Project Coordinator (Skills)

This role is part of the Skills Team, which includes a range of university products including apprenticeships, continuing professional development (CPD), and externally funded skills initiatives. As a Project Coordinator you will play a pivotal role in supporting the operational delivery, reporting, and governance of key funded skills projects, as identified by the Skills Development and Growth Manager.

For this fixed-term position the role will support the UK Innovate Robotics Adoption Programme Skills Development project. This is a 6‑month externally funded project which will see the design, delivery, evaluation and commercialisation of a new 10‑week training programme for SMEs in Ready Robotics Workforce: Agentic AI for Accessible Industrial Robotics Adoption.

The position will work closely with the academic project lead to ensure that the project is efficiently planned, executed, and monitored to achieve the funder objectives, maintaining compliance with funding requirements and institutional policies and ensuring timely delivery of project milestones and contractual deliverables. This includes overseeing day‑to‑day project operations, managing marketing, recruitment and participant engagement, liaising with the academic/facilitator team, and ensuring project outcomes and KPIs are met and recorded correctly.

We are looking for a positive and proactive team player who enjoys working in a collaborative, fast‑paced team, contributing to the success of our skills programme delivery. You will demonstrate strong organisational skills and attention to detail, working closely with colleagues to ensure a smooth process from project initiation to successful completion. You will be expected to work to strict and demanding deadlines, solving problems and providing agile project support along the way, taking the initiative in developing processes and procedures that ensure projects are delivered effectively and to our funder requirements.

You will have strong communication skills, capable of clearly articulating programme needs to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders both verbally and through written reports, along with a strong customer‑service ethos to ensure a positive experience for learners and businesses. We would like to hear from candidates who can demonstrate these skills, an eagerness to learn and a flexible, collaborative and adaptable approach to work.

UWE Bristol is a campus‑based University, with vibrant campus communities that are central to student life. In this role, you’ll be based at our modern Frenchay Campus where we’ve invested in state‑of‑the‑art facilities designed to help both staff and students succeed. You’ll spend most of your time on campus, typically 60 per cent of your time, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol, our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real‑world challenges. We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under‑represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit. As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from disabled or neurodivergent candidates.

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role, please contact Fliss Cargill on 0117 328 86303 or email felicity.cargill@uwe.ac.uk. Due to this being externally funded, the contract dates are fixed and we will need the successful candidate to ideally start no later than mid August. Shortlisting is expected to be completed within 1 week of the closing date depending on application volumes. We aim to give candidates at least a week's notice to attend interview.

If offered a role, you will need to provide valid documentation confirming your right to work in the UK before employment begins. Guidance on acceptable documents is available via the Home Office Right to Work Checklist. Unfortunately, this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.

We’d love to hear from you - if this role excites you, please complete our application form as soon as possible and tell us how your skills and experience meet the criteria listed in the Person Specification, using clear and relevant examples wherever possible. We’ll keep you informed of the outcome by email once shortlisting is complete.