Team Leader Job Specification
The Team/Project Leader is mainly responsible for any activities which
contribute to meeting the team deliverables and promoting them to ensure
uptake within the industry. The responsibilities can be broken out as:
Team Leader
Responsibilities:
• Deliver the agreed roadmap items.
• Identify the deliverables and schedule
• Monitor progress and manage risks to and recovery of any schedule
slippages
• Owner and principal editor for the team charter including oversight
of any sub-team charters.
• Coordinate and run regular initiative level operational review
meetings on team work
• Manage the new work item and change control process and be the main
team representative(s) to the TM Forum Change Control Group, (CCG).
• Manage team members and work commitments
• Work with TM Forum staff to
1. define roles and staffing needs, and to reach commitment on
staffing and deliverables.
2. Manage escalation activities and organize discussions to
address issues related to program members not fulfilling commitments.
• Define and manage team structure and associated modifications
• Assign team responsibilities
• Management of ongoing liaisons both within and outside of the TM
Forum (coordinated with the TM Forum liaison coordinator).
• Initial point of contact with new companies wishing to participate
in the initiative.
• Set-up and management of team meetings.
• Organize any necessary meetings to progress team work (weekly,
daily, or ad-hoc as appropriate)
• Plan meetings at TAW, Management World and any other face-to-face
meetings as required.
• Run plenary sessions during face-to-face meetings.
• Co-ordinate the creation and delivery of wrap-up session
presentations during TAWs and overview talks at the TM Forum Management
World and other key industry meetings or conferences.
• Provide regular material to be used in promoting the work of the
team and attracting new participants.
The following is an example list of generic and more specific
requirements for the appointment of a Team Leader, which can be used
within the Job Specification. The required capabilities should try to
include the following generic capabilities(applying to any team lead
role) as well as the technical capabilities which will depend on the
particular work effort:
Generic requirements for the Team/Project Leader position:
• Experience of managing software development projects with fixed
deadlines;
• Track record of presenting to Service Providers, ability to
understand their requirements and find pragmatic ways to meet their
needs;
• Strong communications skills – verbal, written and presentation;
• An ability to work well with people from diverse backgrounds.
Specific requirements for the Team/Project Leader position:
• Approximately <identify> amount of committed time to the role
• Knowledge in the area of <identify …. >
• << Add as appropriate >>
|
Expand / Collapse
