Project Manager

This new part-time (0.5 FTE) post is available from 1^st October 2024 on a fixed-term basis of four years.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in job-sharing arrangements.

Summary of the role

This 0.5 FTE part-time post is available from 1^st October 2024 for 4 years to provide professional services leadership for the Governing Sustainable Futures (GSF) project. The GSF project, funded by UKRI, aims to investigate place-based contestations related to environmental governance, which raise important issues about how common sustainability transitions are governed at different geographic scales, the ways in which past conflicts shape present-day contestation, and the types and levels of engagement promoted and experienced by different interest groups.

As the Project Manager, you will be responsible for the management, co-ordination, and delivery of the project, including supporting the research team with relationships with project partners, recruitment, budget control and monitoring of project milestones and success factors for the funder. In addition, you will lead on the monitoring of project activities and capturing outputs such as publications and impact, which will be regularly reported internally and externally.

This will involve:

Communications

• Establish, coordinate and facilitate relationships with collaborators and partners.
• Develop an effective communication strategy and plan for the project.
• Develop a dissemination strategy for project results and publicity material.
• Initial design concept, content co-ordination and maintenance of the project’s webpage and responsibility for the curation of content.
• To be a first point of contact for information and communication about all aspects the project, both internally (among the Research team and Partners) and externally.
• Co-ordinate and contribute to the writing and dissemination of briefing notes and other communications with partners. 

Reporting

• Support production of research reports (editing, collating material, formatting reports, proof reading, etc).
• Assist in report-writing for funding agencies and publication planning and preparation.
• Manage preparation and collation of reports, reviews, and other documentation, including quarterly and annual progress reports for ESRC.
• Maintain effective administrative systems and structures for monitoring and recording project activities and outputs. 

Budget/finance management

• Assist in the preparation of relevant financial documentation for decision-making.
• Responsibility for reviewing budgets and making proposals for (re)allocation of funds, if/where needed, ensuring that funder’s terms and conditions are adhered to and appropriate due diligence is carried out.
• Maintain effective administrative systems and structures for budget monitoring, including regular liaison with Research Finance and Faculty finance teams to monitor spending and income against key performance objectives.

Operational

• Support the research team with management of work packages and assisting project partners in achieving aims and objectives.
• Timely documentation and completion of project plans and associated documentation in accordance with the agreed methodology.
• Provide effective administrative support, including organising and administering meetings and committees, core events and conferences.
• Organisation of meetings, travel, conference attendance, liaison with funding agencies and collaborators.
• Minute-taking and reporting during meetings and subsequent write up and circulation of minutes and actions.
• Support and promote best practice project management across the research group and external partners. 

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Further information

Please contact Dr Rebecca Sandover, r.sandover@exeter.ac.uk (Project lead) or Dawn Scott, d.m.scott@exeter.ac.uk (Senior Impact and Partnership Development Manager) for an informal discussion regarding the role.

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