• Effectively manage and resolve any conflicts escalated by the programme team or senior stakeholders; • Ensure detailed management of programme risks and, using own knowledge and experience, identify potential risks from similar programmes to ensure risk avoidance or early and effective mitigation; • Have direct/matrix line management for key programme staff including the technical Project Managers, Programme IT Architect and other key members of the Programme team, and overall responsibility for the performance and wellbeing of the staff who report in a matrix manner to these leads, as appropriate. Main Duties • The Deputy Transformation Programme Director will take personal responsibility for delivering and driving forward a comprehensive programme plan for the StARS Programme, working with stakeholders to ensure that the required resources are available to deliver the programme, resolving any conflicts that may arise and ensuring the programme remains on track to deliver on time and on budget.
Job Description
This will involve:
Job Summary StARS is a major change programme that will transform many aspects of student administration for the benefit of staff and students alike. It represents a major step towards improving persistent challenges in the student experience. The Deputy Transformation Programme Director, working with the Transformation Programme Director, is responsible for leadership, development and delivery of the programme through effective collaboration and management, and driving a comprehensive programme plan. This will require close working with numerous stakeholders across the University as well as the supplier, Ellucian, and ensuring effective leadership and management of the diverse programme team to deliver the transformational change required.
• Inspiring confidence in and working closely with StARS programme team members, project sponsors, the wider-University community and other stakeholders as required; • Understanding the operational and strategic needs of the University and translating these into a programme plan; defining tasks, timelines, goals, deliverables and milestones across all phases of the programme, including procurement, sign off, implementation, training, release and post release. This will also require close working with the supplier and external consultants as required to fully understand the implementation challenges; • Working closely with colleagues supporting other business change and/or IT change programmes within the University to ensure that dependencies/inter-dependencies are well understood and that respective project plans are aligned to minimise risk and cost; • Leading University aspects of the successful delivery of the cloud migration and reconciling to a on premise business as usual environment with a release to agreed programmes milestones and review points;
The StARS Deputy Transformation Programme Director will:
• be responsible for planning, monitoring and delivering the overall programme, to include tracking progress and taking any corrective action to ensure successful delivery, working with, plus holding to account, the supplier, leading the programme team and collaborating with colleagues across the wider-University to ensure that the required resources are available for the programme;
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