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Job Title: Project Manager - Unit Manchester
Location: Oxford Road, Manchester
Salary: UoM Grade 7 £46,485 - £56,921 depending on experience
Job type: Full Time, Permanent. 35 hours per week/ 1.0 FTE
Closing date: 16/02/2025
About the role:
This role’s purpose is to manage a wide range of workstreams and project flows across Unit Manchester’s operation. It involves establishing, and then delivering, processes and frameworks to facilitate the scaling and success of Unit Manchester’s projects and programmes.
About Unit Manchester:
Unit Manchester is the University's new innovation unit. It exists to unlock the full innovation impact of our University on our region and the world around us. It does this by accelerating access to world-leading innovation talent and assets, and inventing new ways to partner. This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of the founding team and to help shape the future of the University and the region.
“The transformative potential of fully embracing innovation cannot be understated, both for the region and for the UK more widely. Unit Manchester lies at the heart of the University’s ambition to power an inclusive economy, positioning Manchester as a central player on the global stage to accelerate growth for all in society.”
What you can expect from the role:
- Developing and implementing strategic plans
- Collaborating with the chief executive and leadership team to develop and review Unit Manchester's strategic and operational plans.
- Working with project leads to ensure effective project management and timely delivery of key deliverables.
- Building positive and mutually beneficial working relationships with colleagues across the University
- Coordinating project integration and quality assurance
- Overseeing the quality of Unit Manchester's outputs, ensuring high standards and accountability.
- Identifying opportunities to enhance outputs by integrating projects across different workstreams.
- Overseeing financial and operational performance
- Leading financial tracking and risk management, advising on the need to adjust strategic direction as required.
- Implementing a system for reporting on Unit Manchester Business Plan progress and operational metrics.
- Leading continuous improvement efforts
- Initiating a continuous quality improvement process focusing on systems and operational enhancement.
- Encouraging staff feedback on operations to promote regular opportunities for improvement.
- Managing people and technology
- Serving as the point of contact for HR management, including recruitment and training.
- Ensuring that IT systems and processes effectively support Unit Manchester's operations.
- Directing strategic initiatives and contract management
- Managing strategic initiatives to build Unit Manchester’s services, systems, and processes.
- Effectively handling contracts with contractors and delivery partners.
Further information and how to apply:
For further details about the vacancy, Unit Manchester and the University please download the candidate brochure after clicking ‘apply’.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Applications will close at midnight on the closing date.
We will not be instructing recruitment agencies to support with this search, and any CV's received from recruitment agencies will be considered a gift.
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Head of Strategic Planning, Head of Reporting, Education Lead, Strategic Planning Lead, Reporting Manager, University Project Manager, Continuous Improvement Lead, QA Manager, Academic Quality Assurance Lead, may also be considered for this role.
