Project Manager - Organisational Development & Change

Job Title: Project Manager - Organisational Development & Change

Salary: The salary is broken down as £44,132 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £52,652 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: 50 Broadway, London, with flexibility to work remotely. NPCC encourages applications from candidates living across the UK. 

Contract – Fixed term contract up to 31 March 2026 (with the potential for further extension subject to funding and performance) 

THE NATIONAL POLICE CHIEFS’ COUNCIL (NPCC)

Policing is operating in a time of global change and uncertainty, the public and our staff need a service which is responsive, able to tackle future challenges and embrace opportunity.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) brings UK police leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public.

We achieve this through:

Coordination – by joining up the operational response to critical national policing issues to deliver policing today and shape the future.

Collaboration – by working in partnership as part of the whole policing system and beyond to improve public safety.

Communication – by sharing the collective expertise, views and action of UK police chiefs.

NPCC ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE TEAM

The Organisational Development and Change (ODC) team is an established function for the NPCC Strategic Hub. It has responsibility for driving continuous improvement across the NPCC, delivering projects of work, and giving advice and guidance to ensure development activity is in line with NPCC and wider policing strategies. The team work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the NPCC can support Chief Officers in the constantly evolving areas of national policing. 

THE ROLE

We are seeking to recruit experienced Project Managers, who will have responsibility for leading on multiple projects across the NPCC landscape. Working at the centre of policing, on the biggest issues for the service, this is an exciting and challenging role where you can make a real difference. You will be required to manage your own portfolio of work, and lead projects utilising your own initiative. You will be highly solutions focused and a skilled problem solver who utilises your excellent project management skills to deliver projects from inception to delivery, with the support of the ODC team. You will regularly manage complex, high profile, politically sensitive work where decisions and delivery have national implications with the potential to impact on the reputation of the whole police service. You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationships with police chiefs, senior stakeholders and other NPCC staff.

The successful candidate would need to have the following experiences and skills:

Management of a project through its life cycle – planning, governance, reporting, benefits, resourcing and finance. Project design including the development of relevant initiation documentation (PID, business case or similar)

Project planning skills including the mapping of milestones deliverables and ongoing progress, using relevant project management products.

An understanding of benefits and experience of working with business area leads and subject matter experts (SME’s) to develop specific and measurable benefits.

Stakeholder mapping and management.

Development and articulation of risk and issues and working with respective SME’s to identify mitigation for those risks.

Provide project reporting in line with specific project requirements and cycles, ODC governance and assurance processes (e.g. RAG, financial data, workforce data etc), benefit management, and the implementation of priorities.

Identify interdependencies and dependencies with other projects and workstreams within NPCC and wider landscape and report them as appropriate.

Demonstrable experience of delivering change projects within a complex environment.

Demonstrable ability to apply project management principles and pragmatically within the organisational environment.

Proven ability to work on own initiative, leading projects through their lifecycle – inception to completion.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - If you join and work for us, you will get access to:

A competitive salary with yearly increments.

Support networks, free Employees' Assistance Programme, Occupational Health and wellbeing services.

Flexitime, with the ability to undertake your hours flexibly and in line with business need.

Hybrid working, with the ability to work remotely dependent on role.

Competitive pension scheme.

Company sick pay.

Job related equipment supplied

Specialist equipment supplied, under Occupational Health referral

Access to the Blue Light Card Scheme for discounts and services (requires a one-off payment of £5).

Development and training opportunities available.

Supportive and flexible training/coaching plan, including regular check-ins throughout your initial period of joining us to ensure you are up to speed with the role and getting the support you need.

VETTING

Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo RV/ CTC level before taking up the post.  

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Please provide a CV and evidence against the following competencies, (350 words maximum per competency) which are based on the knowledge, skills and experience set out in the job description and the competencies in the Competency and Values Framework (CVF). Please note, your CV will be reviewed prior to interview but your initial application will only be assessed on the responses you provide to the following CVF questions.

We are collaborative, Level 2 - Please give an example when you have demonstrated the ability to work with partners/stakeholders to deliver an effective service / outcome, in the face of competing priorities and opinions.

We take ownership, Level 3 -   Please give an example of where you have delivered an outcome for a specific piece of work, and how you embedded any learning into future work.

We analyse critically, Level 3 - Please give an example of when you have been faced with several options in and how you used / gathered information to make informed and sound decisions.

Please click apply now to see the Job Description and other documentation relevant to the post.

Should you want to know more about the role, we would strongly encourage you contact HR & Recruitment on hr-recruitment@npcc.police.uk to arrange an informal conversation.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Occasional national travel may be required. Travel expenses will be paid if location allowance is not being received, or when travel falls outside of the home to work journey. NPCC will pay for overnight accommodation if required.

The Metropolitan Police manage HR for NPCC recruitment.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 06th April 2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence on 1st April 2025.

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will begin week commencing 14th April 2025.

Please note that if you are applying as a secondee from another national police force or government organisation, please contact HR-Recruitment@npcc.police.uk, do not apply online via Oleeo. Online applications will only be accepted for external candidates, or existing MPS employees. If you an external to policing, please ensure you apply through the External Oleeo link.

The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.

If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions