Project Manager - Emergency Communications (Part Time)

Work at the heart of a high-profile emergency communications project, harnessing expertise from across our organisation.

About the role

At the University of Bath, we are a thriving community of students, staff and visitors based across our Claverton campus, in the city and at satellite facilities across the region. 

Everyone has the right to feel safe, and we have a wide range of digital and physical systems to protect our community in the event of a major incident. We now have plans to enhance this even further, to help every member of our community stay safe with the right information at the right time.

We are now seeking an outstanding part time project management professional to help realise this goal. Your tenacity, expertise and experience will inform and enable a highly skilled project team to develop effective solutions to a complex set of Emergency Communications requirements. You’ll establish accountability and embed ownership to drive a diverse portfolio of plans through to successful delivery within a 12-month timeframe.

Your role will be focused on project success, involving:

• Identifying key deliverables and planning critical paths to their achievement.
• Rapidly build good working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Understanding issues and risks and working with a diverse project team on digital and physical infrastructure solutions.
• Embedding a user-centric approach while maintaining an awareness of the detailed technical nature of delivery.
• Defining success metrics, tracking delivery and reporting on outcomes.

About you

If you are a project manager who enjoys working at pace with a range of stakeholders on creative problem solving and technical delivery, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Tenacity, personal drive and desire to achieve results
• Experience of managing projects to deliver objectives within a large and complex organisation
• Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating emergency communication systems
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to achieve results for multiple, simultaneous workstreams with competing demands
• Ability to work to strict deadlines and adapt quickly to exploit opportunities within a dynamic organisational environment

Further information

The role is available on a part time (0.4FTE / 2 days per week) fixed term basis for 12 months. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Ben Harris, Head of Internal Communications, at bbh21@bath.ac.uk. However, please ensure your application is submitted via our website. We are not able to accept CVs or applications via email. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

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