Assistant Project Manager (Digital)

We are looking for an Assistant Project Manager to bring structure, visibility and momentum to complex digital and technical work across the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Faculty of Science and Engineering at a time of significant digital development and transformation. You'll work across a diverse range of projects and initiatives, collaborating with academic, technical and professional services colleagues to help deliver digital solutions that support teaching, research and operational excellence.

This role offers the opportunity to apply project management skills in a practical and varied environment. Alongside supporting the delivery of digital projects and initiatives, you will play a key role in coordinating activities, managing priorities, supporting governance processes and helping to bring structure to a complex and evolving portfolio of work.

You will work across academics, technical specialists, central IT, governance teams and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, track actions, manage dependencies, surface risks and ensure that governance and readiness activities are considered alongside delivery.

This is a practical coordination role in a technical environment. It will suit someone who is organised, calm under pressure, confident working with ambiguity, and able to help turn informal requests into structured, prioritised and deliverable work.

You will coordinate small-to-medium digital and technical workstreams, helping to track milestones, decisions, risks, dependencies and next steps.

You will support governance and readiness activity, including coordination of new service documentation, Data Protection Impact Assessments and related approval routes. This will include helping to ensure that information security, data protection, service readiness and operational handover requirements are visible early and do not become late-stage blockers.

You will help maintain a clear view of active initiatives, priorities and progress, supporting the sequencing of work to reduce overload and conflicting demands.

You will act as a coordination point between academics, technical teams, central IT, governance colleagues and facilities where needed, helping to ensure that expectations around scope, timelines, responsibilities and support models are clearly recorded.

You will also support operational improvement by helping develop intake, triage and prioritisation processes, improving documentation, capturing decisions and reducing reliance on individual memory.

You should apply if you have experience in:

Coordinating projects, workstreams or complex operational activity.

Working with technical, digital, IT or specialist teams.

Tracking actions, risks, dependencies, decisions and follow-up activity.

Supporting governance, approvals, documentation or operational readiness.

Communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Helping bring structure to ambiguous or evolving requirements.

Supporting process improvement, prioritisation or intake processes.

Working across organisational boundaries to keep delivery moving.

For a full view of the requirements, please refer to the attached job description.

Additional information: this role is focused on coordination in a digital and technical environment. It is not expected to be the technical owner for the systems or services being delivered

As part of the University of Bristol, you'll benefit from a competitive reward package, generous pension and annual leave arrangements, access to professional development opportunities, and a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, inclusion and flexible working.

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