Scottish Funding Council

Project Manager – Funding Workstreams

Scottish Funding Council

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Edinburgh • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £62,172 - £73,326 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Reporting to the Deputy Director, Strategic Change and working closely with the Deputy Director, Tertiary Education Funding and other senior staff across SFC, direct and monitor the work of the workstreams within the funding review of SFC’s approach to the funding of colleges and universities, developing and monitoring a programme plan with a clear timetable to ensure that identified outcomes and programme benefits are achieved.
  • Work across programme activities to ensure that project interdependencies are identified and actively managed.
  • Ensure strong adherence to programme governance and how this integrates with internal governance within Scottish Funding Council, as well as to external stakeholders.
  • Actively identify and manage problems, risks and issues which may affect the successful delivery of the programmes, initiating or escalating corrective action as appropriate.
  • Work with the Deputy Director, Strategic Change to ensure necessary changes are embedded across the organisation, to enable benefits to be realised.
  • Support the stakeholder engagement in all aspects of communication related to the funding review. This will also include drafting papers/reports, such as for working groups and the SFC Board and committees.
  • Monitor and report progress against all plans at project and programme level and to the relevant programme groups and other external bodies (if appropriate).
  • Maintain awareness of the national policy agenda that influences the successful delivery of the programmes.
  • Ensure programme and project management methodologies are deployed consistently.
  • Develop project management capability of key staff involved in through training and coaching.

Requirements

  • Extensive programme and project management experience ideally backed by PRINCE2 Practitioner / APMP Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent Project Management methodologies.
  • Good knowledge of Programme methodology including Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and experience of working within a programme structure.
  • Extensive experience in organisational change management, ideally with some experience gained in the public sector/educational sector.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and influencing skills with an ability to build and maintain strong relationships at all levels.
  • Solutions-focused with excellent problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.
  • Ability to foster a culture of trust and co-operation, and team working with strong customer and results focus while being politically aware with highly effective networking skills.
  • Highly motivated/enthusiastic and driven with high level of personal resilience to remain effective in changing business circumstances.
  • Decisive in making well thought-through decisions and ability to work independently and take the initiative.
  • Good knowledge and experience of budget management together with sound business case development skills.
  • Confident and competent in a range of IT applications including Microsoft Office applications.
  • An understanding of the Scottish further and higher education landscape and the role of SFC within this.
Benefits
  • Normal full-time hours of work are 35 per week. We will consider flexible working arrangements. A flexi-time system is in operation.
  • Annual leave entitlement of 26.5 days pro-rata, rising to 30 days pro-rata after 2 years’ continuous service. Public and privilege holiday entitlement of 13 days pro-rata.
  • A flexible approach to hybrid working, giving you flexibility to work from home anywhere in the UK for some of the time while also maintaining regular in-person contact with colleagues.
  • Annual pay review: approved within the framework of the Scottish Government’s Public Sector Pay Policy and negotiated with our recognised trade union, Unite. Salaries are reviewed annually in April for employees who commence employment prior to 1 October in the preceding year.
  • Eligibility to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme. With its low member contribution rates and generous employer contributions, this gives you a secure, inflation-proof pension for life with no investment uncertainty.
  • Support for continuous professional development: as a part of SFC, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive support for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Support for health and wellbeing, including generous occupational sick pay, free access to confidential advice and support through our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
  • We provide support to SFC employees with Volunteering Days.
  • Support for travel to and from work, including a salary sacrifice cycle loan scheme, cycle storage and shower facilities, an interest-free loan for bus or rail season tickets and free office car parking for employees on a first-come basis.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
programme managementproject managementorganisational change managementbudget managementbusiness case developmentproblem-solvinganalytical skillscritical thinkingstakeholder engagementprogramme methodology
Soft skills
communication skillspresentation skillsinterpersonal skillsinfluencing skillsteam workingcustomer focusresults focuspolitical awarenessnetworking skillsdecisiveness
Certifications
PRINCE2 PractitionerAPMP PractitionerProject Management Professional (PMP)