Project Manager

Grade UE07: £35,333- £42,155 per annum pro rata

College of Science and Engineering / School of Chemistry

Fixed-term: 24 months / 01.04.23 – 31.03.25 / with possible extension for a further 3 years

Part-time: 21 hours per week / 0.6 FTE /

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to ensure the effective operational delivery of the EPSRC-funded Programme Grant “Boron: Beyond the Reagent”.

The Opportunity:

The multi-university £6M EPSRC Programme Grant “Boron: Beyond the Reagent” is led by Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones at the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Universities of Manchester and St. Andrews. It will advance the fundamental chemistry needed to unleash the potential of borylated molecules in drug development, agrochemicals, and smart materials. The post-holder will provide professional project management and administrative support to ensure that a wide range of non-research activities in support of the project are successfully and smoothly delivered. They will work closely with Prof. Lloyd-Jones, who directs research activities across the project, and interact with stakeholders across the project partners, including researchers, industry collaborators and Board members.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Proven project management skills, with the ability to plan and organise varied activities to short and long-term deadlines.
• Knowledge and/or experience of budget forecasting and monitoring.
• Pro-active and self-motivated to ensure effective operational delivery of the project, solve problems, and develop/improve processes as needed.
• Strong teamworking and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with technical language, and with textual and numerical data and reports.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held in week commencing 13th or 20th February, 2023.

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