Graduate Project Manager

Contract: 2 Years Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Agile (20-40% in office and 3-4 days working from home)

Salary: £31,000 per annum

Closing date for completed applications: 28th June 2026

Interviews will be held on: week commencing 13th July 2026

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

The L&Q Graduate Programme has been designed to help you get the career you have always wanted. This role provides the opportunity to start a new career path with a values-led organisation that will support you to learn and develop throughout the programme and beyond.

Our Development team at L&Q is delivering a range of exciting new build housing development. As a graduate trainee, you will gain hands-on experience across all stages of the development process. You will build your skills in areas like financial modelling, planning, construction project management, stakeholder engagement and property handovers. More than that, you will be part of a team focused on creating places where communities can thrive and where homes, schools, parks and public spaces come together to support long-term, inclusive growth.

By the end of the training period, you will be expected to have:

• Completed the Level 4 Project Management qualification and APM PMQ exam
• Developed a strong understanding of the development sector.
• Contributed effectively to the team’s projects and objectives.
• Enhanced the organisation’s reputation by demonstrating a commitment to professional excellence and staff development.

Overview of the role:

We are looking for an ambitious graduate to join our busy Development team, based in London to train as a Project Manager. You will be involved in a wide variety of project management tasks within a development setting. Working closely with internal and external professionals from across the development sector, you will develop technical expertise and gain valuable experience in project management.

You will be engaged in a challenging role from day one and be accountable for your area of responsibility whilst being supported by a project manager and line manager to guide and develop skills where required.

Strong organisation skills are essential to this role as well as excellent communication and an understanding of what first-class customer service skills are. We are looking for a candidate with resilience, drive, enthusiasm and a passion to help people.

Other essential skills and experience include:

• Ability to multi-task and work to deadline
• Self-motivated
• Good understanding of Excel

Person Requirements:

• Demonstrate resilience and tenacity
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Be commercially minded and a strategic thinker
• Must be flexible in terms of travel
• Must be able to work in the UK

Qualification Requirements:

• A degree in a real estate discipline or similar is desirable, but a passion for development is more important, so we will consider any Bachelor’s degree.
• GCSE grade C/4 or above in English and maths (or equivalent)
• We will support you to complete a Level 4 qualification in Project Management, with the opportunity to achieve the Association for Project Management (APM) PMQ.

What you can expect:

• Great company benefits
• Great breadth and variety of experiences through a structured programme within your chosen discipline
• You will have access to outstanding training offered internally.
• You will be supported throughout the programme by an experienced line manager and mentor.
• In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 28 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance.

We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you’re interested in part-time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours – if it’s feasible then we’ll make it happen.

We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.

We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.

L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 110,000 homes, primarily across London the South East and the North West of England.

As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.

Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.