Job Description

Job title: Senior Project Manager

Department: Business Planning and Performance

Location: Hybrid working – Birmingham office at least 1 day per week

Contract: Fixed-term contract for 36 months for a short-term project or piece of work

Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)

Salary: £53,000 per annum

Grade: 13

Job Req: IM15

The role:

As a Senior Project Manager at the Gambling Commission, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of some of our more complex or strategically significant projects. Providing leadership across multiple projects and multi-disciplinary teams, you will manage stakeholders, project governance and mitigate risk to ensure projects deliver to time, cost and quality.  

As a Senior Project Manager, you will also provide oversight and leadership to project managers within the Planning and Performance team, providing coaching and mentoring as necessary and assuring a consistent standard of project management delivery across the Commission.

Our offer to you:

- Civil Service Pension, with 28.97% employer contribution

- 26 days’ holiday, rising to 29 days after two years’ service (pro rata)

- Holiday purchase scheme (option to buy up to five extra days annual leave)

- Flexible working & family friendly policies

- Ergonomic, fully accessible office, very close to Birmingham New Street Station  

- Open, collaborative and people focused culture

Your responsibilities:

- Create and lead complex or strategically significant projects to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.

- Provide effective leadership, management controls and design appropriate project structures, including delivery methodologies.

- Develop and draft the business case, ensuring appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case.

- Identify and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. 

- Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.

- Support effective governance and decision making. Ensure assurance processes such as gateway reviews are in place and executed. Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations. 

- Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

- Develop and maintain Project Plan.

- Manage performance and report progress both at a project and portfolio reporting level.

- Day-to-day management and leadership of project managers within the planning and performance team, managing performance as well as providing support, guidance and coaching as required. Identify skill requirements and deploy and develop resources. Manage a medium sized team.

- Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team.

- Follow the Gambling Commission’s portfolio and project delivery frameworks and contribute towards its continuous improvement.

What we’re looking for:

Essential criteria:

- Experience of managing complex projects within a dynamic and fast paced environment. 

- Knowledge of project and programme management methodologies, including the relevant qualification (such as APM, Prince2, MSP, PLP, PMI).

- Applied knowledge of structured project management in a multi-disciplinary environment. 

- Experience of stakeholder management and engagement at senior levels (internal and external). 

Your application:

We value diversity in our workplace and are committed to a culture where each individual is engaged and feels that their contribution is valued and respected. We welcome all applications from candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role.

To apply for this position, please see the Gambling Commission careers website.  

The Gambling Commission have an anonymised recruitment process, so you should not attach a CV to your application. Instead, application questions will ask you to evidence how your personal skills, qualities and experience match the essential criteria for the role.  

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own), applications may be declined. Please see our candidate guidance on our website for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

The selection process for this vacancy will be comprised of a remote (MS Teams) interview consisting of competency and technical questions. To prepare for your interview, please familiarise yourself with the STAR technique for answering interview questions.

The closing date for this role is midnight on Sunday 2nd August 2026. 

Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 10th August 2026.

Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying as we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Incomplete applications will be discounted from shortlisting. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.

About us:

The Gambling Commission is the regulatory authority responsible for overseeing and regulating gambling activities in the United Kingdom. Our primary role is to ensure that gambling is conducted fairly, openly, and free from crime, while also protecting vulnerable individuals from harm