Job Description
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Technical Project Manager
Department: Digital, Data & Technology Group
Salary: Starting from £47,389 - £56,535
Closing date: Sunday 15 March 2026
About the Role
At the University of Bath, our digital vision goes beyond simply deploying technology. We aim to empower, enable, and connect our people to drive meaningful organisational, societal, and environmental change. We're looking for an experienced and motivated Technical Project Manager to join our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) department.
You'll work closely with in-house technical teams and offshore technology partners, requiring strong relationship management skills and the ability to bridge technical and business perspectives. The role encompasses the full project lifecycle, including service transition and handover to Business as Usual (BAU) operations, giving you an end-to-end delivery experience.
Role Focus
- You will manage the delivery of high-priority technical projects that impact strategic delivery across the University.
- Collaborate with diverse teams of academic and professional colleagues to tackle complex challenges.
- Develop and strengthen project management capabilities throughout the institution, making a lasting impact on how we deliver success.
- Engage with stakeholders at all levels, from senior leadership to project teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
- Present your progress and insights to the Project Board, ensuring alignment with the University’s strategic goals.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience delivering complex technical/IT projects in large organisations
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Excellent planning, organisational, and project management capabilities
- Confidence in managing relationships across technical and non-technical teams
- Experience working as part of a project team
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
You should have a well-rounded view of technical project management, ideally spanning both infrastructure and software domains. The ability to work alongside developers, understand technical integrations, and communicate effectively with IT teams is crucial. If you're passionate about delivering varied, meaningful projects in an environment that supports your professional growth, we'd love to hear from you.
Our team consists of over 150 professionals dedicated to building the University's digital foundations. This role is offered on a full-time, permanent basis, and hybrid working is available.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality, receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from underrepresented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, an autism-friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
What we can offer you:
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us, and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and an interest-free loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
Find out more about our benefits on our website and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work, as well as following us on X and LinkedIn.
Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship, and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
Anonymous shortlisting: We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. xsngvjr To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.