Project Manager

• To 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.

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.
• The post holder will be expected to comply with the University equal opportunities policies, Dignity at Work and Study Policy and the University’s Welsh Language Policy and the Welsh Language Standards.
• The post holder has a general and legal duty of care in relation to health, safety and wellbeing and must take all reasonable steps to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for themselves and for other members of staff, students and visitors affected by their actions or inactions. The post holder is also required to comply with all applicable health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments.
• The post holder must comply with relevant legal and financial policies and procedures and be aware of their responsibilities in terms of the legal requirements of their post.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• Essential
  Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject area.
• Desirable
  Relevant professional accreditation.
  A postgraduate degree in a relevant subject.
  A recognised 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.
  Experience of providing management information, briefings, updates and reports.
  A good understanding of effective governance practices in project management and tailoring to meet specific project needs, while ensuring alignment with broader internal governance processes.
  Experience of developing and delivering training plans across different users.
• Desirable
  Experience of PRINCE and Agile methodologies.
  Experience of working in the Higher Education Sector.
  Experience of 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 organisations.
  Evidence of the ability to understand and convey information which requires careful explanation, both written and oral.
  Evidence of the ability to organise, prioritise and plan time and resources, including personal time management, working to deadlines and planning work for others.
  Relevant experience of negotiating with a broad range of stakeholders and suppliers to agree work packages and delivery of project activities.
  Evidence of ability to solve problems using initiative and creativity, and of ability to identify, develop and select options independently.
• 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.
  The ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh is desirable for this role.

General
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We strive to develop a workforce from all sections of the community regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. We promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language through our progressive Welsh Language Policy. We comply with the Welsh Language Standards and are committed to equality of opportunity. You are welcome to apply for any job in English or Welsh and all applications submitted will be treated equally.

We are a member of Advance HE's Athena SWAN Gender Equality charter and hold a Silver award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

All members of staff have a duty to ensure their actions are in line with the overall environmental aims of the University and minimise their environmental impact.

All offers are made subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK and receipt of satisfactory references.

We have a legal responsibility to ensure that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start working for us. When you apply for this post you will be required to explain the basis upon which you believe you will able to live and work in the UK legally on the commencement date of the role should your application be successful. If you do not have the right to work freely in any position in the UK already, any offer of employment we will make to you will be subject to you obtaining a right to work visa. The following link provides information on the various visa routes into employment and the eligibility requirements (including switching visa status where permissible) https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. If you are successful in your application we will discuss visa options with you at the time of making the offer of employment.

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