Change
Purpose
The Change team supports the University in achieving its strategic aims of
excellence in education and research by facilitating and promoting effective
change and project management within the University. The team does this by:
- supporting the development of the University’s
Strategic Plan
and its underpinning institutional, supporting and sub-
strategies, to ensure effective co-ordination across the Plan
and these strategies;
- supporting the implementation of identified projects
identified by the Project Co-ordination Group and/or the
University Steering Group as arising from the Strategic Plan and
its underpinning strategies, and ensuring synthesis across
different strands of activity;
- supporting the Project
Co-ordination Group in overseeing and co-ordinating major
change projects that are undertaken within the University; and
- developing the University’s capacity for the effective
management of change projects by ensuring that effective
training, support and
guidance is available for staff across the University
engaged in project management and process review.
Function
In support of its stated purpose, the Change team’s activities include:
- supporting the development of the
Strategic Plan,
and institutional, supporting and sub-strategies, in order to
ensure alignment and co-ordination across strategies;
- providing committee support for
Project Co-ordination Group
(PCG) and its sub-groups (including co-ordinating regular
reports to PCG on the progress of approved projects, and an
overview of generic project progress and project management
issues);
- maintaining a
register of approved and active change projects and their
status.
- project-managing specific strategic and change projects as
directed by University Steering Group and PCG;
- facilitating the University’s
Project Managers Network,
which provides colleagues with the opportunity to share
experience and knowledge of change and project management;
- working with Learning Development
to provide formal training opportunities in change and project
management (these are under development and will be available by
the summer term 2013);
- developing and maintaining a
project management
toolkit (a scalable approach that can be applied to projects
of different sizes and natures) that can be used across the
University; and
- developing and maintaining a business process review toolkit
(a scalable approach that can be applied to reviews of different
sizes and natures) that can be used across the University (this
toolkit is under development and will be available in summer
2013).