MEP Project Manager

UCL; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution is seeking a Project Manager for the Mandarin Excellence Programme in Greater London. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and delivering project outputs, managing budgets, and ensuring synergy among team members. Applicants should demonstrate effective project management from initiation to closure, ideally with educational project experience. This role offers competitive benefits, including substantial annual leave and enhanced pay for family leave.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

Defined benefit pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

On-site nursery

On-site gym

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Evidence of successful project management from initiation to closure.
• Significant experience in project planning and delivery.
• Desirable: Experience managing educational projects.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise, and deliver project outputs successfully.
• Manage, monitor, and report project progress.
• Identify risks and manage budgets and KPIs.

Skills

Project management

Educational project experience

Job description

About us

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

About the Role

The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in the Mandarin Excellence Programme so that project outputs are planned, organised and delivered successfully, meeting specifications agreed with project funders. Key areas of work include the delivery of MEP projects that enable student assessment, MEP teacher CPD, resource development, intensive study for students, and MEP school support. The Project Manager will work closely with all team members to ensure synergy exists between the different aspects of the programme and more widely across other projects delivered by the IOE. Reporting to the MEP Programme Manager, the Project Manager will manage, monitor and report project progress against key milestones and key deliverables, identify and monitor risks, and manage budgets and KPI’s as required.

This post is initially funded until 31 August 2026. For further information, please contact Matt Schofield at [e-mail].

About You

You’ll have evidence of successful project management from project initiation to project closure and significant experience of project planning and project delivery. Previous experience of managing educational projects is desirable.

Your application form should address all Person Specification points and clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria. It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our Commitment to EDI

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

Customer advert reference: B16-01965