Project Manager

About the Opportunity

Applications are invited for the post of Project Manager in the Digital Solutions section of the directorate of Digital & Estates Infrastructure & Development.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and effective project management for the life-cycle of projects in your portfolio – procurement to project closure.
• Establish good working relationships with key stakeholders to guide the project delivery, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Colleges/Directorates.
• Maintain and ensure that overall project plans are adhered to and co-ordinate the dependent tasks.
• Show initiative in problem solving and dealing with challenges.
• Build effective working relationships with vendors, and third-party suppliers.
• Maintain project risk registers through effective risk analysis and risk management of work streams.
• Identify training needs (drawn from stakeholder/end user input), facilitate and deliver training across different domains of users to ensure effective workflows and evaluate effectiveness.
• Arrange, facilitate/attend project meetings as required and record the actions and monitor and ensure progress against these actions.
• Analyse and report on the overall progress of projects to management and participate in audits as required.
• Review project delivery methodology with the team to deliver continual improvement to the Directorate and wider University.

About You

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications, experience, and skills:

Qualifications/Training

• Essential: Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject area.
• Desirable: Relevant professional accreditation, a postgraduate degree in a relevant subject, a recognized Project Management qualification.

Experience/Knowledge

• Essential: Experience of administration of a wide range of projects, including large/complex projects, practical experience of managing projects that cross both business and IT work streams, a good understanding of project management tools and techniques, alongside experience of managing and delivering projects to agreed timescales and budgets.
• Desirable: Experience of PRINCE and Agile methodologies, working in the Higher Education Sector, having procured goods or services, along with an understanding of public sector requirements.

Skills/Abilities

• Essential: Evidence of excellent IT and numeracy skills including knowledge of MS Office 365 applications, ability to work effectively both independently and as part of the project team, taking a lead role where appropriate, ability to give support/advice in a professional way to all levels of staff in the project team, wider university and external organizations.
• Desirable: Relevant experience of negotiating with a broad range of suppliers to agree work packages and delivery of project activities, the capability to conduct project evaluations and lessons learned activities, along with the implementation of any agreed-upon changes to project management processes.

General

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. The University has recently achieved a Race Equality Charter Bronze award and is a Disability Confident employer.

Eligibility

The ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh is desirable for this post.

Benefits

• Part-time at 0.6 FTE
• Eligible to the nationally supported USS pension scheme
• Various other employee benefit schemes including childcare and sport facilities

About Company

Digital Solutions and Infrastructure are responsible for providing, developing and maintaining IT facilities and services across the University, supporting staff and students. The University has a good reputation for providing reliable and resilient infrastructure, services, systems, and facilities.