Overview

This role provides a key project management function to two key areas of the CAA’s sustainability work. As Project Manager for our Aviation Environmental Reporting function (AER) and Sustainability Portfolio Board (SPB), your responsibility will be to ensure effective project management methods are applied to lead and deliver the reporting of projects.

The AER aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the environmental performance and impacts of the aviation industry, including airlines, airports, and other regulated entities. It also aims to identify areas for improvement and offer recommendations. Your role will be to help us turn our ambitious objectives into a set of deliverable milestones carefully planned to consider strategic priorities, resources and risks.

The SPB is an internal governance board that provides governance to sustainability work across the CAA. Management of the Sustainability Portfolio Board will involve working across the CAA to ensure reporting on a range of ongoing projects is completed as well as taking an active role in keeping up to date on progress on those projects. It will also include delivering a monthly meeting for senior colleagues.

Key Accountabilities  

Working with the Sustainability Leadership team, Programme Lead and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to support the management of environmental reporting initiatives and the SPB.

Your key accountabilities will include:

  • Stakeholder Management, including project governance and reporting to stakeholders up to Senior Management level.
  • Working alongside the portfolio coordinator to deliver all aspects of work through the full lifecycle, working to the appropriate project management methodology.
  • Prepare and provide reports suitable for presentation at Executive Committee and Board level.
  • Financial management of budget control.
  • Internal and third-party resources management and collaboration with procurement to manage supplier relationships.
  • Meeting management and coordination.

About you 

You will have experience of managing projects throughout the whole life cycle. You will be responsible for optimising available project resources (both internal and third-party resources), for their subsequent management throughout the project, and highlighting potential resourcing conflicts to the Head of Environmental Reporting and the cross-CAA Sustainability Delivery Lead. This is a hands-on role which will rely on your excellent communications skills to enable effective and regular engagement with internal and external stakeholders up to Senior Manager level. You apply best practice project management principles while remaining open-minded and thinking creatively about the challenges facing the project, adapting your approach to suits the situation.

Essential Criteria:

  • Experience in managing a range of reporting projects, with a good understanding of project management techniques.
  • Able to effectively plan and deliver projects in a portfolio environment.
  • Able to manage budgets and working with financial reporting tools.
  • Confidently able to manage a wide range of inputs and the preparations for a portfolio governance meeting.
  • Evidence of owning the delivery of results whilst remaining resilient and adaptable, particularly in resolving issues.
  • Confident to positively influence whilst remaining open to challenge.
  • Experience in collaborative leadership across an organisation.
  • Strong active listening and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with staff and management.
  • Have managed relationships with stakeholders up to Senior Manager level both internally and externally.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge and understanding of the aviation industry, environmental sustainability, or regulators.
  • Able to draft clear, concise written materials.
  • Formal Project Management qualifications such as Prince 2, APM or Agile.

We are passionate about diversity and ensuring all are included at the CAA. We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

As a member of the Disability Confident scheme, applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a role with us will be guaranteed an interview. We use fair and inclusive selection approaches to hire the best person for the job based on merit alone. If you require an adjustment for any reason, please let us know.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.