U Law - Project Manager – Strategic Projects

U Law - Project Manager – Strategic Projects

Project Manager – Strategic Projects Candidate Pack

The University of Law (ULaw) is one of the world’s largest law schools. With an impressive history dating back to 1876, the University employs over 900 staff and has over 14,000 students studying on their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, along with an alumni network in excess of 100,000. They were the first-ever independent institution to be granted degree awarding powers and in 2012 gained university title. With a rich heritage and a reputation for innovation and contemporary teaching practices, the University continuously focuses on developing the best legal and business minds. In 2016, they opened their leading Business School, further enhancing their reputation as a full service legal, business and educational training specialist, operating from campuses throughout the UK, Berlin and Hong Kong and an Online campus. What really sets them apart from other universities is the guiding principle that future lawyers and business leaders should learn in a realistic, professional and contemporary context, with plenty of practical interactive engagement. That’s why they keep their contact hours high and their teaching groups small. Over the past 5 years the University has doubled student enrolments and continues to grow. They are extremely ambitious and plan to expand and diversify both in the UK and worldwide. As they have grown, the continuing enhancement of their brand and reputation for teaching quality and student satisfaction has been at the core of everything that they do. Whilst their legacy and identity as a specialist legal education provider remains central to who they are, they have successfully diversified their offering into business and accounting dis- ciplines, with a rapidly expanding suite of programmes delivered in their UK and overseas campuses. They plan to expand their portfolio into new applied and professionally accredited disciplines. As a pri- vate university, they are agile and innovative, anticipating the future needs of their students, their client firms and society as a whole. In 2020 their student recruitment exceeded 10,000 for the first time in their history and, whilst they remain a predominantly postgraduate university, their undergraduate numbers are also growing strongly. In 2020 they were ranked 1st for overall student satisfaction in England in the National Student Survey. Their success is driven by their reputation as a specialist university of the highest quality, offering students a unique and practice-led learning experience.

BACKGROUND

Vision and Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan

Vision and mission

Caring for our students is at the heart of everything we do. We stand shoulder to shoulder with them, supporting their ambitions and ensuring they are respected and valued.

In 2025 we will be the leading global university of law, business and the professions with a network of online and worldwide locations. Digital technology will enable us to offer unparalleled flexibility, based around cutting edge facilities and environments, further removing geographical barriers to education. We will offer the same quality of teaching and learning experience, with the convenience to study where, when and how our students want. At the heart of this are our people and values. Many of our staff, stakeholders and students helped to shape our new vision and strategic plan.

We are deeply committed to delivering a high-quality service and education. We support and accept appropriate and managed risks, in the pursuit of growth and progress whilst maintaining quality.

Vision and Mission

Strategic Plan

We are dynamic and future-focused, anticipating and embracing change with creativity and motivation.

We are agile and adaptable, leading change and meeting the changing demands of our students and employers, all the while updating our knowledge and practice to improve our performance and the student experience.

We embrace our challenges as learning and growth opportunities and prepare our students, with confidence and resilience, to do the same.

We work together in a collegiate way, challenging one another whilst treating each other with dignity and respect - embracing diversity of experience and background that allows people to do their best and thrive.

We have a global outlook and connect across different cultures. We are a diverse, inclusive community where everyone is welcomed and valued, and our differences are a source of strength.

Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are at the heart of our strategic plan to empower our staff and student community.

Vision and Strategic Plan

Our International Community

Core components of our Strategic Plan

We will establish new, and strengthen existing, pathways for international students to join us - including through our oversees campuses and our strategic partnerships.

Our Learning Journey

Building on our heritage of outstanding teaching and support for our students, we will deliver excellent standards in innovative learning, teaching and applied research that transforms lives and is globally recognised However, our learning journey does not end in the classroom, and we will continue to grow our support services and technologies, deepening our care for our students and offering ever closer support networks. We were ranked top university in England for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2020 and also achieved top ten placements amongst other universities for eleven further categories across the UK including: ‘The Teaching on my Course’ (4th), ‘Student Voice’ (4th), and ‘Assessment and feedback’ (7th). And in the latest Teaching and Excellence and Student Outcome Framework we were awarded silver for our teaching, learning and outcomes. Our performance in the critical categories of teaching excellence and academic support for students is sector leading.

We will embed inclusivity and multicultural values into the curriculum and develop new modules to define and address ethical issues and the rights of minority and protected groups.

Core components of our Strategic Plan

Through collaboration with our international partners we will create global learning and employability opportunities.

Our Learning Journey

Our Learning Environment

Our People

Our International Community

We will develop, retain and recruit the highest calibre people, increasing the ethnic representation to reflect the diversity in our students.

Our People

By uniting academic and business professionals, we will innovate and personalise our students’ future teaching and learning, bringing knowledge from the front line of practice.

Our Impact

Our Impact

Graduates will leave ULaw with the experiences and skills to drive change, helping to transform the future of society and the professions.

They will have not only a world class qualification, but also a sense of purpose and empowerment that they can have a positive impact on their environments.

Our Learning Environment

We will transform our study and work settings through the use of the most advanced technology and resources.

Through our pioneering Employability Service we will shape our graduates into the next generation of professionals. They will be digitally confident, have broad project management skills, and strong leadership potential.

By combining our physical and online campus environments and infrastructure, we will create adaptable and flexible spaces for learning and support.

CAMPUSES

1. Birmingham

2. Bristol

3. Chester

4. Guildford Campus

5. Leeds Campus

6. London Bloomsbury Campus

Birmingham

Nottingham

7. London Moorgate Campus

8. Manchester Campus

9. Nottingham Campus

10. The University of Law at UEA in Norwich

11. The University of Law in Exeter

Hong Kong

Guildford

12. The University of Law in Liverpool

13. The University of Law at Reading

14. Hong Kong Centre

All of our campuses are in thriving commercial areas and offer the same fully-resourced facilities, including well equipped IT suites with PCs for DVD and i-Tutorials, comprehensive law libraries with all the latest legal texts, quiet study areas and places to relax.

15. Online

Moorgate

Bristol

16. The University of Law at Chester

17. GISMA Berlin

18. Sheffield

Portfolio Growth

The University of Law is entering a pivotal period of transformation; accelerating growth in an ever more competitive world to attract students globally, with intensive imperatives on widening access and reducing differences in outcomes related to our students’ backgrounds. Naturally, student expectations are rightly rising with ever heightened perceptions of how their money is being used and what they want for it. At the same time, the University is quickly adapting to changes in the Higher Education sector around regulatory regimes and funding. One of the University’s strengths is its focus on internationalism in our education and employability offer and also the focus on cutting-edge facilities and environments, blending our physical and online learning and working environments. Due to significant growth and product diversification, we are looking to recruit a Project Manager to work in the Strategic Projects Team and take responsibility for managing and delivering key aspects of our Growth and Expansion Portfolio of key projects. You will ensure that all projects are delivered to scope, time, quality & budget and deliver the defined objectives set out in the business case. You will provide project management advice and support to colleagues within the university and be adept at building and maintaining effective relationships with colleagues and senior stakeholders. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Projects, you will have significant experience in business transformation projects and change. You will have led complex transformation projects end-to-end within a fast-paced, large organization, ensuring objectives, goals, and commitments are met while interacting with both business and IT stakeholders at all levels. You will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and work to multiple deadlines. This fixed term role is an excellent opportunity to work in a for profit, sector-leading Higher Education organisation and it is ideal for candidates who have Consultancy or HE experience and are interested in working at a more commercially-focused institution.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Main Function of Job:

Main Function of Job:

• Managing and delivering multiple projects in the diversification, growth and expansion portfolio of the University, to achieve the strategic plan of ULAW.

Responsible for:

• Project planning and management – define project scope and schedule; organise and lead project meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects. • Leading the identification and development of key project objectives, milestones, actions, dependencies, and success criteria in collaboration with the project sponsor and other stakeholders. • Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices. • Integrate new programmes into the University’s operations and planning systems. • Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of key project(s) across all workstreams from initiation to close, ensuring that desired outcomes are met. • Leading the project team to successfully deliver projects. • Co-ordinating the definition of scope and delivery of detailed business requirements through collaboration with the business, IT, and other 3rd parties. • Managing all stakeholders to manage key dependencies and interfaces between projects, to ensure consistency with objectives and timelines. • Ensuring all stakeholders are kept up to date on the progress of the project, potential risks and delays, budget concerns. • Ensuring risks are accounted for and that an appropriate risk management process is in place and followed appropriately by the project team. • Collaborating with teams across the University responsible and with vendors / partners for the full change and transformation scope.

Job Title: Project Manager – Strategic Projects Career (R&R) Level: Team Member Department: Strategy and Projects Reporting to Head of Strategic Projects

Location London Moorgate

Reporting Line:

Direct Reports None

• The Project Manager will report to the Head of Strategic Projects.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Specif c Responsibilities i

Professional Skills

• Actively take responsibility for your own personal career development in all respects. • Through active networking and research, develop a comprehensive awareness and knowledge of the legal, education and commercial markets nationally and internationally.

Project Management

• Provide effective project management, ensuring that the project(s) are delivered on time, on budget and to the standard required. • Ensure that the project(s) and its workstreams are appropriately evaluated, briefed, budgeted, and documented. • Create and maintain project plans, track deliverables against time and cost, monitor slippage and agree alternative arrangements to accommodate delays in time-critical deliverables. • Manage project risk and issues, communicating the impact to the project and overseeing their mitigation and resolution. • Prepare engaging, coherent, and concise project reports and presentations; co-ordinating the production, review and sign- off of deliverables. • Take ownership of project documentation to ensure documents are disseminated to stakeholders and records are kept of progress, decision making, expected benefits and actual benefits realised. • Dealing with ambiguity and translating into business requirements. • Carry out detailed fact-finding, >Page 1 Page 2-3 Page 4-5 Page 6-7 Page 8-9 Page 10-11 Page 12-13 Page 14-15 Page 16-17 Page 18

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