Public Initiatives Project Manager - Castle Point Borough Council

Public initiatives Project Manager - Castle Point Borough Council

Castle Point, Essex

Full-Time, Temporary

6-12 Months Contract, 37 Hours per Week

£428.85 PAYE / £550 Umbrella per day.

Closing Date: Monday 1st June 2026

Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Castle Point Borough Council to recruit a Public Initiatives Project Manager on a full-time, temporary basis.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to work on-site 3 days per week.

Why Castle Point? Castle Point Borough Council is a statutory body responsible for employing nearly 350 staff, and delivering over 150 council services, both statutory and for the community's well being and benefit. Castle Point Borough Council aims to provide high quality and financially sustainable services while prioritising outstanding customer service, transparency in decision making, and promoting local democracy. Additionally, the council seeks to transform, modernise, and improve its performance, as well as support and enable the communities within its jurisdiction to be strong, healthy, and thriving.

Our values: Trust, Respect, Improving and Learning, and Customer Focus

The Opportunity

Assist the Assistant Director Environment and the Environment Team with a number of projects related to the Council's £2.5 million Public Initiatives Fund, including rejuvenation and improvements to the Council's playgrounds, parks & open spaces.

The role will involve

• Initiating and producing procurement documents for the projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget while adhering to environmental regulations and promoting sustainable practices. This includes managing programme and project timelines, budgets, and resources, and collaborating with stakeholders to meet governance requirements and ensure project compliance.
• Planning and scheduling - developing plans for the projects, timelines, and milestones, identifying dependencies and potential risks, and reporting these to senior management and through internal governance.
• Exploring how the projects within our parks and open spaces can minimise anti social behaviour and become safe spaces.
• Risk management - identifying, managing and mitigating potential project risks, including environmental risks.
• Stakeholder management - collaborating with stakeholders, including internal teams, external contractors, and community members, to ensure successful project delivery.
• Maintaining accurate records and reports on project progress, including financial data, environmental compliance and waste reduction efforts.
• Working with the council communications team to promote the various projects.

Accountabilities

• Establish separate programmes for each project.
• Assist with the production of specifications for each project.
• Liaise with the Council's procurement leads.
• Arrange meetings with stakeholders.
• Identify and manage risk for each project, ensuring these risks are reduced.Ensure each project drives down anti social behaviour and makes safe spaces at the centre of its outcomes, particularly in our parks & open spaces.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Project management experience, particularly relating to rejuvenation of parks and open spaces.
• Good communication skills.
• Knowledge of rejuvenating parks & open spaces.
• Experience working in parks & open spaces.
• Play space procurement and development of open spaces, data management, and building.
• Experience with lake management - desirable.

Castle Point Borough Council is proud to be a disability confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We're also committed to interview veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role, for which they are applying. Please speak to our recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

Castle Point Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

What to do Next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website. If you have any queries relating to this post, please email .