Project Manager
Employer: Everyday Plastic
Location: Remote (with quarterly in-person team meetings)
Temporary: 12-month rolling contract
Working hours: 3 days per week
Salary: £35,000 pro rata
Closing date: 7pm, Friday 3 July 2026
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Annual salary: £35,000 pro rata
Contract type: 3 days per week / 12-month rolling contract
Application deadline: 7pm, Friday 3 July 2026
Interviews: w/c 13 July 2026
Start date: 7 September 2026 or before
Location: Remote (with quarterly in-person team meetings)
About the role
The Project Manager plays a central role in helping Everyday Plastic and The Big Plastic Count deliver ambitious, collaborative and community-led work.
Working closely with a small and ambitious team, you will help keep projects moving across campaigns, partnerships, research, events, communications and public engagement. You’ll coordinate timelines, budgets, workflows and delivery across multiple strands of work, helping ensure projects are organised, inclusive, impactful and delivered effectively.
You’ll work closely with the Everyday Plastic team, external delivery partners, community advisory groups, researchers, freelancers, suppliers and collaborators, helping create strong systems and ways of working across the organisation.
You’ll also support clear reporting, project accountability and day-to-day operational management, helping identify risks, improve processes and ensure projects remain on track and well-supported as we grow.
We’re looking for someone who is highly organised, proactive and confident managing complex projects with care and attention to detail. You should feel comfortable balancing day-to-day coordination with longer-term planning, problem-solving and improving systems within a small and agile team.
This is an adaptable role, and we’ll encourage you to shape and develop it over time.
Main areas of responsibility:
Project planning and delivery
Develop, maintain and manage a detailed project plan across all workstreams for The Big Plastic Count
Ensure all strands (community research, campaign, communications, web development, partnerships, policy, schools) are aligned and progressing
Track milestones, deadlines and responsibilities across the project
Identify risks to delivery and proactively resolve or escalate them
Ensure the project meets agreed objectives, timelines and expectations
Ensure compliance where needed, e.g. safeguarding, legal
Project processes and ways of working
Embed clear project processes, tools and documentation
Set up and run regular project meetings, ensuring they are focused and effective
Maintain clarity on roles, responsibilities and decision-making
Improve team workflows and coordination over time
Team coordination and support
Coordinate activity across the team to ensure alignment and collaboration
Support team members to manage workload and priorities
Identify skills or resource gaps and flag to Directors
Contract management
Lead or support recruitment of freelancers
Help to define scopes of work, deliverables, and performance expectations
Manage freelancers, agencies and other external suppliers (e.g. designers, developers) where required.
Budget and resource management
Oversee and regularly track the project budget
Ensure accurate financial tracking and reporting (e.g. via Xero)
Work with the Directors to monitor spend and allocation
Support efficient use of resources across the project
Reporting and communication
Provide clear, timely updates on project progress to the team
Support reporting to funders, partners and trustees
Ensure key information is shared across the project in a consistent way
Evaluation and learning
Build in structured reflection points and post-project evaluation
Capture lessons learned and feed them into future work
Ensure information is captured for impact reporting
Person Specification
A high degree of self-motivation, drive, resilience and initiative
Experience in project coordination and/or management, ideally within a nonprofit or NGO
Excellent time management and organisational skills, with a good eye for detail.
Ability to keep calm under pressure
A commitment to environmental and social justice, ensuring that The Big Plastic Count is inclusive and community-led
Good emotional intelligence and desire to create an inclusive team culture
A willingness to adapt, be flexible, pitch in and be hands-on within our small and agile team
Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including community groups, funders, and advocacy partners.
A proactive approach to work with the confidence to generate ideas and strategies
Creativity and the ability to think outside the box when it comes to campaign tactics
Composure under pressure and able to work to deadlines
Benefits include:
5% pension contribution
Contribution to relevant training
25 days holiday pro-rata + bank holidays
Additional 2-week office closures in August and December/January
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