Project Manager

The opportunity

UAL Online is an exciting new division established to bring creative arts education to a global audience. We are launching new fully online degree courses starting from the 2024/25 academic year and are seeking a proactive and strategic Project Manager to spearhead major change programmes across the university. 

In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping our new operations, which involves evolving existing systems for new audiences and establishing entirely new systems, infrastructures, and processes across the university. Reporting directly to the Commercial Director of UAL Online, you'll oversee project delivery, ensure stakeholder satisfaction, and drive results within set timelines and budgets.

Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll utilise project delivery methods and techniques to navigate different project phases, develop business cases, and implement strategic initiatives. Your ability to effectively manage project teams, foster collaboration, and uphold accountability for project outcomes will be key to the role.

About you

To excel in this role, you should have a proven track record of delivering user-focused organisational change projects with significant structural and cultural components. Strong knowledge of project delivery methods and techniques, with the ability to define and justify projects through business case creation is essential. Experience in building and managing high-performing project teams, driving successful change initiatives within complex environments, alongside excellent stakeholder management skills will also be key to the role.

A project management qualification (preferably in Agile methodology or equivalent e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM Practitioner, Agile Project Manager /Scrum Certification) would be highly desirable.

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

▪ at least 31 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays.

▪ equal parental leave offering up to 6 months full pay for maternity and paternity.

▪ 2 days of paid volunteering leave for a UK registered charity.

▪ generous defined benefit pension schemes (LGPS/TPS}.

▪ discounts including gyms, nursery and private healthcare insurance.

▪ learning and development opportunities including free Short Courses.

▪ season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, free counselling and more!

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world. 

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.