ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.

We welcome applications from candidates who meet some but not all of the criteria listed below.

We’re currently looking a Project Manager to join the Innovation in Learning and Assessment Programme team on a full time, two-year fixed term contract basis. This position sits within our Transformation team and will be involved in some of our core workstreams delivering our ILA qualification of the future. The team is primarily based in Glasgow, but we are remote first and open to candidates based across the UK.

 This is a new role and will join ILA at an exciting time, as we scale the team and move into our next phase of the programme, looking ahead to accelerate the delivery of bold changes to the ACCA Qualification.

The Job

 Reporting to one of the Senior ILA Project Managers, on a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

• Project Planning & Execution: Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans aligned with programme goals, defining scope, timelines, and resource allocation, and ensures successful delivery within budget and schedule.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between key project stakeholders, and cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication, managing expectations, and resolving conflicts effectively.
• Risk & Performance Oversight: Identifies potential risks early, implements mitigation strategies, and monitors project performance using KPIs to ensure quality and continuous improvement.

 The Person

 We’re looking for someone who:

• Thinks creatively and with curiosity – you move fast, learning and adapting as you go based on a proven track record of employing a broad and diverse range of project management best practices, methodologies and tools
• Does the right thing and builds trusted relationships within the programme delivery team and with your stakeholders at all levels
• Has recent and relevant experience in successfully delivering projects within the Qualifications / Exams area of ACCA
• Speaks up to challenge constructively, sharing your ideas for a better approach or improvements
• Exemplifies ACCA behaviours and values

Our Benefits

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and so have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include private healthcare, life assurance and income protection as well as a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme.

We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool called Nudge, to our employees.

Our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefit plan to suit your needs, you can choose to add a number of benefits including extra holidays, PMI family cover, cycle to work, Travel and Gym loans and more! You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site and wellbeing centre platform.

We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well-being of all employees. We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.

Interested in this role? Please click Apply to submit your application.