Role Overview
Fixed term contract or secondment until 31/03/2028. Interviews will be held W/C 11th May 2026. The LDHE team partners across local authorities and Integrated Care Boards in Essex to improve outcomes for people with learning disabilities and autism. As Project Manager you will support complex, multi‑agency projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring clear objectives, measurable outcomes and delivery to time and quality. You will coordinate across NHS, local authorities and commissioned partners, driving day‑to‑day project activity, monitoring milestones and risks, and delivering high‑quality reporting and governance support.
Accountabilities
- Managing projects that contribute to the strategic aims of the LDHE programme, ensuring agreed outcomes are delivered to time, scope and budget.
- Coordinating all project activity, supporting commissioners and programme leads to deliver workstreams effectively across the programme.
- Developing robust business cases and project documentation, ensuring specialist commissioning and operational input informs proposals and aligns deliverables to programme priorities.
- Monitoring project performance, budgets and resource requirements.
- Identifying, assessing and escalating project risks and issues, ensuring mitigations are agreed and monitored, and managing dependencies across the wider programme.
- Ensuring effective change management processes are in place, capturing, agreeing and governing any changes to scope, deliverables or commissioning activity through appropriate LDHE forums.
- Implementing programme governance, including preparation of board and subgroup papers, coordination of agendas, recording and tracking actions, and ensuring consistent, timely reporting and assurance.
- Maintaining accurate performance and operational data for LDHE projects, producing clear reports, dashboards and analysis to support governance, commissioning decisions and delivery of programme outcomes.
About You
- Educated to degree level or equivalent by extensive experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in a relevant professional area, such as AMP practitioner or Prince 2.
- Evidence of having successfully completed several projects and contributed to a range of other projects and/or programmes.
- Experience of working with a diverse range of individuals at different levels within a complex organisation and engaging them to overcome obstacles.
- Experience of working within a political environment with knowledge of a public sector setting and involvement in a large, complex environment.
- Strong experience in developing, interpreting and presenting performance data and reports, using analytical insights to drive decision‑making and inform project and commissioning activity.
- Experience of working across health and care systems, ideally within an LD and/or autism context, collaborating with NHS, local authority and provider partners to deliver shared outcomes.
- Experience of supporting effective governance arrangements, ensuring discipline around boards, programme forums and meetings, including preparation of papers, tracking actions and enabling clear, timely decision‑making.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essex County Council is a Disability Confident Leader and commits to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job under our Job Interview Scheme. We also commit to interview all veterans and care leavers who meet the minimum requirements of the role. We value integrity and ethical behaviour and ask that applicants embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles.
Benefits
As part of employment with Essex County Council you will receive benefits including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.
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