Project Manager (0.4 FTE)

Queen's University Belfast; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement up to 8.4 weeks

Pension schemes

Development opportunities

Job summary

Queen's University Belfast is seeking a Project Manager to oversee the EPSRC NetworkPlus programme, ensuring efficient operational, administrative, financial and compliance functions. The role requires coordinating relationships with internal teams and external partners to meet funding requirements.

The post involves managing funds and projects, delivering claims, reports and audits, and supporting governance and best practice across the network.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management within a business or academic environment.
• Experience developing and implementing project and finance management processes for major funders.
• Experience coordinating claims, reports and audits for funding bodies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality project management, ensuring operational, administrative, financial and compliance functions meet EPSRC and university requirements.
• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to keep projects on track.
• Manage the practical and financial management of the NetworkPlus and funded mini-projects.

Skills

Grant funder experience

Project management

Audits and reporting

Education

Degree or professional qualification in a relevant subject

Job description

FortranFuture is a three-year, EPSRC-funded NetworkPlus collaboration between investigators at Queen’s University Belfast (the lead institution) and University of Southampton, together with a wide range of national and international partner institutions (currently 25) and a growing community of practitioners and researchers (currently 140). We expect to at least double and ideally quadruple the number of partners and community members. FortranFuture is located within the Centre for Intelligent Sustainable Computing (CISC) in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Austen Rainer (EEECS) and Dr Andrew Brown (Maths and Physics) lead the project.

The Project Manager will deliver high-quality project management, ensuring the operational, administrative, financial and compliance functions that meet EPSRC and University requirements and that, where feasible and appropriate, accommodate partner requirements.

FortranFuture includes a flexible fund of approximately £450K, allocated to external mini-projects through a transparent, competitive process; the Project Manager is responsible for the practical and financial management of both the NetworkPlus overall and of the funded mini-projects. The role requires building effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners (including industry and consortia) and resolving issues to keep the overall project and the mini-projects on track.

About The Person

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Degree, HND, NVQ4 qualified in a relevant subject and/or professional qualification) and at least 3 years’ relevant experience in a similar role including significant relevant experience and expertise in the successful provision of project management services within a business or academic environment OR lower qualification and substantial relevant experience
• Experience of working with major grant funders.
• Experience of developing and implementing project and finance management processes and procedures for a range of major grant funders.
• Experience of coordinating and delivering Claims, Reports and associated Audits to a variety of funding bodies or government agencies.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

This post is available for 34 months or until 31 August 2029, whichever is soonest. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/ .

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity .

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport