Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation
£66,000 per annum
Bedford
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Hybrid Working


Why This Role Matters

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by driving the successful implementation of a high profile, complex project. You’ll play a key role in delivering high-priority change initiatives, supporting the integration of the Pensions Dashboards Service into MaPS business-as-usual operations. As part of the Technology and Change team, you’ll work across a broad range of business change activities—ensuring that implementation is effective, sustainable, and aligned with strategic goals. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in end-to-end implementation to shape the future of pensions access in the UK.

You’ll join a team that’s passionate, collaborative, and driven by the belief that financial confidence should be something everyone can access.

Role Overview

The Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation will report directly to the Senior Programme Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:

What You’ll Be Doing

• Project Management – Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies.

• Delivery – Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.

• Budget – Develop the budget and track delivery within budget.

• Resources – Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage medium sized team.

• Benefits Realisation – Deliver the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes.

• Stakeholder Management – Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.

• Risks & Issues – Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.

• Governance – Support effective governance and decision making. Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for delivery.

• Assurance – Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.

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

• Guidance & Support – Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.

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