Job Description

Purpose of the role

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.  

Accountabilities

• Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management:  Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

In this role, you will support the day-to-day delivery of a high-profile change programme within the Pensions Team (part of HR’s Reward & Performance function), helping to coordinate activity and governance across multiple workstreams. Working closely with programme leads, workstream leads and pensions SMEs (deep pensions expertise is not required), you will play a key role in maintaining effective project controls and governance processes, ensuring activities remain on track and stakeholders are kept informed. Responsibilities will include maintaining RAID logs, action trackers and decision logs, managing governance calendars, coordinating forums and meetings, preparing meeting materials and reporting, and tracking actions and deliverables through to completion. You will also support the monitoring of risks, issues, dependencies and milestones, helping to maintain programme momentum and facilitate timely escalation where required.

As an Assistant Vice President, you will bring a Project Management or PMO background, applying analytical thinking, organisation and attention to detail within a complex, finance-linked environment. You will engage with stakeholders across HR, Finance and Treasury, supporting effective communication, informed decision-making and issue resolution, while handling sensitive information with discretion. Using AI and technology tools to synthesise information, generate concise updates and improve reporting efficiency, you will help translate evolving requirements into structured plans and deliverables. Success in this role will require the ability to manage multiple priorities, build effective relationships and proactively support the conversion of strategic objectives into actionable plans, milestones and outcomes within a fast-paced, multi-workstream programme environment.

To be successful as a Pensions Change Project Manager – 18 Month Full-Time Contract, you must have experience with:

• Project Management or PMO experience supporting complex, multi-workstream change initiatives within finance-linked environments
• Governance and programme support experience, including maintenance of RAID logs, action tracking, reporting, and integrated project plans
• Stakeholder management experience, working with colleagues across HR, Treasury and Finance within a confidential and regulated environment
• Good analytical, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to convert requirements into structured plans and support programme decision-making
• Experience using AI such as Co-Pilot and technology tools to synthesise information, automate administrative activities, and enhance project delivery

Highly valued experience includes:

• Previous pensions experience
• Experience working with trustees or trustee governance environments

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, stakeholder management, planning and organisation, and digital and technology capabilities, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is an 18-month fixed term contract located within our London office.