IT Project Manager - Software Projects

• Job Identification 324
• Job Category Professional
• Posting Date 04/11/2025, 09:49 AM
• Apply Before 04/24/2025, 06:59 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Information Technology (Hybrid)

The Full-time starting salary is normally £40,012.00 per annum with progression available in post to £43,491.00 per annum. This role also carries a 10% market supplement. 

Grade: MA1

Full time, Permanent.

Birmingham City University is recruiting for a Project Manager to join our IT Project Management Office on a permanent basis. The main purpose of this roles is to manage the delivery of IT projects in support of our Software Portfolio which delivers our Technology and Digital Improvement Strategies.

You will create and co-ordinate plans that involve software suppliers, Technical Architects and IT Operational Technical teams. You will work with senior stakeholders to define and maintain project plans, engaging with and influencing 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 the projects deliver in line with ongoing strategic developments and standards. You will produce clear, timely and accurate project documentation (business cases, PID’s, Plans, RAID logs and reports), maintain an accurate RAID log, and proactively review and execute mitigations. You will also pro-actively 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.

Knowledge of and experience in managing and delivering software projects is essential to be able to provide subject matter expert network knowledge on risks and dependencies. You will also be experienced in managing challenges around customer requirements and timescales versus capacity, both technically and operationally. This role requires a self-starter who is extremely organised, proactive, has strong attention to detail and has extensive experience in IT project management. You will have demonstrative experience in gathering Epics, User stories, and supporting the Business Analysis function on gathering clear sets of requirements, as well as strong experience in financial budgeting, forecasting and management. You will have a successful track record of managing projects in a complex working environment especially in the areas of software, applications and integrations. You will also have as well as excellent stakeholder expectation management, communication and project documentation skills.

Please note that for this role you will need to be onsite 2 days a week (Mondays and Tuesdays) with a frequent need to be onsite up to 5 days a week when required.

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Job Description

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.