Standard programme and project role definitions

Role Title

Role Purpose

Project team member

Works in a project team undertaking the technical work

Work-package manager

Leads a section working on a defined part of a project

Provides a range of general administrative support and assistance to a programme or a project

Establishes and maintains detailed and comprehensive project work plans for a large complex project

Assists a project manager in managing a large project by undertaking planning, communications, reporting and controlling activities

Junior project manager

Manages non-complex projects with few external interfaces and leads many of the project team members directly

Manages projects involving external suppliers and other organizational divisions through other managers and project team members

Delivers through other managers large or complex projects end to end involving several organizations and multiple disciplines, interfaces and suppliers

Manages a strategically important programme through a number of interrelated large projects and has responsibility for planning the benefits realization

Leads a support office team providing a range of planning and reporting services and implementing consistent best practice across large projects or strategic programmes

Sponsor

Owns the success of the programme or project, provides leadership and ensures that it delivers value