Project Manager Education Projects

Project Manager - Leeds - Higher Education Projects

The Exciting Opportunity:

If you're an experienced Project Manager and ambitious to achieve your career potential, read on.

Join our Higher Education team as a Project Manager and we'll make sure you get the experience and personalised learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go.

Our team is involved in some of the UK's most complex and stimulating projects that are diverse and technically demanding. We have an enviable reputation in the delivery of such schemes and are working closely with our blue-chip clients in the Public sector delivering their most important projects.

Overview of Role:

• Be part of the PM team responsible for the delivery of a project or low number of projects with reasonable complexity up to GBP50m in value - to budget, quality and time metrics
• Be involved and assist the SPM in the delivery of timely and accurate data collection, analysis and reports
• Work with the SPM on the monitoring and escalation of project management KPIs and performance metrics
• Responsible for communicating and highlighting project process compliance issues to the APMs and other team members ( Planners / QS etc )
• Be fully accountable for the performance management of project team / resource
• Responsible for delivering your project in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience

Accountabilities:

• Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
• Deliver/assist to manage small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making
• Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems
• Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations
• Advise colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice
• Collaborate with stakeholders and third party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

What You have to Offer:

• Relevant business experience including management of small to large sized projects that have been connected to Universities/ Schools & Academies ( Design & Build or Refrurbishment / Fit Out etc )
• 'Practitioner' level expertise in one or more service lines
• Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships
• Building the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders
• Commercial acumen and organisational understanding
• A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects
• Knowledge of own area and a general understanding of wider programme and business

Professional Qualifications:

• Attainment of OR near attainment of relevant professional certification or chartered status

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Why ARCADIS:

ARCADIS is the leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. ARCADIS differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. We are 28,000 people that generate ???2.5 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. Please visit: .

Arcadis UK now incorporates the Hyder and EC Harris brands.

What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic challenging job with international focus in a pleasant working climate, attention to education and a competitive remuneration package reflecting the seniority of the role. You will have a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives. Given the international spread of the business a certain level of flexibility in working hours is important.

We offer a fantastic working environment where you own your destiny and will be encouraged to forge a successful career. In addition, we offer some excellent benefits, such as:

PMI and Income Protection

Highly competitive salary

Annual holiday allowance, plus the option to buy and sell

One of the best contributory pensions in the industry, Pension matched to 8%

Interest free Season Ticket Loan

Annual Professional Subscription Paid

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Long Term Service Awards

Discretionary Bonus