Project Officer (BiCOPS)

The University of Birmingham is looking to recruit a Grade 6 Project Officer into the Birmingham Centre for Observational and Prospective Studies (BiCOPS) team, College of Medicine and Health – Research & Knowledge Transfer.

The post holder will join a team of Professional Services staff providing management and administrative support to the optimising post-discharge care pathways after acute pancreatitis: evaluation of health service utilisation, outcomes (PANORAMA) study.

The Project Officer role will be embedded within Birmingham Centre for Observational Studies (BiCOPS) and, more broadly, Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit. The role will be located in Public Health Building and benefit from established relationships with programme partners and key stakeholders including NHS Trusts, collaborating research institutions locally, nationally, patient and public contributors, charities and funders.

The post holder will support the BiCOPS Management Team to ensure the PANORAMA study is delivered in line with milestones set with the funder, working closely with a wide range of UK academic staff, as well as colleagues in the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) and other staff in BiCOPS.

Main Duties:

- Support the Project Managers and Programme Managers with dissemination of key project outcomes.
- Support the preparing of progress reports for committee meetings, project planning, and delivering on sub-projects/small projects which will be defined on a continuing basis.
- Draw up project plans, including key performance indicators, identifying milestones as appropriate.
- Contribute to milestone tracking/key performance indicator tracking.
- Assisting with stakeholder management and maintaining regular contact with national stakeholders to understand requirements, and review, develop and propose solutions for any issues.
- Appropriately assess and escalate issues and risks.
- Assist in the management of project resources and/or budgets.
- Contribute to developing communications plans, presentations, and promoting the projects and outcomes of projects/workstreams.
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of project management methodologies.
- Determine short term priorities for work, and how to maximise quality, efficiency and continuity.
- Assist in the evaluation and review of projects.
- Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
- Undertake other duties as reasonably requested by Line Manager.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience:

- Qualified to UK level 5 (e.g. Foundation degree, HND) or equivalent.
- Project management experience.
- An understanding of applied health research.
- Experience of providing administration support to the delivery of research.
- Excellent IT skills, with working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office software and using custom systems and databases.
- Experience of using reference manager software to support the writing of academic publications.
- Knowledge of the university's financial and contract systems. Experience of budget management.
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

Benefits:

- 40 days paid holiday a year.
- One paid day a year for volunteering.
- Occupational sick pay.
- Pension scheme.
- Three high quality subsidised day nurseries.
- Access to the Birmingham Professional development programme.
- State-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, art gallery, museum and botanical gardens on campus.
- Flexible working arrangements considered.

Informal enquiries to Mohammed Rayhan, email: [email protected]