Project Manager

at  Manchester Metropolitan University

ARE YOU A PROJECT MANAGER OR EXPERIENCED PROJECT PROFESSIONAL LOOKING FOR A NEW AND EXCITING OPPORTUNITY?

Our Directorate of IT & Digital (IT&D) is seeking a Project Manager to join them on a 22 months fixed term contract to lead, oversee, and ensure successful delivery of multiple projects from our IT&D portfolios. Our projects span across the University’s key initiatives and are core to execution of the overall strategy. As the Project Manager, you will be engaged in working with our Software Engineering team to plan and deliver complex data projects, working with our Infrastructure teams on the installation of new technology for our flexible learning environments, supporting the plan and delivery of the IT requirements of our new library building or working with our Professional Services teams to build software to help make the lives of our students better – our list of exciting and engaging projects is growing!
Along with providing excellent project governance, you’ll use your skillset to support and mentor our current teams to help them focus on the priorities to deliver projects to the highest possible standard.
You will be called upon to encourage, facilitate, and enable transparency in our approach and to coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate project management tools and techniques and build great relationships with our wider team and stakeholders.

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Be an expert in your field and be comfortable using multiple delivery techniques ranging from traditional / waterfall to agile delivery methods.
• Possess excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills, including the ability to influence across portfolios.
• Have a proven track record of collaborative and transparent ways of working with stakeholders across all levels of an organisation.
• Be experienced in implementing change programmes
• Possess excellent written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to bring the ‘tech speak’ to an appropriate level to aid stakeholder understanding.
• Be proficient in the use of Office 365 applications including, word, excel, power point & project.
• Being experienced in managing software development projects utilising scrum techniques would be advantageous to your application.

(FOR THE FULL LIST OF CRITERIA AND BENEFITS, PLEASE REFER TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND CANDIDATE PACK ATTACHED BELOW)

The initial focus of this role will be to manage an exciting Data & Analytics project that includes the build of a large and complex data repository and a platform for analytics that will prove to be key for the University going forward. You will be managing a variety of stakeholders and will be responsible for the delivery of a third party supplier.
As IT&D, we help to create the University of the future by co-designing new ways of working, enhancing productivity, reducing complexity, supporting innovation, and providing the insights to drive continual improvement. Embracing a digital future in an evolving modern university, you will be working in partnership with our academic and Professional Services colleagues to deliver digital services that help the University achieve its strategic objectives in teaching and research, nationally & globally. Over the past 200 years Manchester Met has created a rich legacy as a forward-thinking provider of education and research. With the university being future focused, IT&D are at the core of Manchester Met’s strategy and delivery roadmap as it invests in our campus, the digital infrastructure, and the overall student experience.

Please refer the Job description for details