Project Manager

About us:

The Project Manager role sits within the Transformation Office Directorate. The Transformation Office supports the senior leadership of the university in effective strategy execution, delivering a complex set of transformation initiatives and driving sustainable improvements to our core business.

The Project Manager is responsible for managing the successful delivery of projects within the transformation portfolio.

The Project Manager will manage work across entire project lifecycles, including planning, scheduling, risk management, resource allocation, and communication with stakeholders. They are also responsible for monitoring progress and adjusting as needed to keep the project on track.

About the role:

The postholder would be expected to fulfill the following responsibilities:

• To manage and facilitate small project teams, working groups, or similar, coordinating, delegating and supervising activity in furtherance of project aims.
• Working with senior colleagues and stakeholders to create and maintain project documentation, including project scoping documents, business cases, detailed project plans, risk registers, action logs, and reporting.
• To attend and report at relevant project governance forums as appropriate, proactively translating meeting outcomes into actions.
• To proactively identify, monitor, undertake, or refer, relevant actions to progress different aspects of project delivery.
• Manage the budget/resources of the project within defined parameters, escalating issues and actions to ensure that the project stays on track.
• Identifying and managing risks to the delivery, including developing contingency plans to mitigate potential issues.
• Communicating with stakeholders, including team members, clients, and other stakeholders, to ensure that everyone is informed about the progress of the project.
• Working with clients or other stakeholders to define and meet their needs and expectations, negotiating desired outcomes as and where appropriate
• Overall, the Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that project deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

This is a hybrid working role where the role holder will spend 2 days of their working week on campus and 3 days working remotely. 

This is a full time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

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

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable skills and experience of project management tools and techniques including scoping, business case development, planning, controls & reporting, risk management, benefits management.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a project management or delivery focussed role in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering projects with tangible outcomes and benefits.
• Strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesise and interpret information and communicate effectively to a variety of audiences
• Experience of engaging and motivating others, with an ability to liaise effectively with colleagues from different professional backgrounds
• Adaptability and flexibility to work across multiple areas in a complex and fast-paced environment, comfortable with ambiguity and complexity.
• Excellent IT skills to support project delivery eg MS Office suite, Sharepoint and MS Teams, PowerBI, project management, presentation software.

Desirable criteria

• A recognised project management or change management qualification eg Prince2, PROSCI
• Experience of process review and improvement methods eg Lean Six Sigma
• Knowledge and understanding of the UK Higher Education sector

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