Senior Project Manager
, , United Kingdom
6-Month FTC
Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: East Midlands
Working Set-up: Hybrid (2 days per week on site)
Salary: £48,906 (Pro Rata £24,453 for 6 months)
Burman Recruitment are delighted to be partnering with a prestigious University in the East Midlands looking for a Senior Project Manager to join their Change PMO!
The role is to support the Student Workstream within the Student Success Programme and will be providing PM skills across 3 projects within the workstream.
Standard PM skills required with a focus on creating, progressing and monitoring the project plans, facilitating governance, reporting monthly on progress, and managing the benefits. With supporting three projects, stakeholder management will also be important.
Support is provided via established project teams, and Programme resource, including change management support.
Experience
Managing multiple projects that deliver pan organisational change
Negotiating with stakeholders in respect of project resources and delivery
Leading project teams within a time limited, task focused environment
Delivering training of project and change management theory, supporting colleagues whilst on a project in project and change management
Producing succinct, well-argued reports and narratives
Leading in the setting up and ongoing delivery of standard project management governance activity, e.g., risk and issue management, budgetary control, benefit management, quality assurance as well as tracking actions, decisions, and dependencies
Controlling change to scope and approach through a robust change control process
Tracking projects through plans to suit the audience and need from detailed plans through the high-level project plans for senior stakeholders
Defining robust, evolving, and supportive project organisations, including the delivery of regular and high-quality project board meetings and reports
Skills, knowledge & abilities
Engaging and influencing at a senior level across a business
Excellent knowledge and understanding of project management tools
Training/coaching colleagues in the use of project and change methodologies
Excellent oral, numeracy, data analysis and written communication skills
Innovative and creative with an ability to translate complex data to non-technical users
Excellent IT skills, in MS Office productivity tools, including Use of Microsoft SharePoint and Teams as a repository for project documentation and delivering meetings/workshops
Strong facilitation and collaboration skills
Diligent, accurate, and committed to delivering high quality outputs
Excellent organisational, time and management skills, with the ability to co-ordinate and manage multiple tasks, whilst also having the flexibility to respond effectively to changing demands and priorities
The ability to take a proactive approach to work displaying tenacity and curiosity establishing themselves as a key business partner for colleagues across the University
The need to learn, improve, and deliver excellence
Great people skills, ability to build good working relationships to support the successful delivery of allocated project(s)
Strong, results-focused leadership skills, with the ability to engage, enthuse and inspire project and PMO team members
Qualifications & Education
Degree and or relevant experience.
Professional qualification in a project management qualification e.g. Prince 2, APM, PMP, Agile
Higher Education experience is desirable but not essential
Please note, unfortunately sponsorship is not available for this role and applications will be automatically rejected.