Project Manager

Department: Product and Technology

Location: Home based, UK 

Reports to: Head of Curriculum

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: (Depending on experience)

Role Overview

As a Project Manager at Cambridge Spark, you will be responsible for successfully delivering educational training programmes from development kickoff to completion. Working closely with the Product Manager and cross-functional teams, you will ensure the efficient execution of product development initiatives while maintaining high-quality standards and meeting strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and resource allocation schedules for curriculum and learning product development.
• Establish project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with Product Managers and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain project plans via Notion ensuring effective tracking of project tasks. 
• Contribute to sprint planning, stand ups and sprint retrospectives. 
• Monitor project progress and make adjustments as needed to ensure deadlines are met
• Identify resource requirements and allocate subject matter experts effectively across project activities.
• Manage external resources ensuring compliance with project briefs/purchase orders
• Contribute to external resource pipeline planning through early identification of project resource requirements.
• Manage project budgets and track expenses to ensure projects remain within financial constraints.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Manage and resolve project issues promptly to minimise impact on deliverables.
• Escalate project issues where appropriate. 
• Implement and maintain quality control processes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure deliverables meet defined quality standards and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate testing and review cycles with relevant stakeholders.
• Track project metrics and KPIs to measure success and identify areas for improvemen.
• Conduct post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and best practices.
• Implement process improvements to enhance project delivery efficiency.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain strong relationships.
• Provide regular project updates through appropriate channels. 

Candidate Specification: 

Essential

• Proven experience as a Project Manager in a similar role, preferably within an Agile environment.
• Strong skills in product development planning, including the ability to collaborate with stakeholders, create development plans, and deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Effective in cross-functional collaboration, working with diverse teams to successfully develop and deliver projects.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficient in the use of technical collaboration & communication tools such as Google Workspace, Looker Data Studio & learner management systems.
• Proficient in the use of Project Management tools such as Notion. 

Desirable 

• Experience in the education or training sector.
• Knowledge of learning management systems and educational technology.
• Experience with Git and version control concepts.
• Understanding of instructional design principles.

Company Benefits: 

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m. 

Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.