Project Management and Consultancy Services

HES is currently the Project Management Partner for two large Collaborative Workplace Productivity Projects funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training (DEST) in conjunction with lead universities, being the University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University respectively. HES developed the successful submissions on behalf of each lead university in 2006, which resulted in grants of $6.1 million and $2.1 million over the next three years. There are 29 participating universities in a national procurement benchmarking programme and 17 in a Human Resources Electronic Information Management Project.

HES has highly skilled staff with a combined experience of over 20 years in Research Administration and research management systems. HES provides project management/consultancy services in the area of research systems implementation and support of research management business processes. Staff from HES have been involved in successful implementations of:

• Callista Research
• InfoEd eRA

Cancer Institute of NSW

HES's most recent consultancy has been with the Cancer Institute NSW (CINSW) centred on the implementation of the InfoEd Human Ethics module and procurement of the Clinical Trials and Grants/Contracts modules. HES has successfully partnered with the Cancer Institute to work hands on with all aspects of a large scale research management system implementation. HES has provided services in:

• Business case justification
• Procurement process support
• Requirements gathering and documentation
• Review and documentation of business processes and workflow, providing advice on areas for process improvement
• Management of data mapping, transformation and translation functions to facilitate data migration
• Mapping of processes to InfoEd functionality
• Detailed configuration of the InfoEd system to meet business process requirements
• Assistance with implementation of change management as a result of new technology and processes
• Development of User Acceptance Testing material
• Preparation of end user training material
• Overall project management support

HES staff have helped ensure continuity of the Cancer Institute InfoEd project by working in close partnership with both CINSW and InfoEd staff to realise a shared ideal - providing better administrative support to researchers.