Project Manager

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.

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

Candidate Information

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.

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.

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.