Project Manager - Emergency Communications (Part Time)
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About the Role
Work at the heart of a high‑profile emergency communications project, harnessing expertise from across our organisation.
At the University of Bath, we are a thriving community of students, staff and visitors based across our Claverton campus, in the city and at satellite facilities across the region.
Everyone has the right to feel safe, and we have a wide range of digital and physical systems to protect our community in the event of a major incident. We now have plans to enhance this even further, to help every member of our community stay safe with the right information at the right time.
We are now seeking an outstanding part‑time project management professional to help realise this goal. Your tenacity, expertise and experience will inform and enable a highly skilled project team to develop effective solutions to a complex set of Emergency Communications requirements. You’ll establish accountability and embed ownership to drive a diverse portfolio of plans through to successful delivery within a 12‑month timeframe.
Responsibilities
* Identifying key deliverables and planning critical paths to their achievement.
* Rapidly building good working relationships with key stakeholders.
* Understanding issues and risks and working with a diverse project team on digital and physical infrastructure solutions.
* Embedding a user‑centric approach while maintaining an awareness of the detailed technical nature of delivery.
* Defining success metrics, tracking delivery and reporting on outcomes.
About You
If you are a project manager who enjoys working at pace with a range of stakeholders on creative problem solving and technical delivery, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
* Tenacity, personal drive and desire to achieve results.
* Experience of managing projects to deliver objectives within a large and complex organisation.
* Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating emergency communication systems.
* Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to achieve results for multiple, simultaneous workstreams with competing demands.
* Ability to work to strict deadlines and adapt quickly to exploit opportunities within a dynamic organisational environment.
Further Information
The role is available on a part‑time (0.4 FTE / 2 days per week) fixed‑term basis for 12 months.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Ben Harris, Head of Internal Communications, at bbh21@bath.ac.uk. However, please ensure your application is submitted via our website. We are not able to accept CVs or applications via email.
Commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
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 under‑represented 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 are 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.
Benefits
* 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 interest‑free loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses.
Employment Eligibility and Selection
Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until the 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. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
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