Job Purpose
This Senior Project Manager role will report to the Head of Project Delivery, within the Programme Delivery directorate, working in partnership across Information Services. You will provide strong Project Management and Business Analysis skills to manage and drive the work of the team who are developing the systems and services to enhance the staff and student experience.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Responsible for leading the delivery of projects within agreed timescales, budgets, and scope: driving project initiation; management of the project and its resources to produce successful services that meet business needs.
2. Responsible for concurrently managing several large size organisational, process, systems and data projects across all Colleges/University Services and central functions.
3. Management of project staff resources for large project teams often including external parties, providing support, leadership and direction: developing plans for the delivery of required work and allocating the work according to resource type required, availability and skills; monitoring progress of work against plan, evaluating alternatives and initiating corrective action when required.
4. Communication with all relevant sponsor and stakeholder communities, including consultation and management of expectations; engaging and managing stakeholders from across the University, including academics, senior colleagues to operational staff to ensure clarity in the delivery of key project communications.
5. Deployment of a robust and responsive risk management approach to identify, assess, monitor, and actively manage risks.
6. Ensure that there are appropriate quality management processes in place to ensure that the final deliverables of projects comply with stakeholder requirements, appropriate legislation, University policies and procedures, and industry best practice.
7. Report to the relevant Project Boards and senior university forums and committees on all aspects of the management and delivery of projects, preparing high-quality papers and required project management products.
8. Provide leadership in business process mapping and improvement as part of delivering the wider project change.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential:
1. Extensive knowledge of change projects including organisation and process design, systems implementation, and data projects.
2. Relevant Degree/postgraduate qualification, or equivalent in disciplines such as IT or management.
3. Project Management qualification and thorough understanding of project management methodologies.
4. Extensive knowledge of Agile project management methodologies.
5. Extensive knowledge of and exposure to the IT system development lifecycle.
6. Knowledge and experience of business process mapping & design.
Desirable:
1. SCRUM certification or PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate.
2. Knowledge of the competitive dialogue procurement process.
3. ITIL Foundation.
Skills
Essential:
1. Management of complex projects across the full lifecycle with a successful track record of delivery.
2. Ability to write detailed project plans and ensure these are agreed and communicated with the project team, project board and stakeholders.
3. Demonstrably excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical.
4. Leading change management in a large and diverse organisation.
5. Ability to challenge the status quo effectively and develop innovative approaches.
6. Relationship management, engaging and positively managing relationships with those delivering and affected by change.
7. Proven ability to liaise and cooperate with people across organisational boundaries.
8. Creating and maintaining schedules of work as an active tool for staff delivering work packages.
9. Leadership and motivational skills in formal and informal situations.
10. Effective negotiation and diplomacy skills.
11. Effective writing and communication skills to produce clear project management documents and sponsor and stakeholder focused content.
Experience
Essential:
1. Relevant experience of successfully managing projects that involve complex planning in a large organisation.
2. Experienced in using Agile tools, or similar project planning software.
3. Substantial expertise in leading business analysis.
4. Experience of managing an organisation-wide data centric programme of work.
5. Experience of running project teams of 20+ people, including external contractors.
Standard Terms & Conditions
Salary will be Grade 8, £49,250 - £56,921 per annum.
The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
Closing date: 16 February 2025 @ 23.15
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