Job Description

• The candidate will be project managing a Microsoft 365 implementation. The organisation will be working with implementation partners who will lead on the technical elements, but are looking for a project manager to coordinate resources to support the implementation partners, coordinate and join up a number of inter-dependent projects, and provide project assurance.
  • The current technology environment has technologies which are in need of upgrade, replacement or decommissioning to enable the delivery of a quality user experience. The current toolset presents several challenges to IT users when operating from inside the organisations offices or from home. Data is not always accessible, shareable or usable, and limits on the use of modern collaboration tools are hampering productivity.
  • The Microsoft 365 and Windows 10 ecosystem provides the answer to these challenges and presents the opportunity for several costly infrastructure building blocks to be removed from the estate. The current in-flight project to replace the ICT network will also address the challenges currently caused by an ageing and inconsistent network.
  • This requires immediate critical remedial work to its technology environment to enable these planned and in-flight projects to deliver these benefits within the agreed timescales.
  • They will be commencing a number of critical remediation projects in March '21 that will put the foundations in place for full implementation of M365 from August '21 onwards. Projects include for example remediation work to the organisations citrix environment and roll out of Teams for virtual meetings.
  • This work will be completed by an outsourced partner, but will need a project manager to work alongside them to ensure successful delivery.
  • Alongside this, the project manager will need to plan and prepare for Phase 2 of the work, which will include procurement of a migration / implementation partner to support with data migration to the platform (phase 2). They will also need to ensure coordination of a number of interdependent projects to ensure that all activity to support Microsoft 365 implementation is joined up, e.g. network refresh project and e-storage project.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities