Project planner Work, Jobs in Edinburgh, Edh (with Salaries)

Junior Project Manager
British Council —Edinburgh
- £31,000 - £34,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- English
Junior Investment Associate
RGH‑Global Limited —Edinburgh
- £30,000 - £35,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Presentation skills
Part-time Finance and Admin. Assistant
Studio MB —Edinburgh
- £26,500 - £28,500 a year
- Part-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Computer literacy
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4h
Sustainable Mobility Planners (Varying grades)
Pell Frischmann —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Analysis skills
- Leadership
Events Technical Production Planner
Edinburgh International Conference Centre —Edinburgh
- From £31,500 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Analysis skills
- Organisational skills
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Employee discount
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1d
Planner
Montagu Evans —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Business development
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
Assistant Project Manager/ Project Manager (Water Sector)
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Business development
- Mentoring
Marketing Strategist
The Profitable Firm —Edinburgh
- £48,000 - £50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Remote
- Writing skills
- Analysis skills
- Mentoring
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Senior Detail Planner - Fixed Term Contract
Babcock International —Dunfermline
- £45,284 - £52,872 a year
- Overtime
- Annual leave
1d
Water Opportunities - Scotland
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
Principal Project Manager - Renewables
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Project management
- Bachelor's degree
Maintenance Planner – Customer Operations
Invinity Energy Systems —Bathgate
- Computer literacy
- Maintenance
- Continuous improvement
Quick apply
2d
Associate Transport Planner (Development)
WSP —Edinburgh
- Microsoft Word
- Mentoring
- Communication skills
Renewable Energy Professionals
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Master's degree
Principal or Associate Transport Planner
SLR Consulting —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Business development
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Assistant Transport Planner
AtkinsRéalis —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Data analysis skills
- Business development
- Analysis skills
7d
Associate Risk Manager / Project Director
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Bachelor's degree
- Mentoring
Transmission and Distribution Opportunities
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
Paraplanner - Fixed Term Contract
Attivo Group —Grangemouth
- £35,000 - £50,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Work from home
Quick apply
17h
Logisitics and Warehouse & Warrenty Coordinator
Canadian Solar SSES (UK) Ltd. —Edinburgh
- Bachelor's degree
- No degree
- Travel
Quick apply

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Junior Project Manager

British Council -
Edinburgh

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Job details

£31,000 - £34,000 a year

Qualifications

Jira
Microsoft Powerpoint
Cost management
Technical project or programme management experience
Contract management
Microsoft Outlook
Resource allocation planning
Procurement
Stakeholder liaison
English
Microsoft Office Suite
Project team management
Compliance management
Confluence
Partnership building
Risk management
Relationship management
Contracts
Financial management
Networking
Microsoft Project
Project leadership
Negotiated procurement
Project management experience
Communication skills

Full job description

Location: UK or Poland

(residents only – relocation and sponsorship not provided)

Role purpose

Junior Project Manager will be managing the design, development, planning and implementation of projects across product through a matrix of internal and external resources and partnerships, to ensure delivery of value and effective achievement of business objectives.

Responsibilities will include overseeing effective project design, planning, delivery, implementation and realisation. Ideal candidate will manage and / or influence virtual, dispersed project teams to deliver high quality products and services globally.

Main accountabilities

Project leadership and management

Defines and drives a clear vision and delivery strategy for the project, ensuring alignment with key business priorities while remaining adaptable to changing needs and insights.

Takes end to end ownership for delivering outcomes beyond milestones, ensuring the project achieves measurable impact and value.

Develops and evolves project and delivery plans that are realistic, data driven, and responsive to risk, dependencies and shifting priorities.

Establishes a project and delivery environment where teams are set up to succeed, with the right resources, structure, capabilities, and ways of working.

Balances pace, quality, and cost to deliver efficiently while maintaining focus on outcomes.

Project development

Shapes and challenges early business ideas, actively contributing to robust business cases that are outcome-focussed and evidence-based.

Guides initiatives from concept through to delivery, ensuring continuous alignment between strategy and execution.

Builds and maintains external networks to access, absorb and apply professional best practice to develop and improve the British Council’s project management methodology and toolkit.

Performance, reporting and resourcing

Ensures the right resources, skills, and capabilities are in place, working across teams and partners to adjust capacity as needed.

Defines clear success measures, benefits, and performance indicators, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations and organisational strategy and priorities.

Leads reviews, washups and retrospectives, embedding continuous improvement into delivery and sharing insights to build organisational capability.

Customers and stakeholders

Supports management of senior relationships across the British Council, as well as with external agencies, partners and individuals, as required, to support the strategic vision and value realisation.

Builds and maintain effective relationships with internal partners and stakeholders, to ensure the effective, delivery of project goals and outcomes.

Communicates with transparency, clarity and confidence, ensuring stakeholders understand progress, risks, options, and outcomes.

Risk and compliance

Applies governance and compliance requirements in a pragmatic way that enables delivery rather than slows it down

Ensures the British Council meets all relevant internal and external compliance and client requirements (financial, HR, quality management, regulatory, etc.) across the project, to ensure the organisation and all its sub-contractors operate legally, with integrity, and in a way that manages risk effectively.

Commercial and financial management

Manages budgets and commercial performance to ensure delivery achieves strong value for money and expected returns.

Makes informed trade-offs between scope, cost, and timelines to maximise impact and value.

Negotiate and procure agreements with partners/sub-contractors/stakeholders and signoff contracts relating to delivery of the product or service, to meet optimal cost efficiency measures.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

Consistently creates an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of own biases and taking action to mitigate against these.

Ensures people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people’s wellbeing and mental health particularly through periods of significant change.

Has a deep understanding of and takes accountability for putting the British Council’s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and anti-racism into practice.

Makes time for and visibly engages with learning and development related to EDI and anti-racism.

Education

First degree or equivalent qualification/experience

Role specific knowledge and experience

Minimum/essential

Demonstrable experience in managing projects for a multi-national organization, including support procurement and third party supplier and partner arrangements.

Experience of using formal planning tools to create project plans where appropriate (I,e. Miro, Jira, Confluence, Planner, Microsoft Project, etc.)

Excellent verbal and written communication skills using various tools including Outlook, Word, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Fluency in English.

Current residency either in the UK or Poland with unlimited right to work.

Desirable

Experience of leading on digital/online/technology projects on a global scale.

Experience of supporting the negotiation of legal contracts with external partners.

Experience of delivering learning and / or assessment programmes and projects.

British Council values and behaviours

British council values and behaviours are applicable across our organisation, in all roles and at all levels. They are important because they say what we stand for at the British Council and help us to deliver our strategy. We use them to guide our decision making, as well as guiding how we treat one another and the people we work with. These will be assessed in the selection process. Our values are: Open and Committed; Expert and Inclusive; Optimistic and Bold.

Unit: English & Exams / Product / Delivery and Governance

Work style: hybrid

Pay band: 7

UK annual salary:

£31,000 - £34,000

Poland monthly salary (PLN)

11,230 - 14,040

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