Project Manager – Learning Systems
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Project Manager delivering IT business-driven projects enhancing digital learning environments. Joining Arden University, responsible for managing project lifecycle and stakeholder engagement in a fully remote capacity.
Responsibilities:
- Managing the full project lifecycle—from initiation and planning through to delivery, go-live, and post-implementation support—ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and to agreed quality and cost standards
- Collaborating across technical teams, academics, and wider business stakeholders to coordinate cross-functional delivery
- Ensuring clear communication, effective progress reporting, and strong stakeholder engagement throughout
- Acting as a key link into wider enterprise change programmes, ensuring work is effectively prioritised and integrated into Learning Systems delivery
- Ensuring smooth implementation of change, minimal disruption to teaching and assessment, and successful transition into business-as-usual support
Requirements:
- Significant experience managing complex IT and/or business change projects across multiple technology domains (e.g. business applications, infrastructure, data/BI systems)
- Strong project and change management skills, with experience delivering initiatives in complex organisational environments
- Proven ability to plan, prioritise, and manage multiple projects and competing demands to tight deadlines
- Experience of managing project budgets, ensuring effective control and reporting of spend
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex or conflicting information and identify practical solutions
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and persuasively
- Experience using project management tools (e.g. MS Project / Project Server) to track delivery and reporting
- Experience of delivering change within complex organisations, ideally including higher education or similarly regulated environments
- Understanding of enterprise systems and digital platforms, including VLEs (e.g. Moodle)
- Knowledge of project governance, PMO practices, and relevant professional, legal, or regulatory frameworks
Benefits:
- 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
- Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friend ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
- Plus, other excellent benefits




















