Location: SAMS, Oban
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time (37 hours per week)
Salary Range: £29,619 - £39,745 per annum
Closing date: 18th September 2023
The Role
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our innovative Enterprise team. The post will encompass an interesting and varied workload including the management and delivery of our seaweed projects and services, CPD training courses in our Seaweed Academy, oversee our commercial seaweed nursery activity and provide consultancy to commercial clients, national and local government and NGOs. Applicants will ideally have a scientific background in macroalgae.
You will report into and work alongside an experienced and dedicated project management and business development team. Training and guidance will be provided, where required.
In return, we offer an attractive salary package as well as the opportunity for further professional development through mentoring, training and peer support.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a motivated and confident individual with excellent communication and organisational skills who enjoys a varied workload, a challenge and who will also be an excellent additional to our training academy.
You will be educated to postgraduate (MSc and above) level in seaweed/marine/environmental sciences with some relevant work experience as a project manager/consultant where you will have utilised your experience to carry out marine environmental consultancy duties, some training delivery and project management. A good knowledge of seaweed algal cultivation is vital.
Employee Benefits
Our employees are the heart of our business. Recruiting and retaining the right people is the key to our success. Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our employment package and we have a wide range of benefits on offer to staff. These can enhance your personal and professional development, your health and well-being and your finances.
Additionally, SAMS encourages and recognises excellence among staff through various recognition and reward arrangements. We constantly develop and expand the benefits and offers for our colleagues.
SAMS offers a generous salary and pension as well as employee benefits package. We also have supportive policies to assist absence, family and other leave types.
Interested?
We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to Mike Spain mike.spain@sams-enterprise.com
Applications must include CV and Cover Letter and should be sent electronically to recruitment@sams.ac.uk quoting Job Ref. 'D27/23.MH’ in the subject heading.
Closing date for application is 18th September 2023. Interviews will be held by early October 2023.
*All candidates must have the rights to work in the UK already in place.*
Full details on this vacancy can be found here: Seaweed Consultant / Project Manager - Job Description