Project Manager - United Kingdom
Job description
Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months, 36.5 hours per week.
Are you a Project Manager with extensive experience in shaping and leading new projects and teams?
WMG is recruiting a Project Manager to support delivery of projects across a range of disciplines.
You will have significant industry project management experience, ideally with relevant technical experience, and be a confident and articulate communicator, as the role provides opportunities to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, as well as providing an engaging dynamic working environment as part of our wider project team. You will have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that can be applied to multidisciplinary projects. The ideal candidate will be a technically competent, experienced project management professional and have strong people skills.
In return, you will have the opportunity to work in a cutting-edge research environment alongside academic and professional community colleagues within the campus of one of the UK’s leading universities.
The salary package on offer includes a great range of benefits which include a generous pension scheme, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities. Additional benefits include an Electric Car Salary Sacrifice and Cycle to work scheme. You will play a major part in delivering cutting edge research.
At WMG we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. We currently hold the Athena SWAN Silver Award, and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative that recognizes the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression, and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities including a generous maternity; paternity; adoption; parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Interview Date: TBC
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE:
This role will provide operational management of a number collaborative research and development projects to ensure they are delivered effectively and delivered using the prescribed processes. The role is part of the wider Project Management Office (PMO) which enables WMG to have the flexibility to deploy skilled experienced project management professionals across a range of projects.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Management.
- Provide the operational management of the project(s) to ensure that the project objectives are achieved, the project team communicates its findings and operates within budget and resource constraints, including the provision of monitoring and reporting of activities to internal stakeholders and external bodies and to ensure the project’s overall successful delivery.
- Coordinating with stakeholders to ensure programme delivery efficiency and effectiveness will also entail:
a. All documentation including initiation documents, stage & detailed plans, product descriptions, timing, dependencies, and responsibilities is complete, always current, and available.
b. Updates to Project Tracking Documents at intervals as defined in Project Management Organisation cadence and production of quarterly project reports for funding bodies.
c. Tracking, review and reporting/escalation of project risks and liaison with risk owners to mitigate.
d. Co-ordinating Intellectual Property Protection, ensuring collaboration and non-disclosure agreements are in place with all consortium partners and suppliers.
e. Develop and maintain effective communications and working relationships with collaborators, partners and staff on the project team and stakeholders.
f. To ensure all projects follow the WMG Project Management methodology.
Delivery & Budget Management.
- Providing the Principal Investigator and Finance department with current financial status and forecasts for the projects with recommendations for corrective action where required. Regular monitoring of the budget to facilitate planning and decision-making.
- Providing financial reporting to Senior Management; Project Board; Advisory Group and/or Steering Committee in terms of spend, commitment and income against agreed financial targets.
- Research delivery, quality, and compliance:
a. Ensuring that research is conducted rigorously, and results are disseminated according to established procedures.
b. Ensure research team has the administrative support required to enable project delivery.
c. Work with members of the research team to identify, plan and implement funded research projects in line with funder requirements.
d. Liaising with post-doctoral staff and PhD students working on the research projects, including day-to-day supervision where appropriate.
People and Team.
- Coordinating recruitment to any vacancies that arise (in liaison with HR as needed).
- Project Communication Strategy:
a. Coordinate and manage project events (e.g., project meetings, conferences, seminars, and the final project conference), ensuring that all schedules, practical arrangements, papers, and minutes are produced, where required attending and following up on action points.
b. Establishment and management of the project website.
Policy and Process.
- Supporting new proposals under development, including bids for research funding from government, EU, and industrial sources. Liaising with potential partners, compiling information, and contributing to proposals.
- Support development and implementation of project management strategies to manage the activities of the project.
- Ensuring that projects meet governance/compliance requirements (e.g., ethics, personal data including GDPR, timesheets, reporting)
- Work with the project management organisation where required to develop or validate project management processes.
Administrative Duties.
- To work flexibly and respond positively to changing business and departmental needs and to carry out any other duties within the scope and nature and grade of the post.
- Maintain the resource and project tracker associated with the portfolio of any relevant research team(s).
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the WMG department, please visit the departmental website.
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The University of Warwick provides an inclusive working and learning environment, recognising and respecting every individual’s differences. We welcome applications from individuals who identify with any of the protected characteristics defined by the Equality Act 2010. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation.
