Purpose of the post
The Project Manager will be responsible for delivering a UK-wide project “Data curations skills for sensitive data” led by HDR UK and in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, the Software Sustainability Institute, and Secure Data Access Professionals (SDAP).
Their responsibilities will include project planning and monitoring including resource allocation and grant administration, team communication and reporting, and ownership of in-person events.
The Project Manager will monitor the timeline and progress against targets, resolving problems and working closely with other members of the UK consortium.
Main responsibilities
- Guide the project management and provide a single co-ordination point.
- Track and maintain key deliverables throughout the project.
- Proactively manage project risks.
- Work with internal and external partners to coordinate activities, identifying and tracking interdependencies.
- Facilitate regular meetings, record and follow-up actions agreed at those meetings, ensuring relevant stakeholder contributions and feedback are incorporated; coordinate key stakeholders’ involvement at appropriate stages throughout the project.
- Lead on the planning and delivery of in-person events.
- Support financial and contractual commitments, liaising with the Finance and Contracts teams across the distributed project partners.
- Work directly with funders and the project team to report on progress and devise solutions to roadblocks and issues as they arise; contribute to reports to funding bodies, including via Research Fish.
- Support and monitor compliance of the project with Institute and UK Digital Research Infrastructure Skills policies on data management, sharing and access, the GDPR and other regulations (when relevant).
Experience and Skills
Experience
- Strong project management experience in a distributed setting.
- Demonstrable success in delivering complex projects with multiple components and many collaborating organisations in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrable project management experience in a research context, ideally in the health or sensitive data research sector
- Awareness of sensitive data research landscape, the needs of research data users and data custodians and appreciation of public sensitivities of using sensitive data for research; understanding of topics such as trusted research environments and data curation.
- Broad organisational management skills
- Facilitating meetings and delivering presentations.
- Organising and managing workshops and events.
- Communicating effectively with range of stakeholders, including written communications (e.g. news stories, case studies).
- Collaborating across teams and/or organisations to help create and deliver shared goals.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Autonomous and distributed team working.
Skills
- Knowledge and application of a range of project management tools
- Excellent planning, organisation and time-management and project management skills with a proven track record of delivering projects at pace.
- Ability to build and maintain momentum across project teams of multi-skilled professionals.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement / account management including ability to network, negotiate and influence effectively with range of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including the ability to explain concepts without technical jargon and communicate confidently with people at all levels.
- Ability to build relationships, negotiate and influence effectively.
- Organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to work autonomously and make decisions without supervision.
Please note, as we are a UK-based organisation, applicants must be living in, and eligible to work in, the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
