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Project Manager (Student Record System Experience)

City of London Temporary £600 - £650 per day View Job Description
Project Manager (Student Record Systems Transformation Programme) 6 months (initial), the role is paying: £600-650 per day excluding VAT. The role is OUTSIDE IR35.
  • £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)
Contact
Hassan Abdullah
Quote job ref
JN-052025-6747549
Phone number
+44 207 269 2216

Job summary

Job function
Technology
Subsector
IT Management
Sector
Not For Profit
Location
City of London
Contract type
Temporary
Consultant name
Hassan Abdullah
Consultant phone
+44 207 269 2216
Job reference
JN-052025-6747549