View from Ira Allen overlooking Lake Champlain

We are excited to be launching the new University Project Management Office!

We help to continuously improve the University of Vermont by managing a limited selection of high-priority, high-impact University Projects with multiple stakeholders across the university.

University Projects are selected to help enable student, faculty, and staff success by ensuring that UVM has modern, shared systems and resources available to them.

Projects will support the Strategic Vision for UVM and help:

  • Improve student success and experience
  • Support our distinctive research
  • Advance our land-grant mission

Type of Projects:

  • Business Improvement
  • Service Development
  • Product/Resource development
  • IT/System infrastructure improvement

Approved Projects:

We are prioritizing Digital Transformation (Dx) as a framework for a set of projects. The table below depicts the initial set of projects that have been approved for management by UPMO.

Project NameSponsoring Unit Project CategoryProject PhaseProject Objectives
Unified Reporting and CommunicationSafety & ComplianceIT/System infrastructure improvementDevelop/Build
  • To simplify and unify a large array of varied and potentially confusing reporting mechanisms ranging from student conduct to sexual violence to bias reporting and replace a variety of reporting tools and forms with a singular, centralized, mobile-friendly resource
HCM Replacement and ERP Modernization ProjectHR / Div of Finance / ETSIT/System infrastructure
improvement
Initiation
  • Review and documentation of current HR workflows and system requirements to enable the evaluation and selection of a new HCM software
Kronos Expansion ProjectHRIT/System infrastructure improvementPlanning
  • To ensure compliance with federal and state compensation statutes and collective bargaining agreements
  • Expand the use of Kronos time-keeping system for all non-exempt employees
System Access as SeparationETSBusiness ImprovementInitiation
  • Identify a comprehensive list of the types of affiliates that have system access through a UVM NetID
  • Define the level of access and considerations for each type
  • Define the current process for restricting access at separation; and
  • Make recommendations for improving this process when appropriate.
Campus Display ManagementStrategic Communications / Student LifeIT/System infrastructure improvementDevelop/Build
  • Adopt a campus-wide enterprise technology platform for informational digital displays.  To enable individual units to control display messaging while also enabling strategic communications to enlist displays for campus-wide messaging and (during emergencies) allow emergency management and public safety teams to push important safety messaging to the displays
Modern Campus ImplementationNon-Cred RegistrarIT/System infrastructure
improvement
Planning
  • Implement the new Non-Credit Enrollment System