Equality Charter Project Manager

University of Southampton - Reward, Recognition & Inclusion

Location: Southampton

Salary: £36,636 to £44,746 per annum

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 22nd August 2025

Closes: 12th September 2025

Job Ref: 3190725DD

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, dynamic Project Manager to manage and coordinate the successful delivery of our equality charters. The role will ensure stakeholder engagement throughout the development, monitoring and implementation of action plans and will coordinate self-assessments which evaluate the experiences of our university community. Our equality charters are managed as university wide, long-term projects.

You will be a welcomed member of our Reward, Recognition and Inclusion Team, working in partnership with key stakeholders from across the University. Leading the planning and delivery of specified, complex projects, including collaborative action planning, monitoring, analysis and reporting and ensuring that risks and issues are managed effectively. A primary focus will be to ensure that the required charter outputs are produced to a high standard.

About you

You will have excellent communication skills, the ability to plan and manage your own workload and an interest for working within an organisation passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion. You will be a positive and proactive problem solver and able to manage conflicting priorities. You will be a strong team player and dynamic and agile in your approach. Your ability to engage with stakeholders and maintain relationships across the projects will be essential. You will have a skill level equivalent to achievement of HND, Degree, NVQ4 or basic professional qualification. Proven project management skills to include knowledge and experience of project management techniques and tools. A PRINCE2 Practitioner or an alternative project management qualification is desirable but not essential.

What we can offer you

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. We offer some fantastic benefits including: A total of 44 days leave per year (comprising of annual leave, bank holidays and University Closure days), Options for flexible working, excellent family leave arrangements (including maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and carers leave), A wide variety of on and off-campus arts and culture facilities, Access to a range of staff discounts and offers at local shops, restaurants and service providers, including the cycle to work scheme. All our benefits can be viewed here: Benefits explained | Human Resources | University of Southampton.

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. Committed to supporting our staff and students, we give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly and those who have taken a career break.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Becky O’Selmo, Equality Programme Manager via email R.E.Oselmo@soton.ac.uk. Interviews will be held on the 2nd and 3rd October 2025.