Research & Impact Advisor - Princes Risborough, United Kingdom - Association for Project Management

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Research & Impact Advisor

Salary:
£32,000 - £36,000 per annum, depending on experience

Permanent Full time - 35 hours per week

Hybrid Working - Home Based/Princes Risborough

  • We're Association for Project Management (APM). We're a professional membership organisation that sets the standards for the project profession. As a registered charity, we reinvest our surplus for the benefit of our members and the profession. We deliver education and develop qualifications. We conduct research and provide knowledge and resources. We run events and share best practice. We give people the opportunity to connect and provide community for our individual members and corporate partners, wherever they are. Above all, when doing so makes a difference, we challenge the status quo_
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Research & Impact Advisor to join the team here at APM


Reporting into the Head of Public Affairs, the Research & Impact Advisor will be responsible for running APM's academic research programme; which aims to advance new and existing knowledge in project delivery to ensure that APM is the global thought leader in the field of project, programme and portfolio management.


The role holder will ensure that the academic research programme provides meaningful impact in the academic world and advances APM's charitable objects, delivering impactful content to support policy and public affairs work.


Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent
  • Academic research qualifications desirable
  • Project management qualifications desirable

Experience

  • Experience of running a research programme and related activities
  • Experience of delivering meaningful impact
  • Working in a professional body desirable
  • Working in an academic environment desirable

Skills

  • Communication first class communications skills including verbal, written and persuasive
  • Process ability to work with processes and update team on progress
  • Writing ability to repackage academic research into understandable briefings for different stakeholders
  • Project management ability to manage and successfully deliver long term research projects

Why APM?
APM is chartered. We're the only chartered organisation representing the project profession, anywhere in the world. We know that better project delivery is about achieving your desired outcome. We believe that doing so is about so much more than process alone. We're champions of the new.

There has never been a more important time for debate, so naturally we're at the heart and helm of that too.

In a complex and shifting world, we're helping the project profession deliver better.

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Main benefits at APM:_

  • 25 days holiday (excluding all public holidays). This increases after four years' service.
  • Private healthcare and dental cover is available after completion of sixmonth probationary period. APM pays the premium for the employee. This becomes a 'benefit in kind'.
  • Pension scheme offered in line with auto enrolment with up to 8% contribution from APM.
  • Company sick pay scheme.
  • Life assurance at four times the salary.
  • Salary sacrifice schemes pension, cycle to work scheme, additional annual leave (up to 10 days).
  • Free parking on site.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Performance Related Pay (PRP) scheme. The discretionary bonus will take account of individual performance as well as APM's overall financial performance.
  • One paid volunteering day per year.
  • Hybrid/flexible working options are available dependent on job role. However, there is a requirement to come into the office 4 days per month.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£32,000.00-£36,000.00 per year


Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Princes Risborough, HP27 9LE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Princes Risborough, HP27 9LE


Reference ID:
RIA01
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