Supporting And Developing Our Staff

higher education

ProjectandResourceManager

£56–59k Bristol, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Project and Resource Manager at Supporting And Developing Our Staff. Skills: process management, cross-functional coordination, vendor/stakeholder management. ensure key projects are rigorously planned. appropriately resourced”

What You'll Achieve.

achieving their intended outcomes; help ensure our work delivers real benefits for students; ensure that some of the OfS’s most important projects deliver meaningful impact; influencing how the higher education sector operates in the interests of students; enabling teams and senior leaders to take informed decisions; keeping complex work on track; ensuring value for the taxpayers and institutions that fund our work

Industry & Context.

higher education
Problems you'll solve

proactively identify and resolve issues; identify, assess, and managing risks

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

substantial experience leading complex projects, responsibility for end‑to‑end delivery, deep expertise across a range of project and operational delivery methodologies, judgement to deploy the right tools and techniques for the situation at hand, coaches and supports others to build project and programme delivery capability, enabling colleagues to apply appropriate delivery methods with confidence, confident engaging senior stakeholders, able to facilitate purposeful discussions, able to deliver difficult messages with tact and understanding, ensuring decisions are implemented and trade-offs are understood, understands the wider organisational context, recognising interdependencies, anticipating risks, works proactively and autonomously, taking the initiative, driving progress without close supervision, comfortable operating in uncertain environments, adapting quickly as priorities evolve, commitment to continuous learning and improvement, reflects critically but constructively on experience, contributes to the development of delivery capability across teams

What You'll Do.

ensure key projects are rigorously planned

appropriately resourced

effectively managed throughout their lifecycle

coordinate activity across multiple workstreams

maintain clear oversight of progress against milestones

proactively identify and resolve issues

Shape work that directly benefits students

ensure projects are well-planned

delivered effectively

Connect work across individual projects

supporting cross-organisational alignment

ensuring value for the taxpayers and institutions

Influence senior stakeholders

champion effective delivery

embedding more consistent

confident project management approaches

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working closely with project teams and senior leaders; build and sustain the relationships needed to understand priorities; influence decisions; Coaches and supports others to build project and programme delivery capability; confident engaging senior stakeholders; able to facilitate purposeful discussions

Communication Scope

deliver difficult messages with tact and understanding

Process & Methodology

rigorously planned, appropriately resourced, effectively managed throughout their lifecycle, coordinate activity across multiple workstreams, maintain clear oversight of progress against milestones, proactively identify and resolve issues, identify, assess, and managing risks, Ensure projects are well-planned, properly resourced, delivered effectively, keeping complex work on track, Connect work across individual projects, supporting cross-organisational alignment, ensuring value for the taxpayers and institutions, Influence senior stakeholders, champion effective delivery, embedding more consistent, confident project management approaches, apply a range of delivery methodologies

Full Job Description

Project and Resource Manager **Bristol** **£56,209 - £58,820** **Plus generous Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension** **Job summary** Working closely with project teams and senior leaders, you will ensure that key projects are rigorously planned, appropriately resourced, and effectively managed throughout their lifecycle. You will coordinate activity across multiple workstreams, maintain clear oversight of progress against milestones, and proactively identify and resolve issues that could hinder delivery. You will also play a central role in identifying, assessing, and managing risks to keep projects on track and achieving their intended outcomes. Alongside strong technical skills, you will build and sustain the relationships needed to understand priorities, influence decisions, and help ensure our work delivers real benefits for students. **About us** We are the independent regulator of higher education in England. We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We’re proud of our people, our culture and the benefits we offer. We care about supporting and developing our staff. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination. We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people. **About the role** In the role you will: * Shape work that directly benefits students by helping ensure that some of the OfS’s most important projects deliver meaningful impact, influencing how the higher education sector operates in the interests of students. * Ensure projects are well-planned, properly resourced and delivered effectively, enabling teams and senior leaders to take informed decisions and keeping complex work on track. * Connect wo

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