People Project Manager Governance

What if your next role wasn't about working within an established assurance environment, but helping to build and strengthen one?

Sizewell C is one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects. As our organisation develops, so too must the governance, controls and assurance surrounding how we operate.

We're looking for an experienced People Governance & Assurance Manager

to work across our People function, helping us ensure that the frameworks and controls we have in place don't simply exist on paper, but are understood, evidenced and operating effectively in practice.

This isn't a conventional HR role. And it isn't a conventional Project Manager position.

We're particularly interested in people who have operated within highly regulated, controlled or scrutinised environments and who understand what good governance, compliance, control and assurance really look like.

People Governance & Assurance Manager

Location: London/ Ipswich/ Suffolk

Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Closing date: Tuesday 24th November 2026

What’s in It for You

- Salary: Circa £75,000 depending on experience

- Bonus: 5% annual incentive

- Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution

- Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

The opportunity

Working closely with colleagues across Governance, Compliance and the wider People function, you'll provide evidence-based assurance that our key controls and processes are robust and working as intended.

You'll conduct structured self-assessments ahead of more formal audit activity, examining processes against established frameworks, identifying what evidence should exist, testing that evidence and assessing whether controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.

Where gaps exist, you won't simply report them. You'll help translate findings into practical improvements, establish remediation plans, monitor progress and work constructively with colleagues to ensure actions are delivered.

Alongside our ongoing assurance programme, you'll also take ownership of selected governance and control-related projects across the People function, such as business continuity and crisis management arrangements, and support the implementation of new processes where regulatory or compliance requirements demand them.

What you'll be doing

You'll have a broad remit, including:

- Designing and delivering a structured programme of self-assessment and assurance activity across key People processes.

- Assessing processes against established governance, compliance and control frameworks.

- Determining appropriate evidence requirements and testing whether controls are operating effectively in practice.

- Sampling evidence, identifying control gaps and documenting clear, defensible conclusions.

- Translating assurance findings into practical recommendations and remediation actions.

- Tracking agreed actions through to completion and escalating material or unresolved issues appropriately.

- Working closely with Governance, Compliance, Risk, Audit and Assurance colleagues to ensure that People processes stand up to internal and external scrutiny.

- Supporting assurance and audit readiness across areas that may include employment compliance, right-to-work controls, risk management and wider People governance.

- Owning specific governance and control-related projects, including the implementation and ongoing review of business continuity arrangements.

- Producing concise, high-quality papers, briefings and presentations for senior stakeholders and wider audiences.

- Helping colleagues understand their responsibilities through clear guidance, communication and, where appropriate, training.

- Building assurance into the way we work, so that controls are sustainable and subject to continuous review and improvement.

What we're looking for

This is not a traditional HR position.

Your experience might have been gained in financial services, pharmaceuticals, energy, nuclear, defence, major infrastructure or another highly regulated environment where control, evidence and regulatory scrutiny are part of everyday business.

What matters is that you can demonstrate where you have personally operated within governance, compliance, controls or assurance.

You'll need to demonstrate:

- Strong practical experience within assurance, controls, governance and/or compliance in a regulated or highly controlled environment.

- Clear examples of where you have personally established, assessed or improved governance and control arrangements.

- The ability to assess whether controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively, using credible evidence rather than assumption.

- Experience identifying weaknesses and translating findings into proportionate remediation and improvement.

- Strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to evidence, documentation and follow-through.

- The ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and ensure actions are delivered.

- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and the judgement to know when an issue requires recommendation, remediation or escalation.

- The ability to turn complex findings into concise, accessible papers, briefings and presentations for different audiences.

- A collaborative approach. You'll apply scrutiny and rigour, but do so in a way that helps busy colleagues improve rather than simply adding another layer of process.

You do not need to be an HR specialist. What is more important is strong assurance capability, professional judgement and the ability to apply that expertise within the People environment.

It would be particularly useful if you have

- Experience of formal control testing, self-assessment or audit-readiness programmes.

- Experience working alongside Internal Audit, Risk or independent Assurance teams.

- Exposure to shareholder, regulatory or industry requirements and the evidence needed to demonstrate effective compliance.

- Experience in nuclear, infrastructure, energy or another heavily regulated industry.

- Experience delivering governance or control improvement projects.

- Experience producing material for Executive, Committee or other senior governance forums.

What success will look like

Within your first year, you'll have helped us create a structured and sustainable People assurance approach.

Key People controls will have been assessed against clear evidence requirements. Gaps will be understood, remediation will be underway or complete, and we will have greater confidence that our governance and compliance arrangements operate effectively in practice.

Most importantly, you'll help create an environment where assurance isn't something we prepare for just before an audit. It becomes part of how we work, evidence, review and continuously improve our controls.

Why Join Us?

- Be part of one of the most important low-carbon energy projects in the UK.

- Work in a mission-driven environment that values innovation, integrity, and long-term sustainability.

- Comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career development.

- Flexible and hybrid working options.

Behavioural Competences

Humility

- Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences

- Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise

Positivity

- Positively challenge poor quality and performance

- Identify solutions at the lowest possible level

- Encourage tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward

Respect

- Value the rules and environment in which we operate

- Give and receive feedback with respect

- Embrace and engage with new people and ideas

Solidarity

- One team, working closely together and helping each other

- Empowered teams always looking forward.

- Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes

Clarity

- Communicate clearly and consistently

- Promote collaboration and team alignment

- Clearer and faster decision making

- Drive simplification at all levels

If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today.

When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.

At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.