The Student Services Change Champions and Ambassadors, from left, Tina Brander, Kirsty Stewart, Lesley Sinclair, Keith Mackle and Graham Nicholson.
We visited Student Services to find out more about their roles as Change Champions and Ambassadors for the BT Programme and what they’re looking forward to most about the new OneUniversity solution.
Who?
Student Services Change Champions Tina Brander – Student Records, Fees, and Module Assessment Officer and Kirsty Stewart – Immigration Compliance Manager. Student Services Change Ambassadors Keith Mackle, Assistant Director; Graham Nicholson, Director of Student Services and Lesley Sinclair, Director of Registry
How are you involved in the Programme?
As Change Champions for Student Services we take a very active role, attending all meetings and training sessions provided by the Business Transformation team.
We work closely with our Change Ambassadors, helping to identify key users and raise awareness of the change programme in our Student Services colleagues and communicate updates and act as a liaison between Student Services and the Programme team.
We try to ensure that key users are included in all relevant training sessions. We do our best to answer any queries they might have ourselves or let them have the relevant contact at BT.
We have introduced ourselves to all staff in Student Services, keeping in regular contact with them via email and gave a presentation at our last Away Day. We took the opportunity to explain more about our role as Change Champions and provided an update on how the Finance and Procurement system would affect us all.
As Change Champions we have also arranged a series of informal briefing sessions with Student Services staff and Angela Hamilton from BT. This was very well attended and received very positive feedback. These sessions let staff see how the system will look and provided an opportunity for them to ask Angela, the Ambassadors, Change Champions and Key Users any questions that they had.
What excites you about the new OneUniversity solution?
Having attended the early demonstration days we were the first to have the opportunity to see what the system can do. It looks good, it’s very easy to navigate and we think it will improve our students’ experience as well as making things more accessible for staff.
What three actions will ensure a successful implementation?
Consultation, engagement and communication.
What three things do you want to tell people about the Programme?
That as an integrated system it is:
1. accessible anywhere,
2. easy to navigate,
3. user friendly and it will work for the better.
That’s four things so it’s probably just as well we don’t work in Finance!
What is the first thing you will do when you use the new Student solution?
Celebrate! Log in!