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Project Manager (Maternity Cover)
Global University Systems (GUS)
IndiaremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Freelance maternity cover position
- Minimum 3 years' experience managing digital or website projects
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and project planning tools
- CMS platforms experience required (WordPress desirable)
- Global portfolio of education brands across 30 institutions
- Equal opportunity employer
Role overview
Global University Systems (GUS) is seeking an experienced Freelance Project Manager to provide maternity cover within the Digital Operations team. The role focuses on the successful delivery and coordination of website-related projects across multiple international education brands, ensuring both strategic initiatives and business-as-usual activities are delivered efficiently. The candidate will act as the central coordination point between stakeholders, digital teams, development resources, compliance teams, UX/UI, performance marketing, and external partners.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery of website-related projects across multiple brands
- Coordinate website launches, redesigns, migrations, enhancements, and optimisation initiatives
- Manage project timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery milestones
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to business objectives
- Maintain project documentation, plans, status reports, and action logs
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops, and stakeholder reviews
- Oversee incoming website change requests and enhancement requests
- Prioritise workstreams in collaboration with business stakeholders and Digital Operations leadership
- Coordinate implementation of content, design, functionality, and technical changes
- Monitor delivery progress and ensure adherence to agreed SLAs and processes
- Identify and escalate blockers or risks that may impact delivery
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders
- Build strong working relationships across marketing, admissions, compliance, IT, development, and external agencies
- Provide regular project updates and status communications
- Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate decision-making where required
- Ensure clear communication between technical and non-technical teams
- Coordinate activities across multiple internal teams and external vendors
- Schedule and facilitate project meetings and governance forums
- Track resource allocation and capacity across concurrent workstreams
- Ensure actions are followed through to completion
- Support established governance processes and delivery standards
- Ensure compliance, accessibility, security, and performance requirements are considered throughout project delivery
- Support testing, sign-off, and deployment activities where required
- Ensure project documentation and handover materials are maintained
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years' experience managing digital or website projects
- Demonstrable experience delivering multiple concurrent projects
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments
- Strong understanding of website development lifecycles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities
- Experience communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to manage competing priorities and challenging stakeholder environments
- Exceptional organisational and planning skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Proactive approach to problem-solving and issue resolution
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and other project planning and collaboration tools
- CMS platforms experience (WordPress experience desirable)
Nice to have
- Experience within higher education, education technology, or multi-brand organisations
- Experience managing website migrations and platform transitions
- Knowledge of accessibility, cookie compliance, security, or performance best practices
- Experience working with distributed international teams
- Understanding of UX/UI and digital marketing workflows
Additional details
- Freelance maternity cover position supporting a global portfolio of education brands and websites
- Involves managing website builds and launches, enhancements and change requests, business-as-usual website activities, and cross-functional digital projects
- The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring continuity of delivery, maintaining stakeholder confidence, and keeping projects moving forward throughout the maternity cover period
- Position only available on consultancy agreement
- Post holder may be asked to undertake different or additional duties in line with business requirements at the request of their line manager
- Expectation that all employees will maintain the values of the Group and comply with the Code of Conduct, as well as equality and diversity, health and safety, and safeguarding policies
- Global University Systems is an equal opportunity employer
