Transformation Project Manager, Directorate of Strategic Planning & Corporate Governance (PLA036A)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a new Transformation Office within the Directorate of Strategy, Planning, and Data Insights at the University of Aberdeen, under a new role of Transformation Project Manager. The Transformation Project Manager will provide key project services across the University’s portfolio of institutional change and transformation projects and programmes, as we work to support the University Executive Board in taking forward initiatives designed to meet institutional strategic ambitions.
Job Description
This is an excellent opportunity in a role that will make a direct and positive contribution at the highest level of the University. Based in our Old Aberdeen campus, you will be responsible for providing proactive and high-quality project management and project related services to institutional transformation and change projects and programmes; working in support of senior University management, project sponsors, and other key projects stakeholders from across a number of key functions.
The transformation and change projects and programmes the postholder will manage will vary. They will include managing key workstreams within an ongoing organisational transformation programme, designed to oversee transition across the University’s professional services and academic functions into a new operating model, which includes establishing a new four-faculty academic structure. It will also include managing the University’s Martyn’s Law Programme, designed to drive transformation and change based on new, UK-wide legislative requirements.
The postholder will also play a key part in supporting the University’s wider project management function. This will include supporting the exercise of oversight and reporting on progress against the institutional portfolio of strategic projects and programmes; serving as a key point of contact in maintaining and further developing the University’s Project Portfolio Management System; supporting and contributing to the ongoing development of the University’s project-related methodologies, frameworks, tools, and templates, with an ethos for continuous improvement; and providing assurance services to projects and programmes, alongside training and support where required.
Educated to degree level with strong experience in a project management role, you will be an ambitious, self-starting and enthusiastic team-player who can work effectively at every level of the University, and with key external partner organisations. You will have a strategic mindset and the ability to translate high-level strategic objectives into tangible activities at an operational and tactical level. You will demonstrate excellent organisational and prioritisation skills that will enable you to make a meaningful contribution across different projects and activities, and you will have excellent writing skills, with a requirement to draft reports for audiences that will include Project and Programme Boards, the University Executive Group, and the University Court. You will also be an effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills; someone with the ability to build effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders across the University, including senior managers.
Salary will be at the appropriate point on Grade 6, £39,560 – £46,970 per annum per annum, with placement according to qualifications and experience.
Informal enquiries should be made to Iain Grant, Interim Director of Strategy, Planning and Data Insights, e-mail: i.grant@abdn.ac.uk
This role is based in the UK and as such the successful candidate will be required to live and work in the UK.
To apply online for this position visit https://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs
Job Reference Number: PLA036A
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 05 November 2026
The Directorate of Strategy, Planning and Data Insights embraces a diverse working environment and recognises the many benefits this can bring. Applications from individuals from across all of the equality protected characteristics are encouraged.
Please Note
If you are unable to complete an application online, please contact the Recruitment Team (HRRecruitment@abdn.ac.uk) to make alternative arrangements for submitting your application within plenty of time before the advertised post closes.