Project Manager – VERIFY (maternity cover) - ENVEE1888

University of Leeds; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave + bank holidays

The Edge Campus gym discount

On-site childcare and savings schemes

Job summary

The University of Leeds invites applications for Project Manager – VERIFY (maternity cover) to support the VERIFY project within the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability. You will work with researchers across multiple UK universities to coordinate activities and ensure timely delivery.

The role focuses on strategic planning, monitoring, reporting on spending, organizing meetings and outreach activities, and providing day-to-day project management support in a complex academic setting.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large, complex academic projects.
• Ability to balance priorities with limited supervision.
• Excellent collaboration across cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead on strategic planning and monitoring for VERIFY.
• Coordinate activities to meet project deliverables and objectives.
• Handle reporting on spending and progress to stakeholders.
• Organise and participate in project meetings and outreach activities (summer school for school children).
• Coordinate overseas travel logistics for meetings and liaise with project partners.
• Oversee content production for project materials and media channels.
• Provide day-to-day project management support for the research team.

Skills

Project management

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Budget monitoring

Education

Experience in Higher Education setting

Job description

Project Manager – VERIFY (maternity cover) - ENVEE1888

Project Manager – VERIFY: Out Of Sample Testing For Early Warning Systems Using Past Climate,

School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability.

Would you like to be part of an exciting new research project that will verify forecasts of future climate tipping and interface with policy makers? Do you have a background in project management with strong organisational and communication skills needed to support researchers and co-ordinate key activities? Would you like to join a broader team supporting research projects facing Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability?

This role is maternity cover to provide project management and other support to the ‘VERIFY: Out Of Sample Testing For Early Warning Systems Using Past Climate’ project. As the Project Manager, you will work within a school-based research project support team. Project VERIFY is co-led by the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, and the School of Geography, University College London. You will work closely with leading scientists and early career researchers from 11 research groups across 7 universities in the UK, Belgium and USA, and across ARIA's Forecasting Tipping Points programme more broadly.

The project will produce a step-change in the scientific understanding of ice sheet and ocean tipping, our ability to forecast it, and how this information can be used by policy/decision makers.

As a Project Manager, you will lead on the project management and co-ordination of activities associated with VERIFY, including strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation to ensure that project commitments and deliverables are achieved in a timely manner; reporting on spending, monitoring and reporting progress against objectives; organising and engaging in project meetings and an outreach summer school for school children; coordinating logistics for overseas travel for meetings; liaising with the project team and wider programme partners; overseeing the production of content for the project, and media channels; and supporting the day-to-day project management needs.

You will have the ability to balance priorities, work with limited supervision and deal with complex academic and financial information. You will be extremely organised and have clear project management experience for large and complex projects. Ideally you will have experience of providing research support, preferably supporting scientific projects in a Higher Education setting. You will demonstrate excellent team working skills with an ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team, as well as a commitment to excellent collaborative working.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

What we offer in return:

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That's 42 days a year!
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls;
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team;
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available, and much more!

Please note: Interviews are expected to take place on either Thursday 26 November or Friday 27 November 2026.