Project Manager - Codas

Oxfida (formerly Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford) is an AI R&D company based in Oxford, on a mission to harness AI to understand, predict, and manage risk, helping build a safer, more resilient society.

We sit at the intersection of academia and industry, working with Oxford's professors and researchers alongside commercial partners, and combining that expertise with real-world risk data at global scale to turn frontier research into AI that actually ships rather than just gets published.

Our work spans AI for insurance underwriting and claims, AI risk governance, privacy-preserving technologies for agentic AI, and quantum optimisation, alongside partnership projects on nature and supply chains and the emerging challenges nobody's solved yet.

We build AI products and solutions for insurers, businesses, and public-sector organisations worldwide, and run innovative research projects that push these technologies further, helping people make better decisions in an uncertain world.

Trusted AI. Built in Oxford.

CODAS is our multi-year sovereign AI research and development programme, bringing together specialist teams and external partners to advance privacy preserving AI, secure AI platforms and new commercial applications.

We're looking for dynamic, driven professionals to help us deliver this ambitious programme. You'll need strong credentials, a proactive approach and the confidence to bring clarity and momentum to complex, evolving work.

As the CODAS Project Manager, you will coordinate the day to day delivery of the programme across its four interconnected tracks. Working closely with the Programme Director, Track Leads, technical and research specialists, and programme support functions, you will bring structure, pace and discipline to delivery. You will help maintain the integrated programme plan, coordinate milestones and dependencies, manage programme track risks and actions, and ensure stakeholders have a clear and reliable view of progress.

• The day to day delivery of CODAS is coordinated effectively across four interconnected tracks, with agreed programme outcomes, milestones and deliverables translated into clear plans and managed effectively through to completion.
• The integrated programme plan brings together track level milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource requirements and target dates in one reliable view.
• Programme risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies are identified, managed and escalated promptly through the programme RAID log.
• Stakeholders across technical, research, commercial and operational audiences have a clear and reliable view of delivery progress through regular communications and reporting.
• Programme governance and change control, owned by the Programme Manager, are supported through track-level coordination and delivery input, enabling effective decision-making by the Programme Director and the Programme Steering Committee.
• Cross track dependencies and blockers are coordinated, with clear actions, owners and resolution dates, and material concerns escalated promptly.

• 3+ years' experience managing complex technical projects or programmes, ideally within a technology, data, AI or research and development environment.
• Proven experience managing delivery end to end, including mobilisation, planning, execution, governance, change control, and delivery reviews.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated delivery plans across multiple work streams, including milestones, dependencies, resources and delivery forecasts.
• Experience managing timelines, budgets, resource requirements, RAID logs, actions, decisions and stakeholder communications.
• Comfortable working across both defined contractual…