Project Manager - Digital Upskilling & Firmwide Talent Initiatives in Westminster

We are searching for an experienced Senior Project Manager - Digital Upskilling & Firmwide Talent Initiatives - 6 month FTC. We are seeking a highly capable Senior Project Manager to co‐lead the design, delivery, and ongoing development of RSM's Digital Upskilling Programme (Digital Skills 2.0), along with other critical firmwide talent initiatives on a fixed term contract basis. This role will play a key part in driving cultural and capability transformation across the organisation, ensuring that our people have the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Responsibilities

• Leading end-to-end project management for the firmwide Digital Upskilling Programme, ensuring timely, effective, and high-quality delivery.
• Overseeing the planning, scoping, and implementation of additional strategic talent initiatives as required.
• Developing and maintaining robust project plans, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms.
• Engaging and influencing senior leaders, business partners, and cross‐functional teams to ensure alignment and support for programme objectives.
• Managing expectations, competing demands, and interdependencies across multiple parts of the organisation.
• Facilitating clear, consistent communication across stakeholder groups to ensure transparency and engagement.
• Working with specialist learning provider(s) to bring external best practice and input to bear to drive our Digital Skills 2.0 initiative.
• Applying project management best practice to deliver measurable outcomes and organisational impact.
• Developing change management strategies and toolkits to support adoption, learning, and behavioural change.
• Identifying risks, issues, and barriers to progress, and proactively developing solutions.
• Ensuring all programmes are delivered to a high standard, meeting both strategic intent and business need.
• Leveraging data, insights, and feedback to refine programme design and drive continuous improvement.
• Staying current with emerging trends in digital skills, learning, and talent development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience leading large-scale, high-impact learning projects or programmes within complex organisations.
• Proven ability to operate confidently at senior and executive levels.
• Strong project management expertise, including frameworks, methodologies, and toolkits.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• A track record of delivering change at pace while managing ambiguity and competing demands.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple priorities.
• Experience working in professional services or partnership environments.
• Experience working with specialised third-party learning and skills providers in the digital skills space.
• Background in learning, talent development, digital transformation, or cultural change.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) is advantageous.
• Collaborative, relationship-oriented, and trusted by senior stakeholders.
• Adaptable and resilient, able to deliver under pressure.
• Proactive, solutions-focused, and comfortable navigating complexity.
• A passion for talent development, digital innovation, and future-focused skills.

Benefits

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That's why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have a fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Hybrid and flexible working.
• 27 days holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days).
• Lifestyle, health, and wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme, and access to a virtual GP.
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our in‐house Talent Development team.