Senior Project Managers

Full Time: 35 Hours per week

Fixed Term: Between September 2022 and 30th  September 2023

2 positions

We are looking for two talented Senior Project Managers to join our Strategic Change Team. 

The Opportunity:

At the University of Edinburgh, and aligned with Strategy 2030, there are a number of exciting positions becoming available within the Strategic Change function all of which  will play a fundamental role in helping us to achieve our strategic ambitions.

The current and growing portfolio of programme and project work is both varied and exciting, ranging from the large scale and longer duration Curriculum Transformation Programme  through to shorter duration Professional Service Improvement projects.

The Curriculum Transformation Programme has been live since the early part of 2021, significant progress has already been made since initiation working towards our critical milestones. Looking ahead across the next year the Programme is seeking to recruit a talented and experienced Senior Project Manager to work with us through into the next phase of work as we focus upon both the development of the curriculum offer and the supporting environment through which it is delivered.

For Professional Services, current project activity ranges from delivering service improvements to Communications and Marketing, delivering the University’s People Strategy through to working with colleagues across the institution to identify and deliver new continual improvement.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Significant and demonstrable prior experience of working as a Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager within a major change programme/project
• Demonstrable leadership capabilities for your portfolio of projects
• Strong self-organisational skills and ability to prioritise own workload
• Effective communicator, adept at engaging with a broad and varied stakeholder community
• Whilst not essential, experience of working within the education environment would be welcomed

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.