Project Manager (Pride in Place)

• Accountable for overseeing total spend and all project deliverables across a complex range of capital and revenue programmes, alongside providing leadership and governance support to the Neighbourhood Board and Chair, to ensure effective delivery of the Neighbourhood Action Plan, including follow through to sustainable outcomes.
• Provide leadership support, to the Neighbourhood Board and Chair, and act as the key link between Ministers, the Council, the Board, communities and stakeholders.
• Accountable for ensuring project documentation is compliant with the requirements of the Board and in line with the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government guidance (MHCLG).
• Accountable for ensuring effective systems and processes are in place to ensure all programme activity contributes towards the efficient administration and management of the Neighbourhood Action Plan including financial, procurement and performance monitoring requirements.
• Accountable for implementing and overseeing a risk register, ensuring proactive management and mitigation measures are in place, with accountability for addressing issues and ensuring these are effectively resolved.
• Implement and manage a robust application and assessment framework to enable the Neighbourhood Board to consider and allocate funding for projects on a fair, consistent, inclusive and transparent basis.
• Support the Neighbourhood Board to directly commission activity that achieves the priorities within the Neighbourhood Action Plan.
• On project approval, manage the drafting, issuing and monitoring of grant funding agreements.
• Engagement, when required, of professional assistance on legal, financial and technical project management issues to ensure the smooth delivery of any commissioned activity.
• Accountable for all financial and programme delivery reporting, including timely and accurate information relating to the tracking, recording, reporting and cash flow of all programme expenditure.
• Accountable for ensuring all monitoring and evaluation requirements are fulfilled, with accurate and timely drafting of performance returns to MHCLG.
• Management of ongoing local engagement processes that help to refresh or reconfirm the priorities within the Neighbourhood Action Plan.
• Ensure all activities comply with the current legislation, including financial regulations and relevant legislation such as Data Protection, health and safety and safeguarding responsibilities.
• Embed diversity, inclusion and strength-based working practices across all ways of working and delivery.

The Person

If you meet the essential criteria outlined below, we'd like to hear from you:

Educated to degree level or proven relevant experience.

Experience of working with communities.

Experience of working collaboratively with senior management, politicians, and other key senior stakeholders, evidencing credibility and impact as a leader.

Significant experience of administering large, complex projects, and government funded regeneration programmes.

Experience across all aspects of contract management, including monitoring and evaluation, and procurement regulations.

Deep experience of cross-sector partnership working and complex stakeholder engagement, including working collaboratively with diverse local communities and demonstrating leadership in equality and diversity.

Experience of participatory approaches to working with residents and partners.

Senior experience of strategic decision-making, including anticipating risks and leading the resolution of complex and sensitive issues.

Experience of how to steer funded programmes towards longer term sustainable operation, beyond the initial period of funding availability.

Ability to develop practical delivery plans from strategic objectives.

Understanding of public sector service delivery and change management.

As a progressive employer, we offer the opportunity to work in this role as a "blended working" arrangement with home-working opportunities and occasional office-working as required.

While part of the role can and will be carried out remotely, candidates should be able to travel to and attend office locations in Methil and Buckhaven as required.

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week, Monday to Friday but may require occasional evening and weekend working.

Location: Methil

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement.

The Pride in Place Programme is a new government funding programme, aimed at putting power into the hands of local people in some of the most in-need neighbourhoods across the UK, so that they can decide how to regenerate their local area. It gives communities control of £2m every year for the next 10 years, to be spent on projects that will make a real difference to the neighbourhoods they live in.

Fife Council and the Methil and Buckhaven Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of the Neighbourhood Action Plan and Investment Plan.

Are you an experienced project manager who can turn ambition into action? Do you thrive at the point where communities, partners, politics and delivery come together? Fife Council and the Methil and Buckhaven Neighbourhood Board are looking for a confident, collaborative and commercially minded Project Manager to lead a major, ten-year investment programme, that will make a visible and lasting difference for residents.

The Pride in Place Programme aims to help residents and partners, shape priorities through the newly appointed local Neighbourhood Board. As the Project Manager, you will be at the heart of this work: developing and implementing the Neighbourhood Action Plan, overseeing complex capital and revenue projects, and ensuring strong governance, financial management and reporting throughout delivery.

This is a high-profile opportunity to lead with influence, build trust across communities, support effective decision-making and ensure investment translates into sustainable outcomes for local people.

You will bring significant experience of leading large, complex programmes, ideally within regeneration, local government or another complex public sector environment. You will be confident working with senior stakeholders, elected members, government departments, community leaders and residents, and you will understand how to balance ambition, accountability and practical delivery.

We are looking for someone who is highly organised, politically aware, financially astute and comfortable navigating complexity. Just as importantly, you will be passionate about inclusive engagement, partnership working and helping communities shape the places they call home.

This is a rare chance to lead a long-term, resident-led investment programme with real scale, visibility and purpose. You will have the opportunity to shape meaningful change, support local pride, strengthen partnerships and help deliver improvements that communities can see, feel and benefit from, for years to come.

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