MI6
Project Manager / Senior Project Manager Ref. 3246
Department: Technology Roles
Location(s): Central London
Salary: £46,741 - £59,678 ( depending on role, skill and experience)
Job description
Salary: Project Manager £46,741 - £50,246, dependent on skills and experience plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £4,198.
Senior Project Manager £55,523 £59,678, dependent on skills and experience plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £5,128.
Flexible Working: we support full-time, part-time, compressed, and flexible working patterns. Due to the nature of the role homeworking will not be possible.
About Us
We re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS). Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
The Role
As a Project Manager you ll be working in a unique and challenging environment as part of an innovative team, delivering a portfolio of projects that ll help us protect the UK. From managing projects across science, tech, and finance, to driving business change and reporting progress to stakeholders, you ll be working closely with colleagues to deliver projects from start to finish.
Risk management will also be part of your role, as you ll identify, handle, and mitigate risk, working with stakeholders and external partners on short and medium-term projects across programmes such as digital transformation. You don t need to be a subject matter expert; your knowledge and application of different methodologies will be sufficient and allow you to focus on a tech or non-tech Portfolio. Whilst this role is uniquely complex and requires a level of sensitivity due to the nature of the work, your work will always be rewarding.
As a Senior Project Manager, you ll be responsible for the delivery of multi-faceted and sometimes volatile projects or programmes. Managing tasks and team members, you ll underpin the overall strategic objective by meeting the needs of the business and business problem. You ll be a pathfinder for future project managers innovating within a small, tight-knit team to translate business requirements into actionable outcomes for customers and stakeholders alike. Importantly, you ll be the kind of person who is approachable and friendly, you ll take an active role in mentoring and coaching other colleagues, contributing to the Project Management Community of Practice. And demonstrating leadership qualities by supporting others to upskill and build their career in an inclusive environment.
About You
As a Project Manager at MI6, it s important that you have experience using project management methodologies like Prince2 , Agile and SAFe A skilled communicator you ll influence a range of customers and stakeholders, collaborating with staff at all levels and mentoring junior members of the team.
A resilient problem-solver with innate curiosity, you ll be comfortable thinking strategically, bringing innovation to the team, and collaborating on cultural change initiatives. Crucially, you ll be able to show competence across requirements and resource management, planning, assurance, budgeting, cost management, and governance.
If you re applying to be a Senior Project Manager, you ll take this a step further. Ideally, you ll have industry-recognised qualifications such as membership of the Association for Project Management (APM ) alongside experience managing complex projects from start to finish. You ll know how to coach teams in Agile and Lean practices, identify and deal with potential risks and bring a Project Delivery Capability perspective to the team. A long-term thinker, you ll take ownership of projects, centering client needs and solving their problems within organisational constraints.
Whatever level you join us at, you ll have experience working with Agile methodologies, communicating with stakeholders, and articulating complex requirements clearly.
Training and Development
We re committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We have an exceptional skills community dedicated to supporting you. You ll have a full induction to the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of your role, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.
There ll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring, alongside opportunities to pursue career pathways which cover specialism tracks. We use the Project Delivery Capability framework as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you.
We ll also support you to work towards professional qualifications if you choose, including SAFe certification in Agile, Certificated SAFe for government and APMG (Agile Project Management Practitioner) Change Management. We ll even help you qualify for full membership of the APM (Association for Project Management) or Chartered Project Professional (CHpp ). Depending on your experience and skills, you ll have access to training opportunities and support mechanisms to progress towards APM certification within 12 months of joining the team.
Whatever your professional goals, we ll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role and throughout your career.
Rewards and Benefits
You ll receive a starting salary of £46,741 - £50,246 as a Project Manager dependant on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £4,198.
As a Senior Project Manager £55,523 £59,678, dependent on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £5,128.
At MI6, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our websites:
We re Disability Confident
MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our Offer of Interview (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:
Project Manager
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
Before You Apply
To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here.
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Project Manager / Senior Project Manager Ref. 3246
Department: Technology Roles
Location(s): Central London
Salary: £46,741 - £59,678 ( depending on role, skill and experience)
Job description
Salary: Project Manager £46,741 - £50,246, dependent on skills and experience plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £4,198.
Senior Project Manager £55,523 £59,678, dependent on skills and experience plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £5,128.
Flexible Working: we support full-time, part-time, compressed, and flexible working patterns. Due to the nature of the role homeworking will not be possible.
About Us
We re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS). Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
The Role
As a Project Manager you ll be working in a unique and challenging environment as part of an innovative team, delivering a portfolio of projects that ll help us protect the UK. From managing projects across science, tech, and finance, to driving business change and reporting progress to stakeholders, you ll be working closely with colleagues to deliver projects from start to finish.
Risk management will also be part of your role, as you ll identify, handle, and mitigate risk, working with stakeholders and external partners on short and medium-term projects across programmes such as digital transformation. You don t need to be a subject matter expert; your knowledge and application of different methodologies will be sufficient and allow you to focus on a tech or non-tech Portfolio. Whilst this role is uniquely complex and requires a level of sensitivity due to the nature of the work, your work will always be rewarding.
As a Senior Project Manager, you ll be responsible for the delivery of multi-faceted and sometimes volatile projects or programmes. Managing tasks and team members, you ll underpin the overall strategic objective by meeting the needs of the business and business problem. You ll be a pathfinder for future project managers innovating within a small, tight-knit team to translate business requirements into actionable outcomes for customers and stakeholders alike. Importantly, you ll be the kind of person who is approachable and friendly, you ll take an active role in mentoring and coaching other colleagues, contributing to the Project Management Community of Practice. And demonstrating leadership qualities by supporting others to upskill and build their career in an inclusive environment.
About You
As a Project Manager at MI6, it s important that you have experience using project management methodologies like Prince2 , Agile and SAFe A skilled communicator you ll influence a range of customers and stakeholders, collaborating with staff at all levels and mentoring junior members of the team.
A resilient problem-solver with innate curiosity, you ll be comfortable thinking strategically, bringing innovation to the team, and collaborating on cultural change initiatives. Crucially, you ll be able to show competence across requirements and resource management, planning, assurance, budgeting, cost management, and governance.
If you re applying to be a Senior Project Manager, you ll take this a step further. Ideally, you ll have industry-recognised qualifications such as membership of the Association for Project Management (APM ) alongside experience managing complex projects from start to finish. You ll know how to coach teams in Agile and Lean practices, identify and deal with potential risks and bring a Project Delivery Capability perspective to the team. A long-term thinker, you ll take ownership of projects, centering client needs and solving their problems within organisational constraints.
Whatever level you join us at, you ll have experience working with Agile methodologies, communicating with stakeholders, and articulating complex requirements clearly.
Training and Development
We re committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We have an exceptional skills community dedicated to supporting you. You ll have a full induction to the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of your role, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.
There ll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring, alongside opportunities to pursue career pathways which cover specialism tracks. We use the Project Delivery Capability framework as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you.
We ll also support you to work towards professional qualifications if you choose, including SAFe certification in Agile, Certificated SAFe for government and APMG (Agile Project Management Practitioner) Change Management. We ll even help you qualify for full membership of the APM (Association for Project Management) or Chartered Project Professional (CHpp ). Depending on your experience and skills, you ll have access to training opportunities and support mechanisms to progress towards APM certification within 12 months of joining the team.
Whatever your professional goals, we ll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role and throughout your career.
Rewards and Benefits
You ll receive a starting salary of £46,741 - £50,246 as a Project Manager dependant on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £4,198.
As a Senior Project Manager £55,523 £59,678, dependent on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £5,128.
- 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Employee Recognition Schemes
- Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel)
- Excellent pension scheme
- Bikes 2 Work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave
At MI6, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our websites:
We re Disability Confident
MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our Offer of Interview (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:
Project Manager
- Ability to use Project Management methodologies. Formal qualifications such as PRINCE2 are not a prerequisite assessed at application form sift.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels and adapt your approach to changing circumstances assessed at application form sift.
- Demonstrate a strong motivation for applying to work for MI6 as a Project Manager.
- A formal qualification in Project Management such as APM or similar.
- Demonstrate knowledge and proficiency in the use of Project Management methodologies, such as agile, Waterfall and PRINCE 2
- Evidence delivering project success, leadership, and management, in a VUCA environment (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity)
- Demonstrate a strong motivation for applying to work for MI6 as a Senior Project Manager
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
- Paper sift you are advised to make full use of the word allowance for each question
- Personal Interview
- Drugs Test
- Vetting Interview
Before You Apply
To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here.
. click apply for full job details