Project Manager (ENG03108)

Location: South Kensington

Starting date: Full-time and fixed-term until 31 March 2025

Job Summary

We are seeking a Project Manager to provide strategic, scientific, outreach and administrative support for the UKRI project “AI for Net Zero”. The interdisciplinary study will deliver fundamental scientific machine learning methods and practical digital twins to optimise engineering systems (wind turbines, road vehicles, hydrogen-based engines) for accelerating the Net Zero emission transition.

The study is coordinated by Imperial College London and involves a consortium of leading UK universities as well as policy agencies and industrial partners and is highly interdisciplinary. The person appointed to this post will have a key role in helping the consortium deliver the research programme, help the Aeronautics Investigators with administrative load, and to ensure that the research activities bring together the various disciplines and institutions involved in the consortium to address the research goals and policy needs.

Duties and responsibilities

• Project Management and administration
• Communication and Events including maintenance and development of the consortium website and social media accounts
• Finance and Reporting including managing the overall project budget for the consortium as well as the day-to-day financial management of the budget at Imperial and planning and coordinating the completion and submission of annual reports to funders.

Essential requirements

Experience of:

• Project management including managing project budgets.
• Communications and events management
• Supporting scientific / engineering reports and presentations.

For a full list of duties, responsibilities and person specification please see the job description.

Further Information

This post is a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2025

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Dr George Rigas g.rigas@imperial.ac.uk

For technical issues when applying online please email recruitment@imperial.ac.uk

For queries regarding the recruitment process please contact Lisa Kelly: l.kelly@imperial.ac.uk

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/ 

Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We are an Athena SWAN Silver award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people.

Closing date: 15^th May 2024

To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference ENG03108

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