Jake Dunham
Project Manager Seeking Opportunities
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
About me
Intro
I’m a Project Manager with over 5 years of experience managing digital and technical projects from concept through to delivery. Over the past few years, I’ve worked in research and scientific environments, coordinating multiple teams, managing stakeholders, and making sure projects move forward in a structured and organised way. I enjoy bringing clarity to complex projects, keeping teams aligned, and turning ideas into practical outcomes. In my role at UKRI / STFC, I support a range of digital and operational initiatives. This included leading the development of the User Dashboard Project, a web platform designed to improve how visiting scientists interact with multiple different systems and research facilities in general. My role involved coordinating developers and operational teams, managing timelines and documentation, running stakeholder meetings, and ensuring the project stayed aligned with user needs - both internal and external. I’m particularly interested in roles where projects have a meaningful impact, whether that’s improving systems, creating better user experiences, or delivering complex programmes that require collaboration across different teams. I enjoy working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and pride myself on being organised, approachable, and calm under pressure. I’m always keen to learn and continue developing my project management skills, particularly in environments where projects are ambitious, collaborative and make a genuine difference.
Work experience
STFC
Oct 2020 - Present
6 years 1 month
Didcot, UK
Project Manager
Oct 2020 - Present
6 years 1 month
Didcot, UK
Job Responsibilities: Deliver digital solutions that improve operational efficiency and help visiting scientists use limited facility time effectively. Manage the delivery of small to medium-sized digital and software projects, supporting national scientific facilities and visiting researchers. Act as a central point of coordination between software developers, operational teams and end users, ensuring clarity of roles, priorities and deliverables. Lead project planning, scheduling and tracking, maintaining delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and risks throughout the project lifecycle using software such as MS Project, Jira and Excel. Gather, analyse and document business, technical and user requirements, translating them into clear specifications, supporting scope definition and change control. Prepare project documentation, status updates and governance reports, providing transparency for senior stakeholders and supporting public-sector compliance. Facilitate project meetings, capturing actions, decisions and follow-ups to maintain momentum and accountability across teams. Provide budget awareness and resource tracking, monitoring effort against agreed plans and highlighting & addressing variances. Contribute to quality assurance and delivery, including coordinating testing, gathering user feedback and ensuring outputs meet agreed standards. Support the team’s transition to Agile delivery, performing Product Owner responsibilities such as backlog management, prioritisation and ensuring delivery aligns with user value. Work across both Waterfall and Agile frameworks, successfully managing projects from inception to implementation. Drive continuous improvement of project management processes, refining templates, workflows and reporting structures to enhance efficiency.
Project Manager
Oct 2020 - Mar 2026
5 years 6 months
Didcot, UK
Education
Canterbury Christ Church University
Bachelor's degree, Business
2015 - 2018
2 years 11 months
Grade: 2:1
Licenses & certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Issued: Jun 2023
APM PMF
Issued: Mar 2017