Department Planning, Performance & Strategic Change
Salary Starting from £46,485, rising to £55,295
Grade Grade 8
Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term
Placed on Tuesday 14 January 2025
Closing date Tuesday 04 February 2025
Interview date Wednesday 19 February 2025
As a Project Manager within Planning, Performance and Strategic Change (PPSC), you’ll be at the forefront of delivering the University’s Strategy, working on complex change projects that span academic departments and professional services. You’ll have the opportunity to manage projects that enhance the university's future direction, contributing to one or more of the strategic themes: Education, Research, Community, Partnerships or Enablement.
This role is likely to be focused on the strategic Data and Insights (D&I) Project, though project assignments are subject to change as our portfolio responds to the University's latest priorities. The D&I Project is establishing robust data governance, demonstrating the value of enhanced data management and analytics capabilities across campus, and delivering a new central Data & Insight Hub.
You will:
Manage high-priority projects that impact strategic delivery across the University.
Collaborate with diverse teams of professional and academic colleagues to tackle complex challenges.
Develop and strengthen project management capabilities throughout the institution, making a lasting impact on how we deliver success.
Engage with stakeholders at all levels, from senior leadership to project teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
Present your progress and insights to the Project Board and other Executive Boards, ensuring alignment with the University’s strategic goals.
This position is offered on a full time basis, fixed term for 2 years.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have: A passion for managing projects and an ability to inspire and engage others. Proven experience managing complex digital projects with multiple stakeholders. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams. A commitment to continuous improvement and helping the University achieve its ambitious goals. What we can offer you:
A very generous employer contributory pension scheme. Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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, so we 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 constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
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Our ideal candidate will have: A passion for managing projects and an ability to inspire and engage others. Proven experience managing complex digital projects with multiple stakeholders. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams. A commitment to continuous improvement and helping the University achieve its ambitious goals. What we can offer you:
A very generous employer contributory pension scheme. Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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, so we 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 constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
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