Senior Project Manager

Join ZSL during its landmark 200th anniversary and help shape the future of its world-renowned conservation zoos and estate. 

As a Senior Project Manager within the Estates team, you will be at the heart of delivering transformative projects that enhance our spaces for wildlife, visitors, and conservation impact. Acting as a champion of best-practice project management, you will build strong partnerships with stakeholders and drive the successful delivery of ambitious, high-profile initiatives. 

From early concept and feasibility through to design, procurement, construction, and final handover, you will lead the full lifecycle of medium to large-scale projects. With a focus on safety, sustainability, and quality, you will ensure every project is delivered to the highest standards, carefully managing programme, cost, risk, and compliance along the way.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to ZSL’s next chapter, leaving a lasting legacy as the organisation enters its third century. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Act as client‑side Project Manager on a variety of capital projects (ranging in value from £250k to £5m) providing strong leadership to internal teams, external consultants, contractors, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Stakeholder and Contractor Management: Lead and support contractor/consultant procurement, contract selection and administration (typically JCT), tender reviews, and performance management.
• Budget Management: Manage project budgets in collaboration with Head of Capital Projects and Finance. Including cash-flow forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
• Health and Safety: Ensure full compliance with statutory health and safety requirements and best practice, including on‑site inspections and safe working practices.