Capability and Project Manager
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Role Overview
This role is primarily focused on Capability Management, leading the development and embedding of project delivery, change and continuous improvement capability across the Project Deliver and Improvements directorate.
You will play a key role in delivering capability and career development initiatives that support the attraction, development and retention of a skilled and diverse workforce, ensuring PD&I continues to provide a high-quality service to UKRI.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a project professional to move into a capability space and broaden their horizons with a new challenge.
Working closely with the Head of Change Capability, Project Profession Centre Lead, HR colleagues and senior stakeholders, you will lead talent development programmes, apprenticeships, career pathways and professional development activities, helping to grow capability maturity and professional excellence across the function. You will also line manage colleagues within talent development programmes, supporting their learning, performance and career progression.
Alongside capability responsibilities, the role will undertake project management activities, leading the delivery of priority projects and improvement initiatives.
This will involve providing effective project leadership, stakeholder engagement, governance and delivery management to ensure agreed outcomes and benefits are achieved.
This project delivery element provides an opportunity to apply professional project management expertise while maintaining a primary focus on capability development and organisational improvement.
Your responsibilities:
• Lead the PD&I capability and talent development programme. Including managing apprenticeships (10%).
• Develop professional pathways, learning interventions and succession planning activities (20%).
• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders, HR and external partners (15%).
• Deliver projects to agreed time, cost, quality and benefit objectives (30%).
• Manage project governance, risks, resources and change (10%).
• Promote a culture of professional excellence, continuous improvement and high performance (15%).
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Company
UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
More information can be found at www.ukri.org .
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI .
How we support EDI in the workforce
At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.
Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, any candidate who opts into the scheme and best meets the essential criteria, will be shortlisted for interview. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
- Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered.
- UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.
- Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be rejected and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
- As part of the pre-employment checks there is a requirement to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Screening. BPSS is a pre-condition of employment and failure to achieve it may mean that the employment offer is rescinded. UKRI reserves the right to run, or re-run, security clearance as required during the course of employment.
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