NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – is seeking an experienced and driven Project Manager to join its renowned team. This is an outstanding opportunity for a skilled professional looking to contribute to evidence-based best practice in health and social care while advancing their own career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
Applicants must be effective and persuasive communicators, able to demonstrate strong oral, written and presentation skills with a high degree of personal credibility. Proven experience in managing workloads, coordinating complex tasks, and ensuring that deadlines are met is essential for this role.
NICE is a licensed sponsor and can offer a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for eligible candidates, making this an excellent opportunity for professionals seeking to work in the UK’s respected health and care sector.
About the Trust
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) supports practitioners and commissioners in delivering the best possible care to people quickly and efficiently, while ensuring value for the taxpayer. NICE does this by producing practical and accessible guidance for health and care professionals, providing rigorous, independent assessments of complex evidence for new health technologies, and developing recommendations that focus on what matters most to patients and the health and care system. By driving innovation into practice and encouraging the uptake of proven best practice, NICE helps to improve outcomes for everyone. As the expert body for evidence-based best practice and value for money, NICE’s core purpose is to help practitioners and commissioners provide high-quality care without delay, ensuring that public funds achieve the greatest possible impact.
Position: Project Manager
Salary: £46,148 – £52,809
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Manchester
About the Role
Here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) we are going through an exciting period of change and rapid growth. There could not be a better time to join us! As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve the same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things. We understand the importance of creating a respectful, supportive and transparent environment for all our employees which is why your health and wellbeing is a top priority for us!
Main duties of the job
- Develop and manage systems for projects, recording activities and tracking progress.
- Ensure consistency across the work programmes and take the lead on projects, supporting wider project management professional team objectives where appropriate.
- Contribute to the medium- and long-term planning of the work of the project management professional team.
- Ensure deadlines are communicated and successfully met.
- Assess and report any risks associated with the effective running of projects.
- Be a main point of contact for NICE teams, and liaising to ensure appropriate input from the project management professional team in the CQI Improving Timeliness project.
- Liaise with internal staff to negotiate timely planning and delivery of work.
- Identify areas of working practice that can be improved, developing the new process, and communicating and implementing the changes.
Person Specifications
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree, relevant project management qualification, or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in the management of complex projects involving multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of managing workloads to ensure that deadlines are met.
Skills
Essential
- Self-motivated team player with a flexible and adaptable approach to working and able to work independently, unsupervised and to a high standard within tight deadlines.
- Effective and persuasive communicator demonstrating oral, written and presentation skills with a high degree of personal credibility.
- Competent and accurate IT skills (Microsoft 365) with the ability to use computer software to develop or create reports, documents and spreadsheets.
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
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Application Deadline
July 24, 2025