Responsibilities:

• Creation and management of project RAID logs (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies)
• Ensure creation and adherence to governance principles
• Ensure full and continuous communication happens with all stakeholders
• Overall responsibility for managing process redesign
• Oversee, add value, challenge, and approve workstream process redesign
• Regular meetings with workstream leads and department heads to ensure communication and direction/progress are on track
• Coordinate fortnightly and monthly sponsor meeting with Executive sponsor
• Attend fortnightly / monthly Executive leadership team meeting to brief
• Ownership of forecast model – updating timelines to be always current and responsible for managing costings / financial forecast
• Ensure that overall project design is documented and signed off by all stakeholders
• Manage the overall testing environment to ensure successful transfer of data
• Pay particular attention to identify complicated multi departmental areas and ensure efficient design, sign off and implementation of multi departmental processes (E.g., student billing from Registrars and Financial Aid with Student Life)
• Oversee workstreams to ensure efficient design and implementation of multi departmental processes (E.g., student billing from Registrars and Financial Aid with Student Life)
• Ensure overall sufficient training and documentation to ensure each department has resilience in maintaining operations after migration is complete
• Mange the overall training program to ensure all personnel are suitably trained in the new product.
• Review, oversee and challenge workstream lead assessment of systems rationalizations (Papersave, Coursedog, Slate, Simplicity etc)
• Continually include all other ancillary systems to ensure global buy in and opportunities for synergies – Blackboard, Blackbaud and Slate
• Manage grandfathering of current Blackbaud operations and ensure all necessary arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of operation of ceased support Blackbaud for the 2 years until migration
• Ensure all historical data on Blackbaud and other systems is considered, and arrangements made for necessary data storage and transfer into Jenzabar

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Masters ideally
• Have a minimum of 3-5 years management of medium sized project team (workstream leads)
• Finance experience, preferably an accountant with multi years’ experience implementing systems
• Proven experience with system implementation
• Proven experience managing process documentation and redesign with continual improvement
• System implementation experience, particularly around ERPs