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On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Project Manager Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based REMOTELY with occasional travel to Swindon 

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Project Manager , your main responsibilities will be to:

• Define and execute a clear consolidation delivery schedule, reducing tenant/service fragmentation while aligning stakeholders to a long-term target architecture.
• Deliver improved cross-organisation collaboration by implementing effective access models, shared directories, and integrated M365 (Teams/SharePoint) ways of working.
• Drive a consistent, user-centred experience by identifying pain points (e.g. tenant switching, internal UKRI Townhall Meetings etc.) and implementing practical design and usability improvements.
• Establish and enforce strong identity and access management, including governance frameworks, lifecycle processes, and role-based access controls.
• Implement centralised governance and security standards across tenants, ensuring compliance, risk reduction, and transparent oversight.
• Plan and manage a phased delivery approach, including interim trust solutions, application assessment, and partner engagement to enable successful consolidation

Essential:

• Experience working with Microsoft technologies, including end-user devices and networking.
• Experience in establishing robust governance structures, proactively managing risks (security, delivery, organisational), and ensure compliance
• Proven track record of delivering infrastructure-focused projects.
• Experience in defining the end-state vision, break it into achievable phases, and align stakeholders to a realistic delivery path.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".