Project Manager (Rare Diseases)

Salary: Full time salary of £36,310 to £45,413 with potential to progress to £48,149 once in post

Hours: Part time – 0.5FTE – 18.75 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract up to February 2028

Job summary

A number of high-value projects and programmes have been awarded and Birmingham is taking a national leadership role in driving transformative health research and clinical innovation, including in the LifeArc Centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials - https://rarediseasetrials.org.uk/. The project director is Professor Timothy Barratt (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cancer-genomic/barrett-timothy), Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health and Director of the Centre for Rare Disease Studies. This centre aims to boost the capacity and efficiency of rare disease trials across the UK – including facilitating equitable recruitment, streamlining administrative hurdles and offering a ‘one-stop shop’ for trial design and support. The post holder will work on their own initiative and exercise a high level of judgement, skill and understanding to conceive, develop and implement long-term improvements to service delivery and effective ways of working within their areas of responsibility.

Main Duties

• Responsible for the delivery of one or more projects or for contributing to larger University projects, through the provision of significant and high-level project management support. This may include some or all of the following:
  • developing project plans, identifying (as appropriate) key performance indicators and milestones 
  • reviewing and auditing progress on projects to identify and act on improvements to effectiveness, efficiency and delivery 
• Coordinate the organisation of conferences/ meetings/ workshops/ dissemination events if required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Qualified to Degree level or equivalent plus practical managerial experience or significant relevant experience demonstrated through increasingly more demanding roles evidencing the experience necessary for this role
• Knowledge of factors impacting the Higher Education Institution sector, plus an understanding of the interplay between industry, academia, government, and administration.
• Proven track record of successful project management, potentially using one or more project management tools such as Prince2
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly, and to produce and analyse information and data.
• Excellent people-management skills desirable
• Excellent budgetary management skills and experience
• Highly proficient IT skills, including the MS Office and website editing software. You should be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to deal confidently with a range of internal and external stakeholders/contacts
• Excellent organisational and multi-tasking skills with a methodical approach to work and the ability to prioritise workloads in order to meet deadlines
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

We welcome informal enquires, which can be made to Laura Wyatt (l.a.wyatt@bham.ac.uk).

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