The vendor required to provide business analyst and technical lead for implementation of student information system (sis) for include:
- Representing client at the following, but not limited to:
• Project team meetings
• Schedule meetings
• Project working committee meetings
• Vendor workshops
• Steering committee meetings
• Any other as required and determined by the project organizational structure
- Business analyst:
• Elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the business needs (requirements) and ensure requirements traceability across the project life cycle
• Capture the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ states (e.g., document business processes, workflows, rules etc.)
• Work with both the vendor(s) and the colleges on transition to operations
- Test lead:
• Create test plan and approach (including and not limited to testing approach, schedule, test cases and scenarios, resourcing requirements {including roles and responsibilities}, test acceptance criteria, and defect management)
• Testing may include but is not limited to functional, regression and user acceptance
• Liaison and consult with vendor
- Power BI
• Build out power BI reports based on ad-hoc requirements put forward by the colleges, ministry of advanced education (AE) and ministry of immigration and career training (ICT).
• Prove out and test out of the box power bi reports and enhance as required
• Build skill sets within each college to support and maintain bi reports post go-live
- Data analyst
• Work with vendor to migrate data from one client service model (OCSM)
• Analysis to define how the colleges use various types of fields in modules and populate lookup tables
• Liaison with the advanced education ministry information technology department (ITD) resources
- Client support and technical strategy:
• Establish and maintain regular communication pathway with college(s) whose instance(s) is being worked on and elevate needs to vendor as required.
• Advocate for solutions as required in conjunction with implementing college.
• Support the collection of current state business processes with implementing college and assist colleges in determining new business process flows.
• Defining technical requirements for modifications and work-arounds to vendor where the existing software lacks critical functionality.
• Defining and passing on enhancement requests to thesis to recommend future improvements which would support college needs.
• Facilitating the collective definition of base reports and the necessary content required through liaising with agency.
• Facilitating collective naming conventions for some data items.
• Ensuring that an evolving set of collective business rules around the sis are defined and respected through each implementation to ensure a required level of consistency
• Negotiating and collecting data values which require collective input.
• Overseeing high-level data load strategy including volume of history to extract through legacy system and engage strategy to create the data file.
• Facilitate establishment of course master from OCSM to each college for their review, edits and coding prior to upload to elements.
• Configuration of some system values, adding users for each college.
• Clarification of testing vs production environment protocols for each implementation.
• Creation of some common user documentation including potential training documentation for the college sector.
• The selected consultant will be responsible for providing their own equipment (e.g., laptop).
• Existing documentation and resources related to the current one client service model (OCSM) system will be made available to the successful proponent.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 21, 2025
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