About the Role
Wrexham University is looking to appoint a Funding Relationship and Reporting Manager to support the successful delivery of strategically important externally funded projects across the institution.
This is an important role within the Enterprise department, helping to ensure that major projects are effectively coordinated, carefully monitored, fully compliant, and professionally reported to funders and senior stakeholders. The postholder will play a central role in protecting funding, maintaining confidence with external partners, and supporting the University's wider strategic ambitions.
The role will work across a portfolio of high‑value and high‑profile projects linked to the University's strategic development and regional engagement activity. This includes projects supported through Ambition North Wales, Welsh Government, UK Government, Medr, Investment Zone and other strategic funding programmes. The postholder will act as a key point of contact for funders and partners, while also working closely with internal colleagues across Enterprise, Finance, Procurement, Legal and academic departments to support strong delivery and effective governance.
Responsibilities
* Oversee reporting, evidence gathering, audit readiness, governance coordination, risk monitoring and project performance tracking.
* Ensure that outputs, outcomes and benefits are properly captured and reported, and that project activity remains on track.
* Present progress to funders on behalf of the university and support the University in meeting the expectations of major funders and stakeholders.
Qualifications
* Strong project coordination and reporting experience.
* Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
* Confident understanding of compliance, governance and externally funded activity.
* Highly organised, able to manage complex information and comfortable working across multiple teams.
* Capability to produce clear and accurate reports, briefings and updates for a range of audiences.
* Experience within higher education and/or managing funded project outputs and evidence is particularly valuable.
Benefits
This is an excellent opportunity to join a team that plays a key role in driving innovation, external engagement and regional impact across the University.
Disability Confident – a Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
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