Head of Prioritisation, Planning

23 hours ago

Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

**Head of Prioritisation, Planning & Resourcing**:
**Salary: Grade 9 (£53,353 - £61,823 p.a. depending on experience)**

This role will be based on_ _the_ _university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

**Are you committed to evolving resource management, finding new ways to practice planning, scheduling, and allocating people, money, and technology to a project or programme. Do you love finding new ways of delighting your customers and colleagues?**

The University of Leeds is one of the top 135 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.

You will lead the transition of the IT department’s demand and capacity capability towards increasingly Agile and product-based ways of working, as well as managing a team to improve prioritisation processes, structures and tools.

With experience of how to best utilise shared and limited resources, you will be able to demonstrate experience of creating visibility into demand and capacity, as well as managing the required skills for particular work versus available skills. You will consider schedules, budgets, and alignment with corporate strategy to make sure you are prioritising resources across the portfolio to maximise its value.

You will also demonstrate ability to identity and prioritise improvement opportunities that enable customer-focused delivery, whether in reducing lead-times, unblocking resource constraints or recommending alternative delivery models.

As part of the IT Leadership Team, you will work collaboratively with the leadership team across all functions to ensure that capacity and capability are effectively deployed to deliver a seamless service for customers. You will be responsible for minimising waste and duplication, streamlining and automating processes (where possible), and maximising and speeding throughput, ensuring The University’s IT project delivery function is in a better position to respond quickly to customer demands and be quick to react to change.

**What we offer in return**
- 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) - That’s over 40 days a year
- Generous pension scheme - the University contributes 21.6% of salary
- Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
- Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
- Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more

**To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact**:
Jason Preston, Director of IT Project Delivery

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