Transformation Management Office (TMO) Manager

About us:

The TMO Manager role sits within the Transformation Management Office (TMO) and reports to the Head of Portfolio. The Transformation Office supports the senior leadership of the university in effective strategy execution, delivering a complex set of transformation initiatives and driving sustainable improvements to our core business.

The TMO supports the delivery process including governance, tracking and monitoring, prioritisation, resource allocation, communication and quality controls. 

About the role:

As a TMO Manager you will be part of a team working within the Transformation Management Office, supporting the Head of Portfolio and managing TMO Support Officers working across all projects that are part of the transformation portfolio, providing day to day support for projects and the project teams.

A key aspect of the role is ensuring that the range of documentation required to support the governance processes of projects and programmes is produced in a timely and high-quality manner.  You will also provide an assurance function, working with Project and Programme Managers to implement and improve project and programme standards and processes, and prepare and facilitate regular progress reviews ensuring decisions and actions are followed up.

You will be a member of the TMO team line managing and supporting TMO Support Officers in their work across projects, will help to provide training and support to project teams, and will pro-actively connect with and engage stakeholders.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week). We support hybrid working with a current requirement to be on campus three days per week.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualifications/experience 
• Minimum 3 years' experience as a PM(O) expert or practical experience as a project manager in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment 
• Excellent organisational skills 
• Project based qualifications/training 
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office in particular Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Project 
• Excellent standard of numeracy 
• Self-starter and proactive, with ability to work on own initiative

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an education setting

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are likely to be held towards the end of May or beginning of June 2025.

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