Contracts Manager - GBP40,000 - Part time (2-3 days per week)

About the Business:

IN4.0 Group are a UK leader in digital transformation and talent development. We help businesses adopt digital technologies, and recruit highly skilled, diverse workforces capable of the innovation needed to thrive.

The Group also operates HOST - a technology hub and innovation centre in MediaCityUK that's focused on attracting digital tech businesses to accelerate their growth, delivering innovation services to start-ups, scale-ups, global corporate and government organisations. People, place, and culture drive everything we do and at the heart of our business is our commitment to diversity and inclusivity.

Our 3 pillars:
- Skills: To build local capabilities and capacity to address job demand. Skills City offers a unique approach to training in digital technologies.
- Innovation: To support innovation acceleration and to support the evolution of industry.
- Start-up: To enable local IP creation and innovation. HOST offers an integrated structure to harness innovation and support start-up success.

We have recently launched Skills City - a unique digital bootcamp campus that trains adult learners not in mainstream education and upskills employees into digital technology roles. At the centre of which is the commitment to removing the barriers presently impacting diversity and gender balance, D&I is our DNA.
The Skills City campus made up of six fast -track training academies across the breadth of technology disciplines. Aligned to our Skills City Campus is IN4.0 Talent, our recruitment business which works to provide clients a turnkey talent solution.

We are looking to hire a part time Contracts Manager to join our dynamic and professional team. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to play a key role in ensuring we are continually meeting contractual requirements.

The Role:

Your key responsibilities will consist of:
- Working with our internal teams to ensure a full understanding of contractual requirements and funder expectations.
- Working with our tech team and delivery partners to ensure our programmes, including our Skills City bootcamps, continually meet contractual requirements.
- Developing a risk register - reviewing and identifying key risks and creating mitigation plans.
- Monitoring and controlling contract performance and providing the Senior Management Team with regular feedback and updates.
- Taking the lead on completing monthly funder claim reports.
- Ensuring the highest standard of external project reporting, precisely detailing, and advising on project progress, key issues, completion date and costs.
- Ensuring the relevant commercial agreements are in place and regularly reviewed (for example, NDAs, supplier agreements).
- Maintaining impeccable audit records and data entry.
- Working collaboratively with our Group Finance Manager to manage contract budgets and future forecasting.
- Have oversight and maintain governance standards across funded programmes.
- Establish and implement data monitoring and reporting processes.

Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a contract's management role.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Experience of managing multiple contracts at once.
- Strategic thinking.
- Strong ability to build relationships and demonstrate confident interpersonal skills with colleagues at all levels.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organise and prioritise own time and workload.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to multitask.
- Excellent MS office suite skills.
- Meticulous attention to detail even in high pressure situations
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Desirable:
- A business or law related degree.

Interested? Get in touch to find out more and apply with your CV below