The Office of the Vice-President for Research supports the President's vision of UCD becoming a research intensive university by building an environment that supports and attracts world class research, enhances UCD's research reputation and builds confidence in UCD as a destination for quality research investment. UCD has developed an internationally competitive research system by creating a continuum across science, engineering, humanities, business and the arts through key interdisciplinary programmes that are underpinned by fundamental research and scholarship. These programmes partner with over 350 companies, voluntary bodies and government to address national research priorities and to generate new knowledge. The outputs of academic research are often thought to be academic publications however the societal contribution of university research extends beyond academic publishing. UCD has identified the need to capture and comprehensively convey the full extent of outputs from its research activities by further development of its knowledge-management infrastructure for research. The university now seeks to develop a technology system to extend the range of capture of research outputs for storage in, and retrieval from, the UCD research repository and integrate it with other University systems in a manner that will: • Create and build up a comprehensive corpus of academic research outputs over the course of an individual's academic career. • Provide for the documentation of all research outputs (e.g., patents, methods/protocols, designs, maps, recordings, music, exhibitions, performances, policies, diagnostics, tools, scales, devices, etc. as well as engagement activities that transfer and share knowledge and ideas with public audiences. • Provide for the retrieval, analysis and reporting of selections, groupings and subsets of the qualitative and quantitative data in different ways and combinations over time. • Allow for the allocation of measures in the future such as may be determined to be relevant to evaluation of societal impact of these activities. UCD is seeking a Project Manager to lead the development of this project in Phase 1 and guide the design of the technology system and university wide processes envisaged as key outputs of the project this year. **Salary: **€55,000 per annum **Principal Duties and Responsibilities** Although the post holder may be asked to take on other responsibilities as required to support the growth and development of the project, the Project Manager will be primarily responsible for the following functions: • Establish and implement the governance structures of the project to ensure best practise in engagement and decision making within the university operating environment. • Develop strategic understanding and build the knowledge of stakeholders by providing synthesis of the state of the art in this field through consultation with experts and exemplars of best practise in education, medicine , industry, libraries and government in Europe and internationally. • Work with key staff and experts to develop and produce an overarching strategic five year maturity framework and roadmap for the development of UCD's research knowledge management infrastructure which will deliver key university objectives and meet the needs of its constituencies nationally and internationally. The roadmap will encompass people, process and technology streams and associated deliverables. • Establish effective working relationships and feedback mechanisms with key influencers and decision makers in UCD to ensure that initiatives are in line with strategic plans and that they are implementable within key departments e.g. UCD Research, Communications, Library, I.T. services, Management Services Unit, Colleges/Schools, Research Centres, Institutes and major programmes. • Develop and provide the programme plan for 2013 with supporting project plans; take responsibility for the management, implementation and deliverables of the programme plan for 2013 including the design and implementation of measures of success and key performance indicators. • Play a leading role in developing and implementing feasible project plans and facilitate the priorities and sequencing of the work through the Steering and Technical groups. • Maintain a risks register and continuous improvements log, provide regular reporting and maintain all the programme and project documentation in line with best practise project management methodologies. • Work with key stakeholders to identify potential sources of funding and investment for the ongoing development of UCD's research knowledge management infrastructure in European programmes and support the development of partnerships and collaborative funding bids in this area. • Perform specified data analysis and studies to support strategic decision making under the direction of the RMS and reporting manager. **Selection criteria** Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post. Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria. **Mandatory** • MSc Qualification in engineering, computer science, media technologies, arts , data analytics • Minimum of 5 years experience in a senior administrative/project management role within a large complex organisation • Proven experience in coordinating and managing the development of long term high-quality projects different stages of the project lifecycle • Broad programme or project management experience preferably in university management , knowledge management , consultancy , public policy or R • Proven experience in establishing and managing meaningful and productive partner relationships across boundaries between scientific disciplines and cultures, academia and industry; The University: http://ww.ucd.ie/aboutucd.htm[http://ww.ucd .ie/aboutucd.htm](http://ww.ucd.ie/aboutucd.htm) Management Unit: **Closing date: **23.30hrs on Friday 1st March 2013 Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/6392/