"Project Manager"

About Us

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

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic and 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

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

Desirable criteria

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

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our How we Recruit pages.

Interviews are due to be held w/c 01 September 2025

Grade and Salary: £53,149 - £62,422 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 121166

Close Date: 18-Aug-2025

Contact Person: Rosalind Fuller

Contact Details: rosalind.fuller@kcl.ac.uk