IT Project Manager - Infrastructure Experience

Length: Permanent Full Time

Location: Required to be onsite 2 days a week on Mondays and Tuesdays with a frequent need to be onsite up to 5 days a week when required due to overseeing infrastructure works relating to estates moves

Salary: 44k per annum

Birmingham City University require an IT Project Manager to deliver IT and Estates related projects in support of our ongoing infrastructure modernisation and digital transformation strategy

You will be creating and co-ordinating plans that involve estates, operational customers (lecturers/professional service departments) and IT suppliers, infrastructure engineers and IT support teams

You will work with senior stakeholders to define project plans and creating solutions to ensure the project will deliver agreed business objectives on time, within cost and to defined quality levels

You will also work with other project leads and team managers across IT Services and the wider University to ensure that your infrastructure projects are delivered effectively and that risks and dependencies are managed well alongside other concurrent significant works

Knowledge and experience of managing and delivering infrastructure projects is essential to be able to provide subject matter expert network knowledge on risks and dependencies on challenges around customer requirements and timescales versus capacity both technically and operationally

Essential role requirements:

Clear, confident and concise communication skills - written and verbal
Create short, medium and long terms plans with accurate content
Schedule, monitor and report on project activities to ensure that each part contributes to the overall delivery
Identify issues with project delivery, cost, risk, inter-dependencies, impact on current business activities and the benefits to be realised and ensure that these are managed appropriately and reported effectively
In managing the project, you will work closely with relevant team leads and suppliers to initiate required works, monitor delivery and recommend corrective action where appropriate and reporting on overall project status
Support the strategic engagement with Estates to ensure coherent plans and outcomes
Work with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders to understand and agree what will meet their needs and to ensure that appropriate expectations are defined
Demonstrate a successful track record of managing projects in a complex working environment especially in any areas of Infrastructure, Audio Visual, Networks and Voice
Excellent stakeholder management skills, along with strong project management knowledge and experience
Prince 2 Practitioner qualification preferrable