Project Manager

City st georges; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

City St George’s, University of London is seeking an IT Project Manager to lead a portfolio of strategic IT initiatives, ensuring delivery on time, cost and quality within a university environment.

You will work with technical and architecture teams and stakeholders across the university to define scope, manage risks, and report progress to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage the definition and delivery of projects typically strategic in nature, in support of IT services and infrastructure lifecycles.
• Ensure defined service design and transition processes are followed when introducing, enhancing, or decommissioning IT services.
• Deliver effective communication and reporting of progress, maintaining records of decisions, costs, time, resources and scope changes.
• Monitor, control, and report delivery progress against the plan, identifying risks and opportunities to keep work on track.
• Identify and engage stakeholders and project team members with clearly defined responsibilities and resources.
• Manage stakeholder expectations through effective communication and engagement.

Job description

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

The IT Project Management team at City is responsible for delivering a portfolio of IT initiatives, including strategic programmes, technology infrastructure change projects including upgrades, enhancements to existing services, and implementation of new services. The team work closely with technical and architecture teams, and stakeholders from across the university, to ensure projects within the IT portfolio are delivered on time, cost and to relevant quality standards.

The role holder will be responsible for the definition and delivery of IT projects within agreed parameters of scope, time, cost, and quality. The post will be part of the IT Project Management team.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the role is to:

Manage the definition and delivery of projects as allocated, typically strategic in nature, in support of the lifecycle of existing IT services and infrastructure, or that introduce new IT services.

Ensure the defined service design and transition processes are followed when introducing, enhancing, or decommissioning IT services.

Deliver effective communication and reporting of progress, maintaining a clear record of control parameters including decisions, costs, time, resourcing, and changes to scope etc.

Monitor, control, and report on the delivery progress against the defined plan, identifying and managing risks and opportunities to keep the work on track, controlling changes to baseline plans where needed, following the relevant change control processes.

Identify and engage stakeholders and project team members appropriately, with responsibilities and resource requirements clearly defined and agreed.

Manage stakeholder expectations through effective communication and engagement.

Additional Information

Closing date for applications: 08 November 2026 at 11:59pm

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

The University of business, practice and the professions