Assistant Project Manager

URGENT: Fixed-Term Full Time Assistant Project Managers wanted – all London regions, Surrey, Bucks & Berkshire, West Midlands, North West or Yorkshire

Are you a highly-organised individual with a keen interest in planning and logistics? Love to network at all levels within your community? If you’re the type of person who holidays with a spreadsheet in hand and is always half an hour early for any engagement, then we’d love to hear from you.

This role presents a unique opportunity for confident communicators and enthusiastic managers looking to pursue a career in project management, events management or logistics.

Our Assistant Project Managers/ Delivery Assistants are responsible for delivering of a number of youth-focused social integration programmes at a time. They manage relationships with local community partners, oversee the logistics during delivery of our NCS Programme, ensure quality at every programme milestone.

To be successful in this role you must have relevant experience (in a paid or voluntary role) including:

Large scale events or project management e.g. managing youth programmes or complex events

Managing or motivating small groups of people in stressful environments

Working with groups of young people

Understanding of working with diverse community groups. An ability to build stronger communities and advocating change in society.

The Challenge is a fast-growing social enterprise that connects and inspires people across Britain to strengthen their communities. We work on a local level to bring together people from all ages, ethnicities and walks of life, connecting communities and building trust. We are the largest provider of the NCS, a life-changing experience for 15-17 year-olds. By taking part, young people learn new skills which are invaluable for their CVs or college applications.

For more information and to apply, please apply.

This summer, 42,000 young people will graduate from our NCS programme and the success of this hinges on our 4,500 seasonal staff members. See what our alumni staff have to say about their experiences on the programme:

“As the role is very dynamic, no day is ever the same and I loved the variety it gave me. Through this role I gained confidence in my ability to multitask and work with delivery staff to ensure that the programme ran smoothly. I was able to work in various venues and with a wide range of partners.”