Prosperity Partnership Project Manager - School of Metallurgy and MaterialsGrade 8
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School of Metallurgy and Materials College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Location: High Temperature Research Centre Coventry UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range 46735 to 55755 with potential progression once in post to 62728
Grade: 8
Part Time 18.75 hours per week)
Fixed Term contract up to January 2028
Closing date: 5th May 2025
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People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years andweare equally proud to be recognised as a leading global want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond support them to succeed and celebrate their success.
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We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas innovation and warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we areand how we work.
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Background
The High Temperature Research Centre (HTRC) is a research partnership between the University of Birmingham and RollsRoyce plc. Funded in 2012 and operational in 2016 the Centre is at the forefront of research in to manufacturing of nickel superalloy single crystals and related enabling projects span early stage discovery through development and maturing of technology and manufacturing capability and direct impact within RollsRoyces manufacturing Centre trains the manufacturing and technical specialists and leaders of the excellence of the research partnership between the University and RollsRoyce plc was recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineerings recent presentation of the Bhattacharyya Award 2022 and Queens Anniversary Prize 2023.
HTRC is a dual site facility; laboratories focusing on low technology readiness level research are located in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the Edgbaston campus and large scale research facilities at Ansty Park Coventry.
The HTRC recently secured an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership grant on Advanced Research in to Crystal Anisotropy and Nucleation effects in nickel superalloys (ARCANE). This large 5 year 11M Birmingham led project with RollsRoyce plc University of Oxford and University of Greenwich has five research work packages alongside an overarching data science and artificial intelligence strand.
We are seeking to appoint Project Manager to support the Principal Investigator with management and delivery of the ARCANE project.
Role Summary
The Arcane ProjectManager will have the remit of managing the EPSRC funded project within HTRC based at the University of Birminghams facility at Ansty. Within this capacity the job will provide strategic direction and management to ensure the project delivers in line with its objectives. The Project Manager will work directly with the HTRC Director for delivery of all aspects of this project and be line managed by the Deputy Director of Operations for EPS College at collaboration the aim is to manage and support the delivery of five work packages and data science workstreams.
As Manager for the project the post holder will be responsible for day to day operational management of the project robust financial monitoring and the successful delivery of contracted outputs. The task will necessitate coordinating and managing the efforts of staff involved in all aspects of project delivery.
The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all funder requirements for reporting and auditing are met for the duration of the project and will also be responsible to the Project Director for reporting progress on the projects and for alerting senior management to any major potential threats to project delivery. The Project Manager will be required to ensure that all aspects of project delivery are completed in line with University policies. The Project Manager will also have responsibility of submitting final reports/claims to the funder and Project Closure for the contractual obligations which will conclude in May 2028.
Main Duties
Project Delivery
Responsible for managing a large will include the following:
- Leading on the management of the project including influencing and developing complex project plans.
- Creating and maintaining an overall project management plan for the whole project using project management principles.
- Identifying objectives and indicators of success and delivering contractual obligations.
- Planning organising and maintaining a regular schedule of project meetings and ensuring sufficient engagement by all relevant stakeholders to the project.
- Establish effective networking relationships with all stakeholders.
- Setting up managing and monitoring a granular budget for the project.
- Coordinate and collate output evidence.
- Delivering project outputs on time to budget and to the agreed quality standard.
Budget management monitoring and reporting
- Ensure records are maintained of expenditure planned expenditure profiles and cash flow to ensure that the full project value can be recovered from funders.
- Ensure that suitable records of all allowable costs are maintained by the University of Birmingham.
- Provide leadership and expertise to colleagues regarding the maintenance of accurate records of expenditure and allowable costs.
- Communicate and where appropriate determine and delegate budgets to key task managers.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring control and audit of all project expenditure within the University.
- Approve expenditure in line with delegations and the project budget escalating decisions on any novel contentious issues to the Project Director.
- Grants ensure all grant reimbursement to beneficiaries / recipients of funding from the university is set up and processed in line with university policy and grant award.
- Provide financial reports to the project funder and to the Project Management Board at least quarterly and more frequently if expenditure materially deviates from the plan in the proposal.
Monitoring evaluation and communication
- Develop and implement a comprehensive evaluation strategy for the project.
- Establish and implement reporting procedures which meet requirements and ensure all necessary data is gathered in a timely and efficient manner.
- Analyse data to determine if it is fit for purpose and take appropriate action to ensure data quality.
- Develop reporting mechanisms for the project then report on project progress to the ARCANE Management Group and highlight any risks.
- Maintain a risk register and communicate risks in a timely manner proactively proposing solutions.
- Engage and communicate with a variety of stakeholders to ensure progress but also to disseminate outputs of the project.
- Coordinates and organises strategic governance meetings including ARCANE Steering Board and Advisory Board meetings producing progress reports for key stakeholders including EPSRC.
- Supports the PI in oversight of project delivery through attending short term meetings (task reporting and tracking finance and contracts staff and student recruitment IP register and risk register updates updating project plan) medium term (capturing impacts coordination with Steering Board and Advisory Board annual conference planning finance planning and forecasting third party opportunities research funding opportunities technical reports) and long term (reports to EPSRC Advisory Board midterm review).
People management and Research Culture
- Line manage (where appropriate) ensuring relevant targets and goals are achieved within resource constraints.
- Create a motivating and collaborative ARCANE project environment where staff are encouraged and supported to achieve outstanding research outputs and impacts.
- Identify appropriate opportunities for development and change and encourage other team members to do the same.
- Maintain the ARCANE website as an external portal for communication of research.
- Supports day to day needs of ARCANE research students.
General
- Actively manages equality diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behaviour.
- Supports the Universitys sustainability agenda through resource efficient working.
- Any other duties commensurate with the grade.
Required Knowledge Skills Qualifications Experience
- Relevant degree or relevant equivalent professional qualification plus significant programme/project management experience (in increasingly large and/or complex projects) or substantial relevant experience evidencing the experience required in this role.
- Formal Project Management qualifications such as APMP Prince2 or MSP preferred.
- Substantial experience of managing large financial budgets along with experience of budget planning forecasting and monitoring.
- Technical reporting.
- Substantial experience of financial policies and processes.
- Authoritative knowledge of the work practices processes and procedures relevant to the role including broader sector/commercial awareness.
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy with the ability to write clearly for a variety of audiences and to produce and analyse source material information and data.
- Proven ability to meet targets with minimal supervision to deadlines.
- Substantial experience of engaging and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills that will help to identify and implement improvements and efficiencies across the project or projects you work on.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively with a range of stakeholders.
- Highly proficient IT skills including the MS Office should be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
- Excellent people management skills with proven experience of leading motivating and managing teams.
- High level of selfmotivation and personal accountability with ability to plan and deliver goals to deadlines under pressure.
- Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation policies procedures are applied.
- Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action.
- Experience of championing Equality Diversity and Inclusion in own work area.
- Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation policies procedures are applied.
- Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action.
Role context
Roles at this level provide authoritative professional advice across a range of activities and/or will lead and managediverse team(s) and will use your professional skills to resolve problems where the solution is not immediately evaluation and independent thought is therefore required to resolve will have wide discretion to decide on direction whilst ensuring activities are broadly consistent with operational policies. You will be able to influence policy through advising on the impact of policy change and implementation in your area of will need to assess the impact of your activities across your area with related areas and to ensure they fit with the broader objectives of the University.
Core competencies/transferable skills
Working at this level you will be able to develop and successfully use the following core competencies/transferable skills in each of the areas shown will be expected to take ownership for getting things done including calling on or joining others to will be expected to be flexible as required in supporting your department and wider University.
Planning and organising
- provide professional expertise and manage resources and/or a diverse team;
- integrate and coordinate work across different parts of the department/university;
- lead and manage staff who are likely to be carrying out diverse duties and ensure collaborative working to deliver a successful service;
- project manage activities to facilitate major changes;
- develop policy within functional guidelines and contribute to strategic development within own area;
- be accountable for the quality and professionalism of service delivery with an appreciation of longer term issues.
Problem solving and decision making
- anticipate interpret and assess customer needs identifying trends generating original ideas and testing innovative solutions;
- deal with significant people management issues such as change programmes;
- resolve issues which may not have arisen before through use of experience and judgement.
Organisational understanding
- has an excellent understanding of their own working area and a broad understanding of the contribution other areas make to the success of the University;
- has an excellent understanding of how the University operates together with an understanding of how academia operates in the UK;
- demonstrates empathy with the academic endeavour and seeks to encourage others to do so.
Relationships and communication
- use coaching skills to motivate and develop staff;
- proactively and sensitively manage the performance of their team and create a motivating environment;
- influence others (including across the University) to follow a particular course of action;
- represent the department at internal and external meetings/events/network with colleagues in other institutions to share best practice.
Informal enquiries to Gareth Pugh email:
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We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyoneon our website.
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IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
