Project Delivery Manager- Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education

Project Delivery Manager- Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education
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Project Delivery Manager with experience of governance, policy and business process project/delivery management is required to support our prestigious Russell Group University client on their research transformation programme.
The Project Delivery Manager will be responsible for supporting the delivery of multiple and complex key strategic projects/features, in collaboration with subject matter experts, faculties and senior stakeholders. The role will focus on process improvements to the internal customers journey to obtain research/grant funding.
Project Delivery Manager- Service Design/Transformation-Higher Education-Essential Experience
Successful involvement in service design, development and/or organisational change/transformation project work.
Experience with policy work including developing the policy themselves, agreements, and policies regarding changes to systems
Experience of governance, policy and business process project/delivery management
Effective end-to-end project delivery experience from scoping to achieving outcomes
Ability to use of a range of delivery management methodologies, principles and techniques to plan, monitor and progress delivery to completion.
Capability to ensuring a focus on people throughout: delivering change while building trust and buy-in.
Experience of working on process improvement programmes with knowledge of lean six sigma.
Influencing and negotiation skill to work with stakeholders to keep things on track and ensure progress in the face of uncertainty of different perspectives
Pragmatism and flexibility to implement delivery approaches to suit organisational context.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills to work with senior leaders and peers in a collaborative and consultative manner that enables delivery.
Experience of delivering within complex programmes and projects in large organisations
Experience of managing a project team involving programme and operational staff. Influencing team members not under direct management.
Highly collaborative, able to work colleagues in a wide variety of contexts, delivering results that consider the widest needs of the organisation
Ideally someone who has worked in higher education/ research and innovation
Project Delivery Manager- Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education- Desirable Experience
Experience of working within a complex and large scale environment, within a higher education, research, government, legal, regulatory, international or equivalent environment.
Experience of working within the Research and innovation team setting up new research Awards
Experience of large-scale recruitment, including use of recruitment systems
Professional Agile or Project Management Qualification
This contract is inside IR35 for an initial 6 month duration at the beginning of a 3 year programme so there is scope to extend. Hybrid working with 1-2 days on site per week in central London.
£500-600pday inside IR35