Project Manager (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships)

Department: Research Services
Salary: £42,405 - £49,785 per annum (Grade 5)
Reference: 1885
Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road
Date posted: 4 April 2024
Closing date: 29 April 2024

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About the Role

This role is based within an established Business and Partnerships team that is part of QMUL’s Research Services Directorate. The primary purpose of the role is to maintain the process and reporting standards for the Innovate UK (IUK)-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) programme and project management for IUK-awarded KTPs to Queen Mary. The post holder will provide specialist project management support and will introduce, standardize and enhance economies of repetition in the execution of KTP projects ensuring consistent delivery quality.

The role will be crucial in providing support to Queen Mary’s researchers and Business Development Managers who are responsible for developing KTPs with industry and IUK. The post-holder will work closely with Business Development Managers, academic PIs and administrative staff internally and with a range of business sectors and industries, as well as the public and third sectors externally. Effective communication and relationship management across multiple and varied stakeholders is a key requirement of this role.

Reporting to the Business Development Managers and managing multiple KTP projects, the post-holder will be required to interact and work cooperatively with the wider Professional Services team to ensure high-quality project management support for our internal and external clients. The post-holder is expected to be at the clients’ site or on campus for a minimum of three days per week.

About You

The successful candidate for this busy and diverse role will be a graduate with a relevant post-graduate project management qualification. You will have a proven track record on every aspect of the project lifecycle including initiating projects, recruiting, planning, scheduling meetings, taking meeting minutes, delegating, managing and risk mitigation. You will have excellent interpersonal, negotiation and organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize tasks within a busy portfolio of activities. The ideal candidate will take a pro-active approach to problem solving and risk management, whilst tracking progress and supervising project teams to ensure the achievement of individual project milestones.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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