Consultant - Delivery

• Lead delivery workstreams, project components or small-to-medium projects across transformation programmes
• Define delivery plans, milestones and governance
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions
• Maintain delivery reporting and governance
• Support mobilisation, testing, transition and go-live activity
• Escalate delivery risks early with clear recommendations
• Establish appropriate governance for each engagement
• Maintain RAID, dependency and decision logs
• Produce reporting for steering groups and project boards
• Support discovery and mobilisation activities
• Translate partner needs into practical delivery plans and roadmaps
• Build trusted relationships across partner organisations
• Work with sponsors, Heads of Service and workstream leads
• Facilitate workshops and planning sessions
• Present delivery options and recommendations
• Provide constructive challenge where required
• Manage delivery within agreed commercial parameters
• Support forecasting and resource planning
• Contribute to Statements of Work and proposals
• Identify opportunities for additional value and support account growth
• Coach Consultants and Analysts
• Review delivery outputs
• Support development of delivery capability
• Improve delivery methodologies and share lessons learned
• Support recruitment, capability development and continuous improvement across the Delivery practice

Requirements

• Strong experience in project delivery, programme delivery, transformation delivery or consulting roles
• Experience leading workstreams, project components or small-to-medium projects in complex environments
• Strong practical understanding of project governance, planning, reporting, RAID management, dependency management and escalation handling
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and translating delivery issues into clear recommendations and decisions
• Experience operating in multi-party delivery environments involving clients, internal teams, suppliers or implementation partners
• Experience supporting or leading mobilisation, discovery, delivery recovery or structured planning activity
• Strong commercial awareness, including understanding of scope, assumptions, effort, forecasting, change control and delivery risk
• Experience coaching, coordinating or supporting the work of other delivery colleagues
• Excellent written, verbal and facilitation skills
• Strong analytical, organisational and structured problem-solving capability
• Experience within higher education (desirable)
• Experience working on student systems, ERP, CRM, data, organisational transformation or major business change programmes (desirable)
• Experience working with major student systems providers, implementation partners or strategic suppliers (desirable)
• Experience in a consultancy or professional services environment (desirable)
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, statements of work or account development (desirable)
• Experience managing associate or subcontractor delivery models (desirable)
• Knowledge of university operating models, governance and the student lifecycle (desirable)
• Familiarity with public sector or higher education procurement environments (desirable)
• Relevant project or programme management qualifications or training, such as PRINCE2, MSP, AgilePM, APM or equivalent practical experience (desirable)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong project delivery capabilities, including governance, planning, and risk management, while effectively translating stakeholder needs into actionable plans. Proven ability to coach teams and improve delivery methodologies in complex environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Project Delivery
• Governance Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Commercial Awareness

ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills

• RAID Management
• Dependency Management
• Delivery Planning
• Risk Management
• Reporting
• Transformation Delivery
• Structured Planning
• Delivery Recovery
• Proposal Development
• Forecasting

Soft Skills

• Facilitation Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Problem-Solving Skills
• Communication Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• PRINCE2
• MSP
• AgilePM
• APM

Industry Keywords

• Higher Education
• Student Systems
• ERP
• CRM
• Organizational Transformation
• Consultancy
• Professional Services
• Public Sector Procurement