Job Description – Interim Project Manager (Catalyst Futures)

Location: Woking / Hybrid (minimum two days on-site) Hours: 35 hours per week Contract: 6-month fixed-term (with potential extension, subject to funding) Salary: £48,000 per annum (FTE) – pro-rata for six months Reports to: Chief Executive Officer Direct reports: None — works through matrix task-groups and secondees

• Purpose of the Role

Catalyst Support is delivering Catalyst Futures – a time-bound transformation programme to integrate services, bolster financial resilience and sharpen impact across Surrey.

The Interim Project Manager will:

• Plan and Coordinate – translate senior-leadership ambition into a detailed, six-month delivery plan with clear milestones, work-streams and risk controls.
• Drive Service-Improvement Projects – steer priority projects to completion, using Lean / service-design methods to improve client experience, access and cost-efficiency.
• Enable Partnerships and Culture Change – maintain strong working relationships with NHS partners, local authorities and VCSE allies, ensuring every activity reflects Catalyst’s ethos of Supporting Wellness Together .
• Key Responsibilities

Primary Deliverables (6-month focus)

Project Planning and Governance

• Produce and own a detailed Catalyst Futures Delivery Plan, KPIs and benefits-tracker for the six-month period.
• Serve as secretariat to the Catalyst Futures Steering Group; issue highlight reports and decision logs.

• Build and run a light-touch Project Management Office (templates, RAID log, timeline).
• Map as-is services, lead redesign workshops and oversee implementation of quick-win improvements.

• Act as day-to-day contact for NHS primary-care networks, SABP, Surrey Heartlands ICS, local authorities and VCSE partners on Catalyst Futures outputs.
• Negotiate short-term KPI variations or data-sharing agreements to support pilots and proofs-of-concept.

• Maintain the programme RAID log, risk register and budget tracker; escalate issues promptly.
• Work with the Finance Manager to monitor spend against the six-month budget envelope and evidence cost-saving / social-value benefits.
• Commission ad-hoc analytics; publish concise dashboards for the Steering Group.

• Model Catalyst values of kindness, integrity and commitment; ensure all project outputs embed trauma-informed, person-centred practice and EDI principles.
• Coordinate staff, volunteer and client engagement sessions (briefings, webinars, consultations).

• • 5 + years managing complex service-improvement or transformation projects in charity, NHS or local-authority settings.
  • Proven track record of delivering projects to time, cost and quality without direct line-management authority.
• Success working with NHS commissioners and providers on partnership contracts or pilots.

• • Mental-health, substance-use or broader VCSE experience.
• Delivery inside an Integrated Care System (ICS).

• • Project-management methodologies (PRINCE2, MSP, Agile).
  • Contract and commissioning processes in health / social-care.
  • Lean, Six Sigma or service-design tools.
• Strong stakeholder-influence skills and high digital literacy (MS 365, Smartsheet/Planner, basic data-viz).

• • Change-management accreditation (Prosci/ADKAR).
• Power BI or similar analytics tools.

• Degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Post-graduate diploma in health, social-care or charity management.

• • Embodies kindness, integrity, commitment.
• Inclusive, trauma-informed; comfortable with ambiguity; delivers pragmatic solutions at pace.

• Coaching or mentoring accreditation.

Short-listed applicants will deliver a 10-minute presentation on accelerating voluntary-sector and NHS collaboration to improve client pathways within a six-month horizon.