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The Role:
To manage mid-scale digital transformation projects at business, organisational and system level, managing the full project lifecycle, from initiation to handover to business as usual. The Senior Project Manager will manage a number of projects concurrently, working closely with the Programme Manager and many other stakeholders from the business and IT to produce accurate and achievable delivery plans, facilitating the setup of projects and managing resources, prioritising and overseeing project activities, preparing and tracking project budgets, exercise good judgement and discretion, escalating to stakeholders when required to enable projects to be successfully implemented.
While this is a full time role, we may be able to consider reduced hours with a minimum of 30 hours per week. Whilst there is a need to be in Portsmouth a few days a week, hybrid working is available for this role.
The interviews are currently anticipated to be held during the week commencing 3 August 2026.
This appointment is a fixed-term contract until 29 February 2028.
For internal candidates it may be possible to apply for this role under the Secondment Policy If you wish to apply as a secondee, you must have approval of your line manager in advance of submitting your application form. Please confirm in your application that your line manager has approved this.
If you have any queries regarding this position, please contact Tom Varco at
[email protected]
Employer, External Only: University of Portsmouth Academic Services Ltd (UASL)
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