. We help businesses to invest, expand and export, creating jobs, opportunity and prosperity across the UK. Project delivery is central to turning strategic ambition into tangible outcomes that support businesses, communities and citizens.
At the heart of Department's Project Delivery Division is the PDEP which brings together a dynamic community of project delivery professionals who provide flexible delivery expertise across the department's priorities.
As a member of the Pool, you could work across a diverse portfolio of projects and programmes that help deliver the department's objectives. The portfolio spans a broad range of activity, including business and trade, investment, economic growth, innovation, technology, science, major events, place-based development, infrastructure and organisational transformation.
Projects vary in scale, complexity and stage of delivery, providing opportunities to contribute across the full project lifecycle, from early development and mobilisation through to implementation, assurance and benefits realisation.
The Pool provides the expertise, leadership and delivery capability needed to respond flexibly to changing business needs and support successful delivery where it matters most. Working across a variety of assignments, you will have the opportunity to apply and develop your project delivery skills, collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, and contribute to outcomes that have a real impact.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, ambitious and motivated project delivery professional to join BIST's Project Delivery Expertise Pool and contribute to the successful delivery of departmental priorities to support businesses and build economic growth across the UK.
As a Senior Programme Manager within the Project Delivery Expertise Pool, you will lead critical and complex projects and programmes that deliver high value outcomes for the Department. You will be deployed across a variety of initiatives, taking responsibility for shaping delivery strategies, defining scope, guiding multidisciplinary teams to deliver agreed outputs within time, cost and quality constraints. You will use a blend of programme leadership, analytical capability and structured delivery methodologies including Agile, to break down complex problems and design effective solutions. The role involves leading business case development, managing budgets, setting delivery methodologies, implementing appropriate governance and ensuring benefits realisation is achieved. You will engage senior stakeholders, manage risks and issues, organise assurance reviews and champion change management.
As a senior leader, you will set delivery expectations, provide coaching and guidance to project teams and ensure strong performance, accountability and timely reporting against programme objectives. You will be expected to operate confidently in environments with a high level of ambiguity, using sound judgement to shape direction, clarify priorities and maintain delivery momentum.
Due to the nature of the Project Delivery Expertise Pool, there may also be occasions where pool members are required to step into other project delivery roles to support departmental priorities.
Permanent
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
471972
Grade 7
Project Delivery
2
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Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 13th October 2026
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
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It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date, though this is subject to change.
Your application will be sifted against the Experience criteria of the Civil Service Success Profiles.
We aim to sift both the CV and the Personal Statement but, in the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift may be conducted on the CV only. Candidates who pass the initial sift of the CV will either progressed to a full sift where the Personal Statement is then assessed, or progressed straight to further assessment/interview.
Candidates who pass the sift will be invited to interview, where we will assess you on Technical (oral presentation, details will be provided in advance of interview).
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Please note, following a recent change to the Machinery of Government, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) will be renamed to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) as of 20th July 2026. BIST will connect the UK's world-class science and technology base directly to the businesses, places and workers that will drive good growth across the country. Such changes will not affect the selection process for this campaign; however, we wanted to take this opportunity to advise you of the recent changes to our department.
You can find further information here regarding recent governmental changes Machinery of Government changes: Fact Sheet - GOV.UK.
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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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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