Project Manager

University of Glasgow

Job Function

The College of Glasgow has embarked upon an thrilling strategic transformation programme: overlaying vital adjustments to the employees and scholar expertise, by way of a major funding within the IT infrastructure that helps the college and the formation of The Transformation Workforce to deliver organisational, course of, system, and repair enhancements. Our Ambition: We would be the go-to workforce to handle strategic tasks and programmes, delivering vital change in any respect ranges of the coed and employees expertise, enabling excellence throughout the College. Our core worth is to develop and have interaction our folks to assist them form the upper schooling establishment of the longer term.

Our Function: The Mission Supply workforce inside Programme Supply, will assist the College’s strategic ambitions, managing the programmes which determine, innovate and ship initiatives that form the longer term wants of the folks and the surroundings round us, making ready our folks, techniques and processes to fulfill these wants.

Our Targets: Mission Supply will: Present mission administration and PMO experience to ship worthwhile options that underpin and enhance the effectiveness and effectivity of the College, in assist of the College’s technique; Ship a transparent governance construction that allows well timed choice making and strategic planning; Strategy our work with information of finest follow and a mindset of steady enchancment in mission methodologies and their implementation, with a concentrate on Agile.

Principal Duties and Tasks

1. Chargeable for the supply of tasks: inside agreed timescales, budgets and scope: following the Built-in Change PMO method for mission initiation; planning, documentation, and reporting.

2. Chargeable for managing a workstream(s) inside a big programme – organisational, course of, techniques, or information pushed – throughout Faculties/College Companies. Administration of all mission associated documentation and the place vital, reporting to Mission Boards or steering group(s).

3. Administration of workstream or mission employees assets for mission groups usually together with exterior events: growing plans for the supply of required work and allocating the work in response to useful resource sort required, availability and expertise; monitoring progress of labor in opposition to plan, evaluating alternate options and initiating corrective motion when required.
4. Communication with all related sponsor and stakeholder communities, together with session and administration of expectations; participating and managing stakeholders from throughout the College, together with teachers, senior colleagues to operational employees to make sure readability within the supply of key mission communications, together with mission or workstream standing and any rising dangers or points for his or her Mission or workstream.

5. Deployment of College threat coverage to determine, assess, monitor, and actively handle dangers, whether or not in a small standalone mission or as half of a bigger Mission Supply workforce supporting workstreams throughout a fancy programme.
6. Ship well timed and significant mission reporting supplies to the suitable governance automobiles; together with to the Head of Mission Supply, and both to the lead Senior Mission Supervisor or the Mission Sponsor as related to the work being managed.

Data, {Qualifications}, Expertise and Expertise

Data/{Qualifications} 

Important:

A1 Expertise of end-to-end mission supply

A2 Thorough information of the mission lifecycle and customary work practices and approaches for mission administration

A3 Related Diploma/postgraduate qualification, or equal expertise

Fascinating:

B1 Mission Administration qualification

B2 Data of Agile mission supply

B3 Data and publicity to the IT system improvement lifecycle.

B4 ITIL Basis.

Expertise

Important:

C1 Administration of tasks throughout the total lifecycle

C2 Capability to construct mission plans and guarantee these are agreed and communicated with the mission workforce, mission board and stakeholders.

C3 Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving expertise

C4 Extremely efficient communication and interpersonal expertise

C5 Confirmed folks administration expertise and motivational expertise in formal and casual conditions.

C6 Efficient writing and communication expertise to provide clear mission administration paperwork and sponsor and stakeholder targeted content material.

Expertise 

Important:

E1 Related expertise of managing tasks throughout the total mission lifecycle

E2 Vocational expertise with out {qualifications}.

E3 Utilizing Microsoft Mission software program, Agile instruments, or comparable software program

E4 Expertise of working independently

E5 Expertise of working mission groups, together with exterior contractors

Phrases and Circumstances

Wage will probably be Grade 7, £39,347 – £44,263 every year.

This put up is full time (35 hours per week) and open ended. Relocation help will probably be offered the place acceptable.

As a part of Workforce UofG you’ll be a member of a world altering, inclusive neighborhood, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.

As a valued member of our workforce, you possibly can anticipate:

1 A heat welcoming and interesting organisational tradition, the place your abilities are developed and nurtured, and success is well known and shared.

2 A wonderful employment package deal with beneficiant phrases and circumstances together with 41 days of go away for full time employees, pension – pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, advantages and low cost packages.

3 A versatile method to working.

4 A dedication to assist your well being and wellbeing, together with a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new employees becoming a member of the College  https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/employees/healthwellbeing/.

We imagine that we are able to solely attain our full potential by means of the abilities of all. Equality, variety and inclusion are on the coronary heart of our values. Functions are significantly welcome from throughout our communities and specifically folks from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) neighborhood, and different protected traits who’re under-represented throughout the College. Learn extra on how the College promotes and embeds all points of equality and variety inside our neighborhood https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We promote the ideas of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and maintain bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the College.

We’re investing in our organisation, and we’ll put money into you too. Please go to our web site https://www.gla.ac.uk/discover/jobs/ for extra data.

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