Strategic Projects Office

What we do

The Strategic Projects Office (SPO) lead and inspire change and continuous improvement, managing projects and supporting others to deliver projects, in order to achieve the University’s Strategic Plan.

The Strategic Projects Office supports you by:

• Providing training, support, mentoring and encouragement
• Facilitating collaborative working both across the University and externally
• Providing project management and review services to department, professional services and faculties
• Setting project standards and project governance
• Supporting the University in project proritisation and monitoring for projects within the Strategic Project Portfolio

We can help you with

• Developing Project ideas (.pdf, Essex users only)
• Completing Project Management Framework documentation and preparing for project committees
• Collaborating with other project managers through our Project Managers Network
• Identifying and using the appropriate tools (.pdf, Essex users only) to support the development of your project
• Running Lean and Process Reviews for both strategic and local projects
• Identifying opportunities to use SUMS consultancy to support you in providing insight and recommendations to address challenges and new project ideas