Senior Legal Project Manager (DCO)

12 month FTC (with a view to go permanent)

Any UK Location: London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow or Edinburgh

A rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Legal Project Manager to join a highly regarded Legal Project Management function, supporting complex, high-value infrastructure and planning matters.

This role will sit at the heart of nationally significant projects, working closely with legal teams, clients and external stakeholders to drive structured, compliant and efficient delivery across the full project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end coordination of complex infrastructure / DCO matters, ensuring timelines, dependencies and key milestones are effectively managed
• Oversee multi-workstream delivery, aligning legal teams, consultants and stakeholders to agreed programmes
• Establish and maintain robust project governance including plans, risk registers, reporting and tracking tools
• Manage stakeholder communication across clients, legal teams and external advisors, ensuring clarity on deliverables and deadlines
• Identify and manage risks, issues and programme changes, escalating where required and driving resolution

Key Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects, ideally within legal, infrastructure or regulated environments
• Strong understanding of Development Consent Orders (DCO), NSIPs or similar large-scale planning frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across senior legal and non-legal audiences
• Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments
• Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) desirable

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