Global Affairs Project Manager

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape UAL's ambition to be a world leading creative university with global reach and influence. As Strategic Global Affairs Project Manager, you will play a central role in advancing UAL’s international partnerships, global thought leadership and global affairs portfolio.

Working closely with the Provost of Central Saint Martins and Executive Dean of Global Affairs, you will coordinate complex cross institutional projects that strengthen UAL’s global position and drive strategic change. You will lead high impact initiatives, support international engagement activity and bring coherence to planning, governance and delivery across multiple teams and partners.

The role combines strategic project management, research, planning and financial oversight with a strong emphasis on relationship building and collaboration. You will help develop new ways of working, support the launch of the Global Affairs portfolio and ensure that projects are delivered with clarity, pace and measurable impact.

This is an opportunity to contribute to work that connects creativity with global challenges and opportunities and to support UAL’s ambition to influence international practice, research and education.

Your profile

You will bring experience of managing complex projects within large multi stakeholder environments and have a strong understanding of the global Higher Education landscape. You will have worked closely with senior leaders and will be confident coordinating strategic plans, analysing data and guiding decision making.

You will be skilled in financial planning and resource management and comfortable working across teams in a matrix environment. Strong communication skills and the ability to engage, influence and build trust will be essential as you work with colleagues across UAL and with external partners around the world.

You will be organised, proactive and able to manage a varied workload while keeping sight of long term objectives. Your approach will be collaborative, inclusive and solutions focused with the ability to anticipate needs, identify risks and offer clear, evidence based recommendations.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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