Senior Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior Project Manager to deliver our Windows 10 decommissioning project. This is an essential inflight project to transition of our computing endpoints to the latest supported operating system.

You will play a pivotal role in this high profile project impacting users across the University who are using many thousands of laptops and desktops for a range of activities from office work to running multi-million pound pieces of research equipment, You will have excellent collaboration and communication skills as you bring together different teams to with varying use cases, working with teams within iSolutions and across the University, you'll be identifying and replacing incompatible devices across the University.  

What you'll do:

• Be the workstream lead to plan and deliver the roll out of secure up to date laptops and desktops.
• Proactively, work with a wide range of the University’s community to ensure a smooth and effective programme of deployment.
• Work with dedicated technicians and their managers to ensure the delivery of the project has a minimal impact on BAU activities.
• Champion the project to get buy-in from reluctant stakeholders and endpoint customers.

What you'll bring:

• Your ability to plan, maintain and document a tight schedule of delivery across upwards of 200 buildings.
• Your clear and reasoned approach to problem solving. 
• Your exemplary interpersonal skills, both verbal and written. 
• Your ability to work and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Your proactive attitude to navigate change as well as your patience and empathy when working with those more nervous of change.
• Your passion for making a difference!

Working at UoS

Our Strategic Plan – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) builds on the ambition articulated in the University Strategy: “It matters that we act continually to ensure the University is supportive and inclusive of everyone”.

Our EDI mission is to create an inclusive university community, and our vision is that this is a community where, as an individual student or member of staff:

• You feel welcomed for who you are, and this is a place where you feel that you can influence the way we do things now and in the future
• You feel included and supported to reach your true potential
• You are intellectually stretched and challenged
• You value the diversity of the wider community and play your part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.

As part of our commitment to your well-being we offer a pension scheme and generous holidays. Staff also have access to our state-of-the-art on-campus sports, arts facilities and access to a number of university employee-discount schemes.

Work-life balance is important to us and this is reflected in our generous maternity policy and childcare facilities; employees are also able to participate in the Childcare Voucher Scheme. Our staff may wish to have working patterns that fit in with their caring responsibilities, so we invite requests to undertake this role on a part-time or a flexible working basis. We also welcome applicants who have had career breaks for reasons including maternity, paternity or adoption leave, disability, or illness.

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