I am a desk-based science researcher at a university. I may be offered a 40%FTE role over 5 years doing "project management".
I may literally be the one who takes their results and writes them up for publication, but there will be some quarterly and annual reporting to funder duties, too, and just keeping tabs on what everyone is doing. Probably little planning for them, but helping them plan and write protocols maybe.
I thought to negotiate that as part of CPD (they have a budget to spend), I could get a PM qualification while in this role. But I'm not sure which qualftn, since Prince2 looks like bad fit. Academics are feral. I'll have no power to make colleagues keep me updated, charm will be the way forward, actually. None of us want admin burdens beyond what the science requires or the reporting (lots) that funder will ask for. The grant is not one project from start to finish, it's multiple strands of research some of which are meant to only get developed later.
I was looking at Agile & Scrum and PMQ... would any of those or any other PM qualifications be useful in the kind of environment I'm describing?
thanks in advance.