Programme Manager

UE08, £43,414 - £51,805
CMVM, MGPHS, USHER Institute

The PostGraduate Hub at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for an enthusiastic and highly capable Programme Manager to drive forward the development and delivery of a new Digital Health and Care Masters programme funded by NHS Education for Scotland.

The Opportunity:
We wish to appoint an experienced Programme Manager to manage the strategic delivery of a new Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care for Scotland (LDTS) Masters programme at the University of Edinburgh. This course will sit within our wider Data-Driven Innovation PostGraduate teaching portfolio and is externally funded by NHS Education for Scotland. The role includes strategic and contractual oversight of the programme and its development; overall resource planning and management; coordination and development of new or revised teaching content with academic colleagues, ensuring appropriate quality and impact; oversight of event planning with the event manager; and maintaining strong relationships with strategic partners.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Wendy Inglis Humphrey, Chief Operating Officer (Wendy.InglisHumphrey@ed.ac.uk) or Michelle Evans, Talent Lead for the DDI Health and Social Care programme (Michelle.Evans@ed.ac.uk) 

Your skills and attributes for success:
•    Educated to degree level, preferably in a relevant subject area.
•    Relevant Project Management / operational delivery experience.
•    Experience of managing educational programmes at postgraduate level and practical knowledge of how Universities operate.
•    Experience of budget management (<£2M).
•    Ability to think and act strategically and deal with complex problems.

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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.  Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

Work with us | Usher Institute - where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world.

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment.  Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.  Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.