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Specific Responsibilities of the Project Sponsor / Project Director
October 26, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Stakeholder Management
Specific Responsibilities of the Project Sponsor / Project Director
By The Office of Government Commerce - OGC, UK
The Project Sponsor/Project Director is responsible for:
- Ensuring an appropriate project or programme management framework is in place, incorporating the Gateway review process if required.
- Preparing the project brief, Project Initiation Document (or equivalent) and business case
- Appraising options and submitting for approval
- Securing resources and expertise from the client organisation as required, for example, appointing professional advisers to support the project sponsor role
- Co-ordinating and directing end user input
- Co-ordinating value management strategy
- Controlling changes following approval
- Determining and managing risks to the project
- Managing the project budget, including risk allowance
- Acting as sole point of contact with project manager
- Co-ordinating and fostering teamwork
- Managing the project manager’s performance of delegated responsibility
- Establishing formal reporting arrangements on project progress
- Defining criteria for control and management of the project
- Assisting the project manager in the resolution of problems
- Receiving and reviewing detailed reports on the project from the project manager
- Ensuring the project manager receives departmental decisions on time
- Establishing with the project manager a common approach to major issues that arise
- Establishing a mechanism to ensure regular dialogue with contractors to promote problem solving, teamworking and risk-sharing
Successful delivery toolkit, the Office of Government Commerce - © Crown Copyright 2008
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