Senior Project Manager Ref. 2495
Technology Roles
London
Permanent
£50,149 plus £5,128 skills allowance
About us
We’re the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. We work with the UK’s foreign partners to support global stability by combating international terrorism and the spread of weapons. We work secretly around the world, gathering intelligence to promote and protect the UK’s interests and help stay ahead of our adversaries.
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll make sure we’ve got the skills, tools and systems we need to protect the UK. You’ll do this by leading the delivery of exciting and complex change projects and activities. Working with senior leaders, you’ll get to grips with problems, find efficient ways of working and report on progress. You’ll also influence top-level thinking and decision-making across a range of teams.
When working with subject matter experts – both internally and externally – you’ll make sure everyone knows what’s expected of them. You’ll look to proactively upskill others and share your knowledge when mentoring and coaching other colleagues.
Day-to-day, you’ll deliver projects within tight timeframes and to agreed cost and resource constraints. As part of this, you’ll use a blend of recognised project management and change tools and frameworks to manage risks and achieve agreed outcomes. At times, the work will be ambiguous, so you’ll use your skills to balance a range of priorities, all while keeping focused. While you’ll pay great attention to detail, you’ll enjoy the freedom to think innovatively to deliver great results.
About you
You’ll be a qualified project management practitioner with experience of putting multiple methodologies into practice. You’ll have professional PPM qualification where you’ll either be chartered or hold MAPM status or accredited in Prince 2/MSP/ Agile/Scaled Agile.
Ideally, you’ll have experience of IT delivery. But more importantly, you’ll be motivated by the positive impact you’ll have here. You’ll enjoy juggling competing demands helping other people across the organisation. And with great communication skills, you’ll have the confidence to influence others and take senior leaders on a journey with you. This’ll all be supported by your background of inspiring teams with different professions to deliver desired outcomes.
Training and development
We’re hugely committed to staff development, so you’ll benefit from a broad range of development and training opportunities. As soon as you join, you’ll be supported to achieve your full potential. You’ll quickly understand what we do and how we do it, including how we operate overseas. And because we value professional skills, we’ll also offer you an additional allowance to develop in these areas. We also support flexible working arrangements and actively encourage a healthy work-life balance.
You’ll receive a starting salary of £50,149 plus other benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave, automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days’ public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Opportunities to work flexibly, subject to business needs
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars
- Paid parental and adoption leave
Culture and working environment
As part of our team, you’ll discover an inclusive workplace that’s welcoming, supportive and encouraging. You’ll be part of an organisation where people want to support one another and make a difference. Aside from fostering an open culture, we’ve got a range of growing affinity groups. For example:
• Ethnic Minority and gender equality networks
• Groups supporting wellbeing, mental health, neurodiversity and disability
• Faith/No Faith communities for staff to come together
• LGBTQ+ support networks
You’ll also find a variety of sports, activity and social groups to help you settle in and connect with people with similar interests.
Before you apply
To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen. We do have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.
Honesty and integrity are really important if you want to work at MI6. Take some time to read about the vetting process and make sure you meet the criteria in the vetting pages of the ‘How to Apply’ section. The process can take some time, but this is just because it’s thorough. Giving misleading information and omitting or concealing information during the recruitment and vetting process is viewed very seriously.
The role is based in London, so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application.
Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application.
Equal opportunities
At MI6, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce.
We’re Disability Confident
MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview where practicable; this is known as ‘Offer of an Interview’. To secure an interview for this vacancy, you’ll need to show (as a minimum) that you hold professional PPM qualifications (i.e. chartered/MAPM status, accredited in Prince 2/MSP/ Agile/Scaled Agile).
To secure an interview for this vacancy, you’ll need to show (as a minimum) that you hold professional PPM qualifications (i.e. chartered/MAPM status, accredited in Prince 2/MSP/Agile/Scaled Agile) and have experience of putting these methodologies into practice.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. One of your parents must be a British Citizen or must have the nationality or citizenship from our approved list of countries (for more info link to website / JD). If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. (for more info link to website / JD). Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years and 6 months, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Discretion is vital. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member. Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside of the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. Further information on our eligibility criteria can be found on the Applying section.
What to expect
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
• We’ll sift applications and assess your suitability.
• If you pass, you’ll be invited to a technical telephone interview.
• If you pass, you’ll be invited to an assessment centre.
• If you pass, you’ll start out vetting process.
Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process in order to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.
Our vetting
To work in this role you will need the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community has to go through and it can take some time. As part of the DV process you will be asked to fill in a detailed questionnaire and attend an interview with a vetting officer. In your interview the vetting officer will have a thorough, compassionate and honest discussion with you about you as a person and your life experiences, to ensure holding a DV clearance is right for you. You don’t need to do any preparation for your vetting interview, just be honest and be yourself. All applicants for DV are treated impartially and consistently, irrespective of gender, race, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics.
Right to withdraw:
Please be aware that we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
We’re the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. We work with the UK’s foreign partners to support global stability by combating international terrorism and the spread of weapons. We work secretly around the world, gathering intelligence to promote and protect the UK’s interests and help stay ahead of our adversaries.
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll make sure we’ve got the skills, tools and systems we need to protect the UK. You’ll do this by leading the delivery of exciting and complex change projects and activities. Working with senior leaders, you’ll get to grips with problems, find efficient ways of working and report on progress. You’ll also influence top-level thinking and decision-making across a range of teams.
When working with subject matter experts – both internally and externally – you’ll make sure everyone knows what’s expected of them. You’ll look to proactively upskill others and share your knowledge when mentoring and coaching other colleagues.
Day-to-day, you’ll deliver projects within tight timeframes and to agreed cost and resource constraints. As part of this, you’ll use a blend of recognised project management and change tools and frameworks to manage risks and achieve agreed outcomes. At times, the work will be ambiguous, so you’ll use your skills to balance a range of priorities, all while keeping focused. While you’ll pay great attention to detail, you’ll enjoy the freedom to think innovatively to deliver great results.
About you
You’ll be a qualified project management practitioner with experience of putting multiple methodologies into practice. You’ll have professional PPM qualification where you’ll either be chartered or hold MAPM status or accredited in Prince 2/MSP/ Agile/Scaled Agile.
Ideally, you’ll have experience of IT delivery. But more importantly, you’ll be motivated by the positive impact you’ll have here. You’ll enjoy juggling competing demands helping other people across the organisation. And with great communication skills, you’ll have the confidence to influence others and take senior leaders on a journey with you. This’ll all be supported by your background of inspiring teams with different professions to deliver desired outcomes.
Training and development
We’re hugely committed to staff development, so you’ll benefit from a broad range of development and training opportunities. As soon as you join, you’ll be supported to achieve your full potential. You’ll quickly understand what we do and how we do it, including how we operate overseas. And because we value professional skills, we’ll also offer you an additional allowance to develop in these areas. We also support flexible working arrangements and actively encourage a healthy work-life balance.
You’ll receive a starting salary of £50,149 plus other benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave, automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days’ public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Opportunities to work flexibly, subject to business needs
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars
- Paid parental and adoption leave
Culture and working environment
As part of our team, you’ll discover an inclusive workplace that’s welcoming, supportive and encouraging. You’ll be part of an organisation where people want to support one another and make a difference. Aside from fostering an open culture, we’ve got a range of growing affinity groups. For example:
• Ethnic Minority and gender equality networks
• Groups supporting wellbeing, mental health, neurodiversity and disability
• Faith/No Faith communities for staff to come together
• LGBTQ+ support networks
You’ll also find a variety of sports, activity and social groups to help you settle in and connect with people with similar interests.
Before you apply
To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen. We do have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.
Honesty and integrity are really important if you want to work at MI6. Take some time to read about the vetting process and make sure you meet the criteria in the vetting pages of the ‘How to Apply’ section. The process can take some time, but this is just because it’s thorough. Giving misleading information and omitting or concealing information during the recruitment and vetting process is viewed very seriously.
The role is based in London, so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application.
Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application.
Equal opportunities
At MI6, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce.
We’re Disability Confident
MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview where practicable; this is known as ‘Offer of an Interview’. To secure an interview for this vacancy, you’ll need to show (as a minimum) that you hold professional PPM qualifications (i.e. chartered/MAPM status, accredited in Prince 2/MSP/ Agile/Scaled Agile).
To secure an interview for this vacancy, you’ll need to show (as a minimum) that you hold professional PPM qualifications (i.e. chartered/MAPM status, accredited in Prince 2/MSP/Agile/Scaled Agile) and have experience of putting these methodologies into practice.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. One of your parents must be a British Citizen or must have the nationality or citizenship from our approved list of countries (for more info link to website / JD). If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. (for more info link to website / JD). Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years and 6 months, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Discretion is vital. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member. Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside of the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. Further information on our eligibility criteria can be found on the Applying section.
What to expect
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
• We’ll sift applications and assess your suitability.
• If you pass, you’ll be invited to a technical telephone interview.
• If you pass, you’ll be invited to an assessment centre.
• If you pass, you’ll start out vetting process.
Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process in order to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.
Our vetting
To work in this role you will need the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community has to go through and it can take some time. As part of the DV process you will be asked to fill in a detailed questionnaire and attend an interview with a vetting officer. In your interview the vetting officer will have a thorough, compassionate and honest discussion with you about you as a person and your life experiences, to ensure holding a DV clearance is right for you. You don’t need to do any preparation for your vetting interview, just be honest and be yourself. All applicants for DV are treated impartially and consistently, irrespective of gender, race, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics.
Right to withdraw:
Please be aware that we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
This Program / Vacancy is closed to applications.
