Project Capability Workstream Lead

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

The Capability Workstream Lead is a senior delivery and functional leadership role with strategic delivery accountability for an entire defined capability of the Student Record Systems (SRS) implementation programme. The role leads complex workstream delivery, manages cross-functional dependencies, and ensures that system, process, and organisational change is delivered effectively, compliantly, and at pace.

This is a key post that will contribute to the ambitions of the University’s Student Record Systems implementation programme ensuring aspects of the projects strategic priorities are implemented effectively.

Operating as part of the Programme Leadership Team, the role holds end-to-end accountability for capability workstream outcomes including system design, process transformation, data readiness and organisational adoption. You will be responsible for setting direction, determining priorities, allocating work and assuring quality across their workstream, with direct responsibility for supervising and leading Junior Business Analysts and assigned workstream resources on a day-to-day basis.

You will work in close partnership with senior academic leaders, professional services heads and enabling workstream leads, shaping how the University operates in a post-implementation environment.

You will be accountable for delivery defined areas of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), ensuring workstream requirements are prioritised, validated, and aligned to project objectives. Leading colleagues and (BAU) business as usual teams (both professional services and academics) to prepare for changes, understand new processes, and embed updated ways of working.

While we welcome external interest, internal applications will be prioritised.

As part of the University’s ongoing commitment to redeployment, please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any stage of the recruitment process if a suitable redeployee is identified.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Hannah McAuliffe, Programme Manager at Hannah.McAuliffe@edgehill.ac.uk

As Project Capability Workstream Lead, you will have:

• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, excellent planning, communication, negotiation and influencing skills 
• The ability and understanding of project delivery methodologies to make strategic delivery decisions, balancing competing institutional priorities and managing significant operational and regulatory risk
• Ability to understand and document business processes and identify impacts of change.
• Experience in the delivery of complex projects or systems implementations in a structured environment and in supporting testing, data, or change activities in a project context.
• Experience of making prioritisation and delivery decisions in environments with competing stakeholder demands and in exercising judgement and making delivery decisions.
• Experience in leading process change, improvement initiatives or operational redesign.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

• A minimum of 38 days annual leave per annum, (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and health & wellbeing resources
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.