25 Mar
Oracle Project Management Consultant
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- 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
- 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
Vacancy expired!