{"id":984,"date":"2025-11-18T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/?page_id=984"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:41:48","slug":"marcom-dssm-project-team-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/marcom-distributed-shared-service-model\/marcom-dssm-project-team-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Team Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Project Team Overview\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Project Owner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tony Frost, Chief Communications Officer and Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Provide project leadership; ensure project aligns with president\u2019s mandate and university\u2019s strategic goals; act as bridge between executives, unit teams and project team; champion recommendations for institutional decisions; lead implementation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Project Partner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Duane McNair, Vice-President (People, Finance and Operations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Role:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Overall leadership of the university\u2019s shared services restructuring process<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Provide expertise, support action and help align people and processes to the project’s goals; work with project teams to execute change management plans and activities; act as change champion; lead post-implementation review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Working Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      • Alysha A. Cunningham, Director, Communications<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Christina Flavell, Director, Marketing and Brand<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Scott Gonsalves, Director, External Affairs & Commercialization (Sprott)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Josh Greenberg, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate (FPGA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Alastair Mullin, Chief of Staff & Director of Government Relations<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Jamie Rodger, Assistant Director, Digital Strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Hillary Rose, Director, Advancement Communications and Alumni Engagement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Jamie Sutherland, Manager, Marketing and Brand Development Recreation and Athletics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Nick Ward, Manager, Strategic Communications (FASS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Role:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • Support data collection, analysis and interpretation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Identify insights<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Validate findings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Co-develop recommendations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Project Facilitation and Transformation Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          • Nancy Arnold, Director, Office of Quality Initiatives<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Laura Kelly, Senior Quality Advisor, Office of Quality Initiatives<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Debbie Orme-Rego, Director, Staffing & Labour Relations, Professional Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Role:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • Manage discovery process, including planning and facilitating engagement sessions, timelines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Identify risks, barriers, opportunities and solutions related to people, processes and organizational culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Provide guidance on the integration of HR initiatives and continuous improvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Support the design and implement of change manage plans<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Act as champions and liaisons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Project Owner Tony Frost, Chief Communications Officer and Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs) Role: Project Partner Duane McNair, Vice-President (People, Finance and Operations) Role: Working Team Role: Project Facilitation and Transformation Team Role:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1357,"parent":982,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-984","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984\/revisions\/1464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}