Elements and Performance Criteria
- Consider the need and scope for the project/ strategy
- In considering the need for the project or strategy, review the extent to which existing initiatives and services already address needs and issues, and incorporate results into scoping report
- Clearly articulate to key stakeholders the rationale and underpinning values and beliefs for the proposed project or strategy, and seek their views and involvement as appropriate
- Develop a concept plan and submit to decision-makers for consideration and approval prior to proceeding to the project plan stage
- Prepare a project plan
- a set of aims and specific and assessable objectives which address identified needs
- a proposed timetable for the project/strategy
- financial costs of project/strategy and relationship with available resources
- benefits to client of the proposed project/ strategy
- Ensure plan takes account of anticipated context and specific nature of people who will be involved in developing and implementing the project/strategy
- Undertake an appropriate level of consultation with all contributors to proposed project/strategy and report their views clearly and accurately
- Negotiate aspects of the plan with relevant people as required
- Identify and acquire resources to make implementation of project plan possible
- Develop funding options for implementing the plan
- Where resources are not available, submit funding proposals to relevant bodies as appropriate
- Make funding submissions in accordance with any guidelines available from funding bodies and written in a format acceptable to decision-makers
- Undertake appropriate liaison and negotiation with decision-makers and potential funding bodies to advance the case to acquire resources
- Promote and advertise project/strategy
- Manage implementation of project/strategy
- Support those involved in implementing the project or strategy to establish and maintain clarity about the aim and objectives to be pursued
- Clearly and appropriately convey logistical details to those implementing the project/strategy, including time scales, place, resources, staffing, limits and administrative procedures relating to income and expenditure
- Establish, monitor and regularly review, policies and procedures to manage the use of staff, equipment and other physical assets
- Develop project budget and monitor expenditure and resources against budget, in line with organisation policies, procedures and planned time scales
- Identify risks associated with implementing the project or strategy and take steps to maximise high quality project outcomes
- Implement strategies to ensure project/strategy is implemented in line with relevant guidelines and legal requirements and is sufficiently flexible to suit a variety of contexts and to cope with contingencies
- Implement strategies to ensure project or strategy is adapted in the light of feedback, and to take account of changing social, political and economic contexts
- Evaluate and report on project/strategy
- In choosing an evaluation strategy, examine a variety of models
- Ensure the evaluation strategy employs appropriate techniques to collect data, taking into account the nature of information, time and resource constraints and views of people and groups who have a stake and interest
- Regularly monitor implementation of the project or strategy against the agreed plan
- Ensure collection, collation and reporting of evaluation information meets standards and needs of decision-makers, funding agencies and other people and groups with a stake in the project/ strategy
- Use evaluation information collected to revise project/strategy, and to guide ongoing development and implementation and possible future directions