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Associate Project Manager (Higher Education)

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Lead construction and capital projects for higher education clients from inception through handover and closeout. Manage budgets, schedules, risks, governance, contracts, multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders. Build client relationships, support account growth, and contribute to bids, tenders, and proposals. Ensure projects meet programme, cost, quality, safety, risk, and commercial objectives across construction, refurbishment, fit-out, infrastructure, and estate development programmes.
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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description
 
We are seeking an experienced Associate Project Manager to join our team, supporting Higher Education clients across the UK. This role focuses on the delivery of construction, capital projects, refurbishment, fit-out, infrastructure, and estate development programmes.
 
The successful candidate will have a strong background in construction project management and experience delivering projects from initial planning and procurement through to construction, handover, and close out. You will be comfortable working within complex stakeholder environments and building trusted relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and project teams.
 
Alongside project delivery, you will manage multiple priorities, support client account growth, contribute to bid activities, and ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and commercially successfully. Experience working with Higher Education clients is highly desirable.
 
Role Accountabilities
  • Lead construction and capital projects for Higher Education clients from inception through to handover and close out.
  • Manage project budgets, programmes, risks, governance processes, and contract compliance requirements.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships, supporting account development and long-term partnerships.
  • Contribute to bid submissions, tender responses, and proposal development activities.
  • Drive high-quality project delivery, ensuring programme, cost, quality, and risk objectives are achieved.
Qualifications & Experience
  • Proven experience as a Project Manager within the construction or built environment sector.
  • Experience delivering capital projects, refurbishment, fit-out, infrastructure, or estate development schemes.
  • Strong client management, commercial awareness, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Experience managing complex projects within live operational environments.
  • Experience working with Higher Education clients is preferred.
  • Bid writing, tender management, or account management experience is desirable.
  • Experience delivering laboratory, research, or other specialist technical building projects would be advantageous.
Candidates should be able to demonstrate a successful track record in project management and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining excellent client service and commercial outcomes.
 
Ready to Apply?
 
If you have the construction project management expertise and stakeholder management skills to deliver successful projects for Higher Education clients, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today to join a team delivering impactful projects across the UK.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.





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