Strategic Project Manager

About Us

This role sits within the Faculty Education Services in Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at our London Bridge campus.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the migration of an in-house web application tool to our enterprise-wide university IT systems. This role is pivotal in ensuring the seamless transfer of record data and other information while maintaining data protection and system security compliance.

While this position involves strategic oversight, the primary focus is on the operational delivery of the project. The successful candidate will be responsible for the hands-on management and execution of the migration process, ensuring all objectives are met within the specified timeframe.

The role holder will ensure that necessary functionality can be supported across existing systems, facilitating the seamless transfer of record data and other information and be cognisant of data protection and system security compliance.

The role holder is expected to work collaboratively, coordinating with various stakeholders both within the faculty and the central university to ensure the project is delivered on time and that it provides the expected operational benefits.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 12 months.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Ability to identify and manage competing priorities, whilst considering the needs of stakeholders  
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and confidently  
• Proven experience delivering database migration or software/ digital platform implementations to time; ideally within a higher education or health setting. 
• Recognised project management certification (such as APM qualification or similar) 
• Effective stakeholder engagement experience, with the ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
• Excellent demonstrable ability to understand customer needs and user experience (UX)
• Knowledge and understanding of software lifecycles planning service improvement, process review

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing and delivering web data-driven dynamic solutions: integration of M365 Products including PowerApps, Power Automate, SharePoint Online, PowerBI etc

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