Project Manager

University of Glasgow; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Glasgow invites applications for a Project Manager in the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing. You will lead and oversee complex international clinical research activities, coordinating sites in Glasgow and Nepal, ensuring milestones, ethical and financial compliance, and high-quality research outputs.

This full-time, hybrid role requires flexible hours to accommodate Nepal-based colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight to optimise project management, support staff development, and contribute to research outputs.
• Ensure communications between sites and funders and with external stakeholders are continually delivered.
• Ensure the study is run effectively according to clinical, ethical, financial and legal requirements and meets all milestones and targets.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Communication

Job description

Location: Glasgow Royal Infirmary

A community-based dietary programme for type 2 diabetes prevention and remission: clinical trial and implementation evaluation in Nepal (https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN13609165 )

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and open ended with funding available up until 31st March 2030. Applications for part-time hours might be considered, please indicate your preference in your cover letter.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 570 years, and today we are one of the world's top 100 universities. We are delighted to have recently been awarded Scottish University of the Year by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project manager to join the team within the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing. You will provide leadership and oversight to optimise project management, to support staff development, and to contribute to research outputs, within a well-established international collaborative research team (UK and Nepal).

The successful candidate will play a leading role to ensure communications between sites and funders, and with external stakeholders are continually delivered, to ensure that the study is run effectively according to clinical, ethical, financial and legal requirements, and meets all milestones and targets.

The post holder will work closely with Principal Investigators (Professors Mike Lean in Glasgow, Scotland, and Biraj Karmacharya in Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal) and with other members of the Trial Management Group (Work-Package leaders) including a Nepal-based Project Coordinator at

Dhulikhel Hospital, to ensure reliable planning and implementation of research activities in line with study protocol, funder requirements and agreed project milestones.

Please note, this work will need to be conducted at times appropriate to colleagues in Nepal, which may on occasion be outside normal UK working hours.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Mike Lean at [e-mail]

Closing date: 23:45 on Monday 2nd November 2026

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or be eligible to obtain permission to work in the UK.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route, subject to meeting the relevant Home Office requirements, including any applicable tradeable points criteria. Further information can be found on the University of Glasgow’s UKVI Website:https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/pod/visasimmigration/skilledworkervisa/

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.

We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.

Project Manager

Company: University of Glasgow

Salary: £50,253 to £58,225 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Working pattern: Hybrid - 2 days remote

Job type: Contract

Posting date: 5 Oct 2026

Closing date: 2 Nov 2026

Summary

Vacancy title: Project Manager

Vacancy Reference: 206673

Salary: UofG Grade 8, £50,253 - £58,225 per annum

Location: Glasgow Royal Infirmary

A community-based dietary programme for type 2 diabetes prevention and remission: clinical trial and implementation evaluation in Nepal (https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN13609165 )

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and open ended with funding available up until 31st March 2030. Applications for part-time hours might be considered, please indicate your preference in your cover letter.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 570 years, and today we are one of the world's top 100 universities. We are delighted to have recently been awarded Scottish University of the Year by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project manager to join the team within the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing. You will provide leadership and oversight to optimise project management, to support staff development, and to contribute to research outputs, within a well-established international collaborative research team (UK and Nepal).

The successful candidate will play a leading role to ensure communications between sites and funders, and with external stakeholders are continually delivered, to ensure that the study is run effectively according to clinical, ethical, financial and legal requirements, and meets all milestones and targets.

The post holder will work closely with Principal Investigators (Professors Mike Lean in Glasgow, Scotland, and Biraj Karmacharya in Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal) and with other members of the Trial Management Group (Work-Package leaders) including a Nepal-based Project Coordinator at

Dhulikhel Hospital, to ensure reliable planning and implementation of research activities in line with study protocol, funder requirements and agreed project milestones.

Please note, this work will need to be conducted at times appropriate to colleagues in Nepal, which may on occasion be outside normal UK working hours.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Mike Lean at [e-mail]

Closing date: 23:45 on Monday 2nd November 2026

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or be eligible to obtain permission to work in the UK.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route, subject to meeting the relevant Home Office requirements, including any applicable tradeable points criteria. Further information can be found on the University of Glasgow’s UKVI Website:https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/pod/visasimmigration/skilledworkervisa/

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.

We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.

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