Role: Location: Columbia, SC (Onsite or Remote) Duration: Full Time //Long time Contract Contractor’s candidate(s) must:
Contractor must have lead on at least three (3) previous ERP implementations in higher education, preferably with Oracle PeopleSoft
Contractor must have a minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience
Contractor must be a certified project manager (PMI)
Demonstrated experience creating a detailed dependency-driven schedules of the hundreds of tasks required to implement the selected ERP software.
Demonstrated experience creating and/or working with methodologies of providing an early warning system to alert project teams when critical path project tasks may be in jeopardy
Demonstrated experience facilitating and supporting formal review sessions with executive stakeholders when determined to be necessary by the project leadership team
Ability to provide leadership and organizational change coaching sessions with project team leaders and others when needed
Tasks:
Create a detailed dependency-driven schedule of the hundreds of tasks required to implement the selected ERP software, updated on a daily or weekly basis depending on the needs of the project
Help create a mechanism for obtaining and distributing weekly updates from all project teams, and weekly status reports of progress against schedule
Monitor and escalate to Universities management when critical path project tasks may be in jeopardy
Support for regularly scheduled meetings of the implementation team, advisory team, and various project sub-teams up to and including scheduling, agenda setting, documentation of meeting minutes and action items, and inclusion of action items in the project implementation plan
Create monthly narrative report of project progress, concerns, and recommended courses of action;
Contribute to monthly executive dashboard reports showing progress against schedule and progress against budget
Facilitate and support formal review sessions with executive stakeholders when determined to be necessary by the project leadership team
Provide leadership and organizational change coaching sessions with project team leaders and others when needed
Provide training of project team meeting skills, decision-making skills, problems solving skills, and consensus building skills, as needed
Guidance and assistance in regard to the development of the Universities’ project communication plan, and support and tracking of the communication plan once executed
Facilitation of problem-solving sessions, teambuilding sessions, and other organizational development interventions as needed, to improve the effectiveness of the project implementation
