Project Manager- Business Change/Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education

Job title:

Project Manager- Business Change/Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education

Company:

InterQuest Group

Job description

Project Manager-Business Change/Service Design/Transformation- Higher EducationProject Manager with experience of business Change (non IT/Tech/Digital) project experience is required to support our prestigious Russell Group University client on their research transformation programme.The Project Manager will ideally have business change experience in supporting complex service design/development, organisation change/transformation projects, with a focus on service development, governance, policy and organisational change.The Project 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, establishing central templates, bets practices and processes.Project Manager- Business Change/Service Design/Transformation- Higher Education Essential Experience

• Successful involvement in service design, development and/or organisational change/transformation project work.
• Ability to work with stakeholder to progress and establish change
• Experience and evidence of involvement in service development, governance, policy, process and organisational change.
• 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
• Ability to work within a SAFe Agile environment, including Termly Increment (TI) Planning, as well as with Product Teams.

Project Manager- Business Change/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.
• Professional Agile or Project Management Qualification
• Understanding of SAFe Agile, Scrum and Kanban and an ability to implement them in a complex environment.

This contract is inside IR35 for an initial 6 monthsHybrid working with 1-2 days on site per week in central London.

Expected salary

£600 per day

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:22:16 GMT

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