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Project Management Roles and Responsibilities

Title	Role	Responsibility
Project sponsor	This is the person who has ultimate authority over the project. The Executive Sponsor provides project funding, resolves issues and scope changes, approves major deliverables and provides high-level direction. They also champion the project within their organization. Depending on the project and the organizational level of the Executive Sponsor, they may delegate day-to-day tactical management to a Project Sponsor.	·         Provides additional funds for scope changes      ·         Approves deliverables      ·         Securing budgets and ensuring appropriate financial controls are in place      ·         Appointing the project management team including other members of the Project Board      ·         Advocating the project both internally and externally      ·         Supporting the project manager to successfully deliver the project
Project manager	The Project Manager runs the project from day to day on behalf of the Project Sponsor. The Project Manager ensures that the project deliverables are of the required quality, i.e. are capable of delivering the benefits defined in the business case, and produced within the agreed time and cost.	·         Directing the project team      ·         Managing the project plan      ·         Maintaining the risk register, issue and change control logs      ·         Reporting on progress to the Project Sponsor and other stakeholders Working closely with users to ensure the project meets business needs.      ·         Definition and management of the User Acceptance Testing programme.      ·         Identifying user training needs and devising and managing user training programmes.      ·         Providing regular status reports to the IPSC Programme Board.
Project Board	The Project Board provides direction and management for the project.  The Project Board is the overall authority for the project and is accountable for its success or failure. Members must have sufficient authority to carry out their responsibilities effectively.	·         Accepting and demonstrating ownership for the project      ·         Working as a team to provide collective and unified direction      ·         Effective delegation with appropriate project tolerances and exception management processes      ·         Facilitating cross functional working ensuring that the project structure is recognised and respected by line management      ·         Committing all of the resources required to successfully complete the project       ·         Effective decision making including risk, issue and change management       ·         Project assurance and quality control       ·         Ensuring timely and effective communication within the project and with external stakeholders      ·         Ensuring that the project deliverables are reliable, sustainable and can be maintained efficiently
Senior Supplier	The Senior Supplier is responsible for managing supplier side input to the project.	Ensuring project plans, proposals and specifications are feasible and realistic Committing supplier resources and ensuring any divergence from budgeted supplier costs is appropriately managed Ensuring the quality of the project deliverables and the overall technical integrity of the project Ensuring that the project deliverables are reliable, appropriately integrated and can be maintained efficiently
Project Team	The project team consists of the full-time and part-time resources assigned to work on the deliverables of the project. This includes the analysts, designers, programmers, etc.	·         Understanding the work to be completed      ·         Planning the assigned activities in more detail if needed      ·         Completing assigned work within the budget, timeline and quality expectations      ·         Informing the project manager of issues, scope changes, risk and quality concerns      ·         Proactively communicating status and managing expectations
Programme Manager	The Programme Manager is responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of the programme, and develops and maintains the programme environment to support each individual project within it.	·         Overall management and co-ordination of the programme of projects.      ·         Contributing to strategy, policy and procedure.      ·         Management of supplier/contractual relationships.
Systems Developer	To work with the Project Manager on defining and Executing development requirements.	• Interfaces with other systems. • Reporting configuration and deployment. • Set up and maintenance of security rights and access permissions. • Contributing to technical strategy, policy and procedure.