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Are you ready to join our expanding Strategic Projects team at Birkbeck, University of London? We are seeking a proactive and detail-orientated Project Manager for our growing portfolio of internal change projects and new external academic collaborative partnership projects. As a Project Manager at Birkbeck, you will provide direct formal project management for a range of strategic projects across the University. Working with both academic and professional services colleagues, you will support project sponsors in delivering agreed outputs, using project management structures and processes.
Job Responsibility:
Provide direct formal project management for a range of strategic projects across the University
Support project sponsors in delivering agreed outputs, using project management structures and processes
Ensure that projects run successfully, aims, objectives and outcomes are clearly communicated, risks and issues are transparently discussed and resolutions agreed
Requirements:
Proactive and detail-orientated
Experience of project management
Experience of managing projects
Ability to coordinate, manage and integrate a varied portfolio of projects
Ability to work autonomously
Strong ability to control significant resources, manage risk and secure project delivery to time, budget and quality
Effective communication
Ability to quickly develop strong and effective working relationships with senior managers, colleagues in academic schools and professional services, and external stakeholders
Nice to have:
Particular experience of project management in academic collaborative partnerships
What we offer:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
31 days paid leave
Flexible working arrangements
Generous benefits in the HE sector
Location in the heart of Bloomsbury, Euston, London