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.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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.