- Responsible for the management and reporting of research work packages and demonstrators across all academic and industrial partners. This includes managing timelines, action logs, identifying key milestones and project work plans, maintenance of risk registers and ensuring that deadlines and deliverables are achieved.
- Challenge Led Demonstrator projects (CLDs) will be jointly led by two academic leaders with the PIEM, using agile approaches to deliver transport mode focussed digital twins and inter-modal transport models.
- Work Packages (WP) will have academic leadership, with PIEM support to manage the resourcing and delivery of research outputs over the programme.
- PIEMs will be responsible for co-ordinating activity across WPs and CLDs to ensure that programme interdependencies are respected.
- Responsible for maintaining risk registers for WPs and CLDs and managing the mitigation of risks, particularly those that impact the programme / other WPS or CLDs
- Responsible for maintenance of performance dashboards and KPI reporting
- Responsible for updating of project plans
- Resource and financial reporting
- Key industrial partners have committed in-kind resources to the development of CLDs, and the PIEM is responsible for ensuring timely and effective industrial engagement in the research activities and effective communications with all stakeholders including consultation and management of expectations. PIEM is also responsible for the maintenance of an engagement register for weekly reporting to PM team.
- The programme outputs are expected to inform policy internationally, nationally and locally in diverse domains (transport modes, energy, digital security, etc.) The PIEMs will support engagement with policy communities through reporting to the TransiT Policy Advisory Board and through a range of bilateral engagements informing the research activity.
- Heriot-Watt University has committed to support a number of Panmure House policy fellowships for secondments of senior government staff to engage with research teams. The PIEM will manage the Panmure House TransiT Fellowship scheme, including the processes for the selection of fellows and the arrangements to support their engagement in the research.
- Proactively manage engagement with related research hubs to ensure cross-learning and complementarity of research messages.
- Preparation of monthly operations reports (progress reports, risk registers, engagement logs) for all WPS and CLDs.
- Preparation of reports for Transit Executive Team (quarterly) and Advisory Board (bi-annually)
- Identify and resolve of a wide variety of complex issues using specialist knowledge and a high degree of initiative
- Assess critical situations accurately and use judgement to quickly make decisions.
- Educated to , or equivalent professional experience
- Experience of working in a project management role within a research or software development environment.
- Ability to persuade, motivate and lead a team, including setting objectives and managing workload
- Competent in the use of relevant IT packages, such as MS Project Professional or similar.
- Substantial professional expertise in project management
- Well-developed understanding of relevant legal, statutory and governance applications and turning them into good practice (e.g. H&S, employment law)
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and presentation skills
- Able to understand and communicate complex issues effectively
- Excellent customer service
- Ability to work quickly, flexibly and accurately in a dynamic, changing and pressured environment
- Experience of working closely with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
- Ability to research, analyse and present complex information effectively with good attention to detail
- High level planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise major developments
- Professional and proactive approach to work
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Professional Qualification such as PRINCE 2, or membership of a relevant Professional body such as APM
- Experience of working in Higher Education Research
- Knowledge of transport sector and/or decarbonisation policies
- Knowledge of UKRI reporting requirements
- Understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the Higher Education sector
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Project Manager - Midlothian, United Kingdom - Heriot-Watt University
Description
Job Title: Project Manager (Project and Industrial Engagement Manager – PIEM)
Directorate: School of Social Sciences
Contract Type: Full time (35 hours per week), Open-ended (Fixed-Funded)
Grade and Salary: Grade 8 (£45585-£54395)
Organisation Name: TransiT Research Hub (Digital Twinning for Transport Decarbonisation)
Purpose of the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to deliver a complex and transformative research programme to rapidly advance the decarbonisation of transport, building strong industrial and policy networks.
Detailed Description
Such an ambitious research programme demands a significant project management team, led by the Hub Manager, with support from two project and industrial engagement managers (PIEMs).
The PIEM will direct the delivery of work packages and demonstration models across the consortium (all academic and industry partners) and maximise the contribution of the significant industrial resource committed to this work. It requires strong experience in project management and industrial engagement.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Please note that this job description is not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake other relevant duties commensurate with the grading of the post. Activities may be subject to amendment over time as the role develops and/or priorities and requirements evolve.
About our Team
Heriot-Watt University is leading a consortium of seven universities, supporting the formation of a new national research centred funded by a significant UKRI and stakeholder co-investment for a 5-year and £45M programme of challenge-led research into digital twinning for transport decarbonisation. The research will build on highly successful consultations which explored transport decarbonisation and mode integration. This new national research hub will be responsible for delivering new knowledge, technical capabilities and policy advisement relating to UK transport decarbonisation priorities. This highly ambitious programme of research is supported by over 65 industrial, research and stakeholder organisations. The programme depends on high standards of data security in all processes.
Education, Qualifications & Experience:
These are the criteria on which the short-listing and recruitment selection will be based.
Essential
Education & Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Desirable
