Project Manager & Operations (Maternity Cover)

We're on the hunt for an amazing Project Manager and Operations superstar to join our creative team during a maternity cover period. You'll help us create positive change for our clients and play a key role in supporting impact-driven initiatives.

🕐 Role Type: Part-time (34 hours / 4 days per week), 12-month Maternity Cover

📍 Location: Remote

💷 Salary: £32k–£35K pro-rata (based on experience)

Who We Are

Driftime® is a mission-driven creative partner, helping progressive brands, established companies, and sustainable initiatives achieve long-term impact through design and digital empowerment. We position ourselves as the guide to our clients hero, helping them achieve long-term success through creative strategy, brand, storytelling, digital design, and development.

We are the only design and impact agency working exclusively with progressive brands in the social and environmental impact space, holding a track record of measurable change. We sacrifice old agency models built around profit and growth to truly empower our client partners, enabling us to scale our methods for impact first.

Our Achievements

• Empowered over 300 visionary businesses to transform critical moments into breakthrough opportunities
• Top Creative Company as voted by It's Nice That & If You Could Jobs
• Shortlisted Best Small Agency to Work For by UK Company Culture Awards
• Awarded Remote Team of the Year by UK Company Culture Awards
• B Corp certified
• 1% for the Planet Business Member
• Co-founder of Design Declares
• Living Wage employer

🧑‍💻 Website

Driftime® Media – A Design and Impact Agency

👪 Impact Report (2024)

Impact Report 2024 | Driftime® – A Design & Impact Agency

Our Values

We exist to empower everyone to create together. For us, that means encouraging and enabling creative expression, collaboration and experimentation. We are a mission-driven team that lives and breathes our core values...

Who You Are

You'll be joining a team on a mission to empower people, planet, and profit-driven outcomes. You love solving complex challenges related to social, environmental, and economic standards and are exceptionally organised, keeping on top of many tasks and projects, ensuring everything is followed through to completion. You're great with people and are a clear and confident communicator.

Since we're a small, nimble team, you'll need to be comfortable wearing many hats. If you're excited to help out and eager to dive into different parts of what we do and represent, then this role is perfect for you!

What You'll Do

• Contribute to a friendly, collaborative culture and advocate for positive progression
• Bring process and organisation to the forefront of team-wide decision making
• Create and maintain internal processes that are functional, flexible, and accessible
• Work with partners and teams directly to ensure consistent organisation and management
• Assist staff and directors with general PA tasks and calendar management
• Work closely with internal and external teams across multiple projects
• Establish and improve internal processes from first-contact to delivery
• Challenge conventions to deliver new impact solutions for people, planet, and profit
• Take meeting minutes and ensure follow-up on actions
• Support with team events and bookings
• Provide ad-hoc operational support

What You'll Need

• Exceptional organisational skills! We care less about your CV and more about your demonstrated ability with process and efficiency
• Expert-level knowledge of Notion with the ability to inform better processes, organisation, and feature optimisation (this is crucial!)
• Strong sense of empathy for client partners, consumers, and the creative team
• Excellent problem-solving ability, even with limited information
• A passion for building impact-driven solutions
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain decisions clearly
• An active, curious mindset that continually pushes convention
• Ideally 3 years' experience working in a Creative Agency and managing project dashboards

What Would be Nice

• A naturally organised approach to work and systems
• High IT literacy with a willingness to learn new systems quickly
• Previous Project and Account Management experience
• Understanding of the design world and its potential impact on ethical business

Benefits & Perks

• 100% Distributed team - work remotely and flexibly (within UK timezone-friendly hours)
• Competitive Salary
• Complete Autonomy - choose when, where, and how to work
• Unlimited Paid Holiday (after 3-month probation period)*
• Sustainable Pension Plan through Penfold*
• Annual Stipends and Team Retreat*
• These perks will be available if this position transitions into a permanent role after the 12-month contract

The Small Print

This role is a 12-month contract. The proposed salary will be calculated on a pro-rata (40 hour) basis, with 34 hours a week over 4 days. There's a high chance of a permanent position after the contract ends, depending on business needs and performance, but we can't promise anything right now.

• Applicants must have the right to work within the UK
• Recruiters will not be considered
• Due to the volume of applications, we may not respond to unsuccessful candidates during the initial phase

To Apply

Click Apply at the top right hand corner for instructions on how to send your CV, a little bit about yourself, and why you're interested in Driftime and this position specifically. We'll be in touch from there to continue the conversation!

Driftime is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.