The University’s Strategic Plan – Towards the University of the Future establishes ambitious targets in research, internationalisation, and learning and teaching. To achieve these targets, the University is undertaking a number of initiatives. To support the delivery of projects to achieve strategic objectives, the University has established the UPMO.
The UPMO will oversee and provide project management support for key strategic and high value projects (the University portfolio) in order to deliver improved portfolio visibility, improved investment decision making and more coordinated project delivery across the University.
The UPMO will undertake a relationship management role to support Service Centres and other functions in delivering key strategic initiatives and projects. The UPMO will work collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure that delivery risks are appropriately controlled as far as possible in order to achieve project objectives.
The UPMO will provide standardised project management processes and frameworks, aligned to recognised project management quality standards and compliant with relevant University policies and procedures, in order to position projects for success and mitigate delivery risk.