Senior Project Manager
University Sector
24 Month Fixed Term Contract
c.£50,000 – 60,000
London – Hybrid (1–3 days onsite)
- Are you an experienced Senior Project Manager with a track record of delivering complex transformation within large, multi-stakeholder environments?
- Are you looking to play a pivotal role in a major strategic transformation, driving delivery across multiple workstreams and influencing senior stakeholders?
- Do you have an interest in shaping the future of a leading creative education institution through operating model and service transformation?
If so, this could be a really exciting opportunity to join this programme team as they embark on a multi-year transformation.
Investigo are delighted to be partnering exclusively with a leading London University, home to some of the world’s most well-renowned creative institutions. They are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager for an initial 24-month fixed-term contract.
This role, based across their London campus’ (1-3 days per week), will position you at the heart of a major, multi-year transformation programme, working closely with senior leadership to help deliver a refreshed, student-centred and sustainable operating model.
This transformation includes the introduction of a new Target Operating Model (TOM) alongside a portfolio of university-wide Service Review Programmes, designed to enhance service quality, strengthen operational resilience, and support long-term financial sustainability.
The Role
This is a high-profile delivery role within one of the University’s most significant strategic programmes. As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring coordinated, high-quality delivery across a complex portfolio of workstreams. You will:
- Drive Programme Delivery: Support the mobilisation, planning, and delivery of Service Review Programmes and Operating Model workstreams, ensuring activity is well-sequenced and aligned to strategic priorities.
- Own Planning & Coordination: Maintain programme plans, RAID logs, dependencies, and delivery documentation, ensuring strong control over timelines, risks, and interdependencies.
- Enable Governance & Reporting: Produce clear, concise reporting for governance boards, steering groups, and senior stakeholders, ensuring transparency and effective decision-making.
- Engage & Influence Stakeholders: Build strong relationships across academic and professional services, facilitating workshops, meetings, and design sessions to drive progress and alignment.
- Collaborate Across Workstreams: Work closely with internal teams and third-party partners to track progress, clarify deliverables, and ensure outputs meet agreed standards.
- Support Implementation: Coordinate the rollout of new processes, structures, and ways of working, working with HR, Finance, Communications, and Digital & Technology teams to ensure successful adoption.
- Track Benefits & Outcomes: Monitor delivery against plans, track benefits realisation, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and optimisation.
- Contribute to Programme Excellence: Support the development of programme frameworks, tools, and standards, sharing best practice and strengthening delivery capability across the wider programme.
About You
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- Proven experience managing or supporting complex programmes or projects within large, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong planning and delivery skills, including experience managing RAID logs, dependencies, and multiple workstreams.
- Ability to maintain pace and momentum across complex programmes, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, executive-level reporting.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and facilitating workshops.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, with strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
- The confidence to work autonomously while exercising sound judgement in fast-paced environments.
Desirable:
- Experience delivering operating model transformation, organisational change, or service improvement programmes.
- Experience working with external consultants or delivery partners.
- Experience within Higher Education, public sector, or similarly complex organisations.
- Familiarity with Agile, Lean, or service design methodologies.
This Programme team is just being built, so it is a really exciting opportunity to shape the future of one of London’s most influential academic institutions, and be there from the very beginning of the journey, laying the groundwork for a modernised, forward-thinking organisation that values creativity, innovation, and inclusivity. With this in mind, adaptability and collaboration will be vital.
If this sounds like an opportunity for you, then get in touch.
Apply today via the link with an updated CV, or contact amelia.pullen@weareinvestigo.com / richard.grove@weareinvestigo.com for more details.
Applications close 12th July 2026.
Note: All applicants must have full, unrestricted rights to work in the UK.
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