Project Manager - LifeArc

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated individual to join our vibrant, multidisciplinary rare disease research team. The Project Manager will provide project management expertise to ensure the successful, strategic development of high-quality rare disease research. This role provides an opportunity to work in partnership with academic and clinical colleagues, professional support teams, community groups, policy makers, and industrial collaborators. In collaboration with senior colleagues, you will help develop, manage, monitor, and report on the implementation of strategic projects within a diverse portfolio across a range of rare diseases. You will provide support for a collaborative research environment that fosters a culture of trust and mutual respect. The role requires excellent interpersonal skills alongside scientific and technical understanding relevant for rare diseases.

Although individually rare, which means affecting less than 1 in 2,000 people, all rare diseases together affect approximately 475 million people globally, with more than 110,000 people affected by rare diseases across Northern Ireland. Recent rare disease initiatives by our team include the development of an online support tool for carers of people living with a rare disease, appraisals of the impact of socioeconomic factors, novel approaches for molecular diagnostics, building digital infrastructure to support diagnosis and care pathways, and the recently funded £12 million LifeArc Centre for the Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials (RD-TAP).

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:

• A University Degree or equivalent Or Substantial relevant Project Management experience and a professional project management qualification at practitioner level.
• Substantial relevant experience that will demonstrate:
  • Ability to project manage a complex project from inception to completion.
  • Planning and delivering projects on time and within budget. Stakeholder/partner management and programme reporting.
  • Leading multi-disciplinary teams and managing people.
  • Using formal project management techniques to deliver successful projects.
  • Evidence of managing, forecasting, re-profiling and controlling budgets and resources and an understanding of financial management procedures.
  • Evidence of good negotiation and influencing skills.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.

This post is available until 31^st August 2029. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.

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