Project Manager

Closing date – 11 July 2022, 5pm. 

The Opportunity:

You will establish and lead the project team comprising of external consultants, client department representatives, Estates and other support group colleagues ensuring that aims and objectives are delivered within agreed parameters, legislation and procedures.  Ensure the brief is translated accurately, developed and delivered by the design. Ensure that furniture, equipment, commissioning and occupation requirements are implemented.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Educated to degree level with chartered professional status in Architecture (RIBA), Surveying (RICS), Project Management (RICS), Engineering (CIBSE / ICE), or Building (CIOB) with high level interpersonal, numeracy, written and computer literacy skills.
• Considerable professional and technical experience in design, construction, procurement and project management,  showing an ongoing commitment to Continuing Professional Development and a demonstrable record of delivering a range of planning and successfully implementing a range of capital development projects.
• Leadership, management and motivational experience and skills to manage the wide ranging and technically skilled stakeholders of the project.  Ability to use initiative to enable progress to be made in complex circumstances. A clean driving licence is desirable.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page  for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role.  If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.  

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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