Project Manager in Cheshire, Widnes

Turn bold ideas into real‑world impact. At Community Integrated Care, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live the best life possible. Our Partnerships & Communities team delivers ambitious, multi‑partner programmes that tackle inequality, open doors, and create lasting change for disabled people and the communities we serve.

We’re now looking for an experienced Project Manager (Partnerships & Communities) to lead the delivery of complex, high‑impact programmes across England and Scotland – working with partners, funders, colleagues and people with lived experience to turn strategy into action. If you thrive in complexity, care deeply about social impact, and love bringing people together to deliver meaningful outcomes, this could be the role for you.

This is a full time permanent role with travel to our head office in Widnes at least once a week with regional and national travel as and when required so our ideal candidate will be based within an hour's commute of Widnes.

What is "The Deal" for you?

• Flexibility: You can work your 37.5 hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or split the hours over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
• Pension: contributory pension scheme.
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible.
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.

You’ll lead projects end‑to‑end – from early concept and funding through to mobilisation, delivery, evaluation and legacy – ensuring programmes are well governed, well delivered and genuinely impactful.

In this varied and high-profile role, you will be:

• Managing a diverse portfolio of projects, campaigns and partnerships, delivered to agreed scope, budget, timelines and quality.
• Working closely with external partners, funders and suppliers to coordinate delivery and maximise impact.
• Applying consistent, high‑quality project management standards, documentation and governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Leading risk, safeguarding, health & safety and compliance management across community‑focused programmes.
• Producing board, partner and audit‑ready reporting, giving clear visibility of progress, risks, outcomes and learning.
• Leading impact reporting and evaluation – turning data and insight into evidence, learning and future opportunity.
• Managing project budgets, resources and supplier relationships to ensure value for money and compliance.
• Supporting and developing colleagues, building strong project discipline, capability and collaboration across the team.
• Representing our work confidently in presentations, reviews, events and partner forums.

This is a highly collaborative role, working closely with colleagues across Partnerships & Communities, Group Projects, Operations, Support Services and external organisations.

Our ideal candidate:

• You’ll be a confident and values‑driven project professional who combines strong delivery discipline with empathy, creativity and influence.
• Proven experience leading complex projects end‑to‑end in multi‑stakeholder environments.
• A strong understanding of project governance, assurance, risk management and portfolio delivery.
• Experience working with partners, community organisations or suppliers, building trusted, productive relationships.
• Confidence managing budgets, financial planning and value‑for‑money decisions within projects.
• Excellent communication skills – able to translate complex information into clear, engaging messages for varied audiences.
• Experience using project management tools and digital reporting platforms (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Visio or similar).
• A recognised project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent) or equivalent experience.
• A genuine commitment to inclusion, co‑production and social impact, with an understanding of safeguarding and ethical delivery.
• Above all, you’ll be motivated by purpose, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited by the opportunity to turn ideas into mobilised, high‑impact programmes.

Why join Community Integrated Care?

• Be part of one of the UK’s leading social care charities, delivering nationally recognised, high‑profile programmes.
• Work on ambitious partnerships and campaigns that genuinely change lives.
• Enjoy flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Access learning, development and progression opportunities in a supportive, values‑led culture.
• Be trusted to lead, influence and shape work that has a lasting legacy.

Ready to make a difference? If you’re an experienced Project Manager who wants your work to mean something, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and help us turn partnerships into progress, and ambition into impact.

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

Interested and want to know a bit more? To find out more about our charity check out: We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34. The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.