Senior Project Officer

Please note this is a fixed-term role until May 2027. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-profile transformational programme as a Senior Project Officer, playing a central role in how delivery is planned, coordinated and executed. Working closely with the Programme Manager and wider delivery team, you will act as the backbone of programme delivery, taking ownership of planning and delivery cadence across multiple interdependent workstreams. You will create and maintain robust project plans using Microsoft Project and Planner, ensuring clear timelines, milestones, deliverables and dependencies are in place and actively managed. You will lead regular programme stand-ups and planning sessions, ensuring actions, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions are captured, tracked and progressed. You will also support governance by producing high-quality reporting and insight, enabling informed decision-making at senior levels. This role offers significant exposure to a complex organisational environment and the opportunity to work alongside experienced programme, change and operational professionals, contributing directly to a transformation that impacts staff across the university.

You are likely to be an experienced project management practitioner, looking to deepen your experience in a complex project and programme environment. You will have experience creating and managing project plans, ideally using Microsoft Project, and be confident working with dependencies, milestones and delivery tracking. You bring strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and structure. You are comfortable analysing data and producing clear, structured outputs, including reports and presentations. You are proactive and take ownership of your work, with the confidence to engage with stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority.

UCL is advancing a Professional Services strategy designed to deliver an industry-leading academic, research and student experience. A key part of this is the Professional Services Hub, which brings together customer-facing and transactional services across HR, Finance, Commercial, Faculty, Research, Estates, IT and Business Operations. The Hub is committed to delivering high-quality, efficient services with a strong emphasis on customer experience. Within this context, the Payroll Service Improvement Programme is one of UCL's largest and most visible initiatives, focused on improving end-to-end payroll services through changes to processes, systems, data and ways of working.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.