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Kapadia Bhavin

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Manager

The Project Manager will drive the project forward from the implementation stage to completion and will be responsible for
• preparing the detailed project management plan from Stage 3 onwards;
• identifying risks and planning their management/mitigation;
• ensuring the project’s overall objectives, targets at various key stages, and individuals’ responsibilities are clearly understood by all concerned;
• monitoring performance against the plan;
• highlighting areas of slippage and identifying/initiating corrective action;
• arranging meetings with the independent reviewer at key stages and preparing summary progress reports prior to each meeting;
• ensuring appropriate communication between the members of the project team and other project stakeholders including, where appropriate, the end users;
• ensuring that the project complies with all appropriate University procedures and regulations, e.g. personnel, financial and procurement etc.

Project Team

The Project Manager will generally be supported by a Project Team. Depending on the nature of the project, the Project Team will be appointed either by the relevant committee/senior management/Head of School/project Budget Holder as appropriate. The size and composition of the team will vary according to the nature and complexity of the project but will generally consist of those directly involved in implementing various parts of the project.

Independent Reviewer

The Independent Reviewer is appointed from within the University by the project’s ‘internal sponsor’ e.g. relevant University committee, senior management etc. The reviewer will normally be identified, and become involved in the project, towards the end of Stage 2 of the process. He/she is required:
• to take a broad and independent view of the progress of the project;
• to decide at the end of each review meeting whether sufficient evidence has been...