Project Delivery Manager in Sheffield

This role offers the chance to shape two flagship government funded programmes - Help to Grow: Management and Made Smarter - positioning the university at the forefront of SME leadership and digital transformation. You’ll lead complex projects, oversee high‑value contracts, and drive operational excellence across delivery, compliance, marketing and stakeholder engagement. With scope to innovate systems, influence strategic decisions, and build impactful partnerships regionally and nationally, this is a rare opportunity to combine project leadership, service development and commercial opportunity in a role that directly contributes to the university’s diversification strategy.

The role is based within the Lifelong Learning Team within Diversification and Partnerships. The team provide management and operational support for our online and CPD portfolios across the university. This includes our suite of fully online master's degrees, our Health & Social Care CPD provision and the two employer‑led programmes this role would provide Project Delivery Management for.

Diversification and Partnerships focus on making meaningful connections with external partners, aligning initiatives with institutional priorities and ensuring that growth is both sustainable and impactful. We shape strategic partnerships, develop new products and offerings, and work with a wide range of stakeholders from employers and education providers to funding and regulatory bodies. Our work ensures the University’s external connections are ambitious, meaningful, and aligned with our institutional priorities.

We support collaboration between business and education by:

• Leading strategic initiatives that enhance student employability and prepare graduates for the evolving world of work.
• Diversifying our curriculum and income streams by designing and delivering innovative, employer‑focused educational products that respond to emerging industry trends and societal need.
• Developing innovative approaches to working with employers and partners, fostering mutually beneficial relationships.
• Driving strategic growth by identifying and cultivating opportunities for expansion and diversification, ensuring partnerships contribute meaningfully to the University’s mission and long‑term ambitions.

Our team plays a key role in driving forward the University's ambitions for inclusive growth, innovation, and impact through dynamic partnerships, that open new opportunities for the University, our students and our communities.

You will be contractually enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) one of the largest and most generous defined benefit pension schemes in the country. If you are, or have been, a recent member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) directly prior to joining us, you can choose to opt out of the LGPS and remain in the USS. Please contact the Pensions team to discuss options available.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status. We welcome applications for job‑share, part‑time and flexible working arrangements. For this job we particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic applicants who are underrepresented in this area/ this type of job at Sheffield Hallam. The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicants in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant.