Funded Project Mobilisation & Service Management

You have secured funding. Now the work needs to become a well-run, accountable, beneficiary-centred service. I can set it up, manage it, or support the whole journey from award to delivery.

When this helps

  • You need to recruit, establish processes and launch a newly funded service.
  • Your project needs an experienced manager for a few days each month.
  • You want continuity between setup and ongoing delivery.

How I work with you

Mobilisation and management are available separately, but the combined engagement is often the most useful. We agree responsibilities and a realistic allocation across each phase, with clear reporting to your charity and funder.

Options & typical fees

Commission the support you need. We agree the scope, deliverables and fee before work begins.

Mobilisation followed by ongoing management

£350 or £400 per day

A continuous engagement: I establish the service and then manage its delivery.

  • A single agreed remit across the two phases
  • Capacity matched to setup and delivery needs
  • Clear reporting, review points and handover

Funded project mobilisation

£350 or £400 per day

Move from an approved grant to a delivery-ready project.

  • Review of the application, grant agreement and budget; implementation plan
  • Recruitment, job descriptions, onboarding and responsibilities
  • Funder and partner relationships; referral and eligibility processes
  • Operating documents and safeguarding / escalation routes
  • Budget and expenditure systems; outputs, outcomes and evidence collection
  • Beneficiary involvement, consent and record-keeping arrangements
  • Risk, issue and decision logs; reporting templates and contact schedule

Interim project and service management

£350 or £400 per day

Ongoing, part-time oversight of funded delivery.

  • Staff, contractor, volunteer and partner coordination; line management where agreed
  • Referrals, capacity, workloads and accessible delivery
  • Budgets, forecasts, receipts, expenditure records and finance-team liaison
  • Funder contact, reporting and change approvals
  • Outputs, outcomes, evidence quality and beneficiary feedback
  • Timetables, milestones, risks and safeguarding escalation
  • CEO, trustee or steering-group reporting
  • Sustainability, continuation planning and eventual handover or planned closure

Project-manager advisory support

£60 per hour · two-hour minimum

A defined meeting, review or post-handover discussion.

  • Focused delivery-planning advice or review
  • Agreed actions for an existing project manager

Timescale & next steps

An agreed setup phase followed, where needed, by ongoing part-time management. Monthly day allocations are agreed explicitly.

Tell me what you need, your timetable and any budget you are working within. I’ll confirm availability and propose a clear scope and fee.

Complexity, not simply the number of sites, determines the day rate. Your charity retains formal accounting, governance, employer and specialist responsibilities. We agree authority and escalation routes, and appropriate contractual arrangements, before work starts.

Client perspectives

What it’s like to work together

“From the initial call with Sophie, I felt that she really cared about our cause, and made the process seamless. There were different options for us to choose in terms of levels of support (no pressure and our budget was taken into consideration).”
Sarah Land
Co-Founder, Peeps
“Sophie is absolutely superb to work with. She brings depth of experience which is manifested in astute insights, together with an upbeat and highly collaborative manner and top class writing skills. We are very lucky to have her working with our charity.”
Duncan Grant
Partnerships & Development Director, Future First

Let’s talk about what would help.

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