AMS PSR

Department for Education

On behalf of The Department for Education, we are looking for a Project Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract based in Glasgow (hybrid).

As a Project Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Oversee timely delivery of projects by monitoring progress, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Apply organisational project management standards and ensure delivery to agreed quality, time and budget.
• Manage project risks, issues, and opportunities, escalating when required, and control any changes impacting delivery.
• Coordinate dependencies, interfaces, and third‑party contributions while maintaining strong supplier and stakeholder communication.
• Track, measure, and monitor project benefits and performance targets, reporting progress through agreed channels.
• Contribute to the project management centre of excellence by sharing lessons learned and seeking guidance when needed.

Essential:

• Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills with experience of reporting to a senior audience.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships by communicating, influencing and negotiating at all levels with technical and business teams, project stakeholders and sponsors.
• Focus on continuous improvement and developing working practices, for self and others.
• Self-motivated and highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Uses initiative to resolve issues and is confident in ability to make decisions.
• Strong MS Office suite knowledge, including Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DfE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

DE&I Commitment

DfE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant / commitment

DfE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".