Skills Project Manager
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £54,376 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
Please note, there are two vacancies available as part of this advert. One role is based at our Culham, Oxfordshire site, and one role is based at our Rotherham, South Yorkshire site.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
As part of your application, please submit your CV as well as any supporting documents such as a Covering Letter or Professional Portfolio detailing your relative experience to the role applied.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Skills Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing the operational delivery of one or more of the partnerships that the UKAEA has undertaken to deliver on these skills interventions, including the OAS contract, working with the Project sponsor to support a profitable delivery that meets the needs of the contract holder, the UKAEA, and other strategic partners. It may also include the West Burton Training Facility, working with local stakeholders in the East Midlands to design and coordinate a training programme that meets the needs of STEP, other local employers, and wider local communities and stakeholders. You will also support the successful delivery of other technical skills development projects related to ongoing skills partnerships, such as QuEST-FuSED – a new training delivery collaboration with STFC based at the OAS – to ensure a compliant and co-ordinated approach aligned with the UKAEA’s Skills Strategy. In addition, you will be a key point of contact for the UKAEA with external partners and will have a strong understanding of the strategic and business context of skills partnerships, including the impact they will have on local communities.
Key Accountabilities:
Operational Management
- Act as a key operational point of contact representing the UKAEA with partnership stakeholders.
- Coordinate, attend, take minutes, and action operational meetings.
- Monitor progress against agreed partnership KPIs and manage the review process.
- Report on progress to appropriate Governance Boards.
- Ensure that appropriate corporate legal status, governance/ financial procedures and health and safety measures are all compliant and maintaining the appropriate audit trail.
- Support the contract holder with relevant strategic development of the partnership.
- Maintain oversight of projects, particularly estimate collation, planning, cost forecast and monitoring, overall execution strategy delivery.
- Evaluate and present decisions that secure the benefits the project is tasked to deliver.
- Resolve obstacles to strategy delivery and leading the identification and employment of creative solutions to overcoming them.
- Oversee effective communication within the project and assist the sponsor through interactions with stakeholders, defining the project milestones and deliverables.
- Manage project document development for a project lifecycle in compliance with the UKAEA’s Quality Assurance requirements.
- Report of progress against milestones, changes, exceptions, budgets and other key performance indicators.
- Ensure that the project SHE culture and working practices are in alignment with the UKAEA requirements.
- Liaise with other Groups and Departments to ensure effective co-ordination and collaboration across interfaces and competing demands.
Strategic Development
- Work alongside the Apprenticeships Project Manager to define strategic development and growth of existing or new skills partnerships in line with their mission and the UKAEA’s needs.
- Administer the UKAEA Skills Forum and assist the Apprenticeships Project Manager with the development and implementation of the UKAEA’s Skills Strategy.
- Seek opportunities to enhance Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the skills pipeline to ensure that the future UK fusion industry draws upon, utilises and rewards as diverse workforce as possible.
Additional
- Promote the UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Ensure that your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and your colleagues.
- Contribute to improving best practices and quality standards within the team, division and across the organisation.
- Work in accordance with the UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by Management commensurate with grade.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to make sound economic decisions that maximise a project’s value.
- Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management within the public sector, industry and academia, preferably in the engineering sector.
- Good knowledge of the UKAEA programmes, activities, mission and strategic goals.
- Broad understanding of skills development practices.
- Track record of delivering projects to budget, time and cost.
- Strong strategic mindset with a passion for ensuring good project management practices and culture.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and collaboration skills.
- Flexibility – willingness to multi-task and help others.
- Professionally recognised project, programme or portfolio management qualification desirable or equivalent experience.
- Government Contract Practitioner or working towards qualification.
- Background in education, learning and development, or other skills related roles is desirable.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
