At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and coordinate the go-live of a Student System across various workstreams.
- Company: Partnering with a prestigious University to enhance student systems.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible contract, and opportunity for impactful work.
- Other info: Onsite presence required twice a month; 6-month contract with ASAP start.
- Why this job: Make a difference in higher education by managing complex projects.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and strong understanding of higher education systems.
Gravitas are currently partnering with a University that is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the integrated ecosystem readiness of their Student System go‑live.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate ecosystem readiness across business, technical, operational, integration, and testing workstreams.
- Ensure alignment across workstreams and manage key dependencies.
- Review programme deliverables, identifying and addressing operational gaps, risks, and issues.
- Oversee end‑to‑end testing readiness, validation, and sign‑off from both technical and business perspectives.
- Manage integration scope, including system interfaces, connections, and business process integration.
- Ensure business processes are fully integrated and tested across the wider ecosystem.
- Engage with project teams, workstream leads, stakeholders, and boards, providing regular updates and assurance.
- Produce accurate reporting and support governance activities.
- Manage, mitigate, and escalatte programme risks and issues as required.
- Support delivery in a complex, time‑critical environment where delays are not an option.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong Higher Education background
- Strong project management experience within large‑scale programmes.
- Ability to lead cross‑functional activities spanning business, technical, operational, and integration domains.
- Experience managing complex dependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Strong understanding of readiness and go‑live planning.
- Experience validating testing activities and ensuring alignment with end‑to‑end testing cycles.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior leaders and governance boards.
- Proven risk and issue management capabilities.
- Experience working across both technical and business teams
- Contract details
- ASAP start date (can wait until the end of July for the right person)
- Outside IR35
- Onsite presence required twice a month
- 6 month contract
If this role could be of interest, please apply or alternatively, you can reach out to Karla Farrar directly on Linked In or email and she will be in touch as soon as possible.
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