Project and Change Manager

The opportunity 

Are you passionate about driving positive change? At University of the Arts London (UAL), we believe that creativity is the key to addressing global challenges and fostering a more equitable future. Our mission is to nurture and share this creativity, empowering our students and staff to shape a better world. If you are a visionary Project Manager, join our team and help us transform the future of education.

As a Project and Change Manager, you will play a crucial role in our Size and Shape and Academic Capacity and Experience Programmes (ACE). The Size and Shape programme optimises our course offerings and scale, recommending student number growth and changes to our taught courses to meet evolving skill needs. ACE is a suite of university-wide transformation projects, aiming to create an environment of excellence in academic delivery through new operating models, delivery frameworks, and resource allocation tools. 

You will be embedded within a college to support these initiatives while working centrally with the ACE and Size and Shape teams. Your focus will be on implementing changes, ensuring stakeholder engagement, developing detailed plans, and tracking progress.

About you

To be successful in this role, you must have proven experience managing complex change projects in large organisations. You should be skilled in structural change and collaborating with HR teams, with an understanding of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) implications.

Holding a Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE2, APM, or Agile/Scrum, is essential. Knowledge of the Higher Education policy and regulatory environment is desirable. Additionally, excellent stakeholder management and communication skills are crucial for this role.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 10^th September 2024, 23:55.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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