Project Administrator (Regional Productivity Forum)

We are seeking to appoint a Project Administrator to support The Productivity Institute’s Regional Productivity Forum in Yorkshire, Humber & the North-East, based at Sheffield University Management School (SUMS).

The Productivity Institute brings together world-leading and UK experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, working directly with policymakers and businesses to better understand, measure, and enable improvements in productivity across the whole of the UK, with the aim to improve living standard and well-being. 

The position of Project Administrator is designed to support the Productivity Institute’s regional research and business engagement programme and support the RPF Lead in the management, organisation and governance of the RPF. The role will include helping to coordinate the activities of the regional network, including organising and supporting Forum meetings and communicating with Forum members. The role will also involve report writing, budget management, and impact and knowledge exchange planning and support. 

You will have excellent interpersonal skills, IT skills, have previous relevant work experience in managing large complex projects and be able to work as part of a team. Further details about the specific roles and responsibilities of this post can be found in the About the Job section later in this document.

The role is offered as a fixed term contract ending on 31^st August 2025.

Sheffield University Management School is a vibrant, internationally diverse community of over 200 academic and professional services colleagues. We are a school with a world-class research reputation and ambition. As such, the Management School has cutting-edge research at the heart of its activities and as the base of its strategic focus.

We are proud to deliver intellectually rigorous cutting-edge research, and excellent teaching and learning in a stimulating, innovative environment. Through the distinctiveness of our graduates, excellence of our staff and network of international partners, we seek to inform the practice of socially responsible management and to make a positive difference to our global community.

We sustain a research-intensive environment that creates, advances and disseminates knowledge with respect to management inquiry, for the benefit of students, private and public sector organisations and society in general. 

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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