Location: Hybrid or Home
Salary: £44,000
Contract: 24 Month Fixed Term Contract
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of “On track for inclusive train travel”, a research, scoping and piloting project. This partnership project, funded by Motability Foundation and delivered alongside Community Rail Network (CRN), aims to make rail travel more accessible and inclusive for disabled people, including those with sight loss.
You’ll be working to co-create an effective, tested, adaptable model for training, learning & culture change that can be deployed across the railways. This will ensure blind or partially sighted and disabled people always feel confident and supported when using rail.
You will act as the overall project manager of this complex and exciting project, including working closely with CRN and two of their locally-focused member organisations, Community Rail Lancashire and Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership. While RNIB is the lead partner in reporting terms, this project represents a substantive partnership of the four organisations coming together to form one cross organisational team to deliver on the brief.
This is a fixed term contract of 2 years, and will be suitable for homeworking, or hybrid working at any of our RNIB offices across the UK.
What you’ll need to succeed in this role
Strong Project Management experience, but particularly in user-focussed, innovative projects.
You’ll have experience of collaborative, constructive working with partners as you will be building effective partnerships founded on trust and respect.
You’ll be highly organised and passionate, with the ability to drive projects from the front and delivery on time and to budget.
You’ll be experienced in working in a structured project management environment and utilising a project methodology.
We are looking for resilient, resourceful, and adaptable people to share our passion to make our work happen. This is an opportunity to gain fantastic experience in a major Third Sector organisation and play a key role in how services are delivered across the UK.
It would also be great if you have experience of delivering projects where training was a core component, or within the transport sector.
What We Offer
RNIB prides itself on being a great place to work with a positive, progressive culture. We offer a wide range of benefits including 26 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays) which rises with service, enhanced family friendly benefits, a contributory pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 11% and a rewards platform with employee discounts across over 800 retailers.
For more information on our available benefits, please visit our Benefits of Working at RNIB page.
If you are having trouble applying online or would like more information, please contact us on recruitment@rnib.org.uk.
How to apply -
If you would like to apply for this great job opportunity, please review the documents linked below, then select “Apply Online” at the bottom of this page and complete our application form, telling us how you meet the Specialist Skills, Knowledge and Experience criteria (Section 1 of the person specification in the Job Description). Guidance for completion can be found on each page of the application form. The hiring manager will not be shortlisting applications without a supporting statement.
We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.