Project Manager (Student Record System Experience)

• £600-£650 Per Day (OUTSIDE IR35)
• 6 Months Contract with possible extension

About Our Client

My client is a well established university who are looking for a experience Project Manager. The client is looking to implmentent a new Student Record System. The role will be a 6 months contract with the possibility of extension.

Job Description

Your New Role:

• You will formally manages the clients capabilities and treats these as projects.
• Sets-up key meetings e.g stand-ups, retrospectives, demos and leads these sessions.
• Works closely with the supplier to ensure the kickoff, alignment sessions and other workshops run smoothly.
• Work closely with SMEs and other core programme team members to ensure that deliverables are on time, to budget to a high quality.
• Work with the Business Analysts to ensure that the adopt not adapt principle is closely followed and that requirements are only mapped where needed to do so e.g a compliance area.
• Work closely with the existing Project Manager and Programme Manager to help work to the overall implementation plan, set-up work packages in JIRA and communicate any issues to key deliverables.
• Actively resolve issues at ground level with key stakeholders.
• Present updates and reports at the monthly programme board and feel comfortable attending stakeholder wide briefings to actively discuss and communicate the programme context & answer any stakeholder questions.

You will cover & be responsible the following area's of the programme

• Stakeholder engagement
• Governance Compliance:
• Communication and Reporting
• Risk and Issue Management
• Workshop and Meeting Facilitation
• Programme Documentation
• Financial Tracking and Budgeting
• Change Management Expertise

The Successful Applicant

What you need to be successful:

Must haves:

• Agile with scrum and Prince2 qualifications and experience
• Must have Higher Education experience
• Experience of Long-term, complex, fast paced transformation programme experience
• Ability to lead multiple capabilities/projects in parallel
• Proactive ability to identify, raise and help mitigate and resolve risks and issues
• Empathetic attitude towards SMEs and other stakeholders
• Knowledge and experience of change management and cultural change impact
• experience of working with subject matter experts in cross functional teams
• experience of working in an organisation with a maturing change.
• Experience working in a fast paced environment and have worked with technical suppliers on large scale delivery programmes and/or projects

Should haves:

• Knowledge and experience of core student records system e.g SITS and Banner.
• Technical implementation experience with other systems is sufficient e.g Agresso

What's on Offer

What you get in return:

• £600-650 Per Day (OUTSIDE IR35)
• 6 Months Contract (Possibility of extension)