Research Project Manager

Job description:

Working Pattern: Full-time, (35 hours per week)

Data Connect is seeking a talented Research Project Manager to join our team. We are a strategically vital service within Research IT services, empowering researchers with streamlined access to crucial health and social care data, directly contributing to research that enhances lives.

In this role, you'll be instrumental in ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of research projects. You'll work closely with the Senior Research Project Manager and Data Technical Lead, serving as a key point of contact for Principal Investigators and lead researchers, guiding projects from inception to completion. Your proactive approach will be essential in identifying and resolving obstacles, optimising team efficiency throughout the project lifecycle.

Your core responsibilities will include understanding and translating user needs into actionable project requirements, ensuring alignment with research goals, and collaborating with researchers to define project workflows. You will manage project scope, timelines, and communication, ensuring clear information flow among team members and stakeholders. As Well as maintaining and optimizing JIRA board workflows, and implementing agile methodologies, including sprints, stand-ups, and retrospectives. You will also contribute to service design improvements and collaborate with the Data Management team to oversee data collection and analysis, assisting in resolving workstream obstacles.

You'll be part of a collaborative team, where open communication, proactive problem-solving, and commitment to delivering high-quality results are essential. If you're ready to contribute to impactful research and thrive in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply!

What We Offer

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

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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