Associate It Project Manager

Starting Salary from £32,982 - £38,205 per annum with further progression opportunities to £41,732 pa Bournemouth University’s vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge, and enriching society through the fusion of education, research, and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences that help to build our global learning community. As part of the BU2025 Strategy, there are a three major programmes; IT Investment Plan – ensure our core infrastructure - Data Centre, networks, Audio Visual systems and platforms are fit for future growth and expansion and support delivery of strategic applications Digital Enablers Plan – change the way that BU delivers services to our staff and students ensuring that we deliver best in class applications and digitalisation and automation in our processes Information and Cyber Security Plan - deliver security enhancements to protect BU data and systems form cyber threat The IT Programmes and Digital Transformation Team (PDT) team at Bournemouth University manage delivery of the BU2025 programme of work above, this incorporates strategic IT and Business projects. The programme ranges from major strategic projects initiated by Faculties, Professional Services and internally by IT to small requests for enhancements and service improvements. The PDT team aim to deliver all of these projects using standard consistent processes, ensuring that quality and service robustness are built into the delivery with requirements being clearly articulated and managed to delivery throughout the project process. We are looking for an Associate IT Project Manager to join our team to help drive our delivery capability forward. This role will primarily be responsible for managing small projects and assisting on larger projects ensuring that project delivery is to a high quality and to time and budget. You will have experience in delivery of projects and change in a structured environment and be dynamic, driven, work to high standards and be able to build collaborative relationships with both customer areas and IT professionals. A technical background is preferred but not necessary. This is an exciting time to join the team as the work required is very varied and touches on all major University systems and processes. In addition to a competitive salary, defined benefit pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement, this role provides hybrid working and an outstanding opportunity to work in a challenging and diverse environment. For further information and discussion, please contact by email: abest@bournemouth.ac.uk