Offshore Project Resourcing
Colab is the top Offshore Project Resourcing partner for UK businesses.
With the increasing demand for project resources in the UK, Colab is ideally suited to provide highly skilled project resources on contract, working remotely.
Offshore Project Resourcing Addresses these Challenges
Finding, training, and retaining experienced project resources is becoming increasingly challenging due to global economic fluctuations. This uncertainty in project investments leads to a reluctance to invest in skilled project capacity, which inherently needs to be flexible.
A project resource is a unique individual who must be resilient, thick-skinned, and willing to take ownership of tasks beyond their domain. They need to motivate people resistant to change while ensuring everyone feels heard and valued. High-quality project resources who take ownership, have low personal demands and drive results, are hard to find and retain.
Project work has transitioned online, with teams collaborating globally without the need for physical infrastructure.
South Africa is well-positioned in terms of time zones with the UK and Europe, has strong language and cultural alignment, pockets of highly skilled project resources, and an exchange rate that offers the opportunity for stronger resources at favorable rates.
With the increasing demand for project resources in the UK, Colab is ideally suited to provide highly skilled project resources on contract, working remotely across various models without the burden of employment or infrastructure costs. Since 2008, Colab has successfully delivered over 600 projects, sourcing, training, coaching, and providing seasoned project resources. We understand what it takes to deliver successful projects, programs, or portfolios, allowing us to identify the ideal project resource attributes we proudly endorse.
Our extensive experience in project delivery has helped us identify the criteria, attributes, and behaviors that enable the delivery of successful projects. We apply these insights in sourcing, coaching, and enhancing our talent, which we extend to our clients and their projects.
Additionally, the Colab culture emphasizes taking ownership and energizing people to achieve project results in a transparent and caring manner that our customers value.
Colab offers various engagement models ranging from pure resource augmentation, managed services and project consulting services.
A client in the UK will gain access to a pool of highly skilled project resources, with the attributes that deliver projects successfully and the option of engagement models to provide oversight and quality assurance without the overhead of employment, localization, sponsoring Visa’s etc.
Colab is the employer of record while the client has all the benefits of a flexible, highly skilled resource pool supported by specialist oversight and other value-added services where required.
Offshore Project Resourcing: What it is
Colab offers highly skilled project resources to execute projects in the UK and South African time zones, using a remote model1 for organizations with a portfolio of projects and a functional PMO capability.
This approach provides the benefits of seasoned resources, managed by the client, and available for flexible periods to match the portfolio demand cycle. Colab, a Project Execution and Advisory Consultancy with nearly two decades of experience and over 600 successful projects, supplies these resources. This model accelerates project initiation and reduces costs related to mobilization, infrastructure, productivity, and localization costs.
We view project resources as individuals with specific attributes:
- Highly skilled project professionals proficient in English
- Who take ownership of results, not just activities
- Self-starters who manage their own capacity and time
- Full-time2 availability on a fixed-term contract, aligned with the time zone and public holidays of the country they serve
Offshore Project Resourcing: What you get
- Contract Resource
- Highly skilled, fixed term, full-time2, project resources
- Vetted, referenced
- Flexible 30-day exit
- Capacity and performance managed by client2
- Payroll, legislative costs, industrial relations and people care performed by Colab
- Time & Material or Fixed monthly fee option
- Managed Resource Service
- Contract Resource, Plus
- Wrapped with:
- Quality Assurance
- Performance Management Oversight
Offshore Project Resourcing: What it includes
We cover all the roles required to work on projects in the portfolio of the PMO, in our Offshore Project Resourcing practice.
These include, among others:
- Head of PMO
- PMO / Project Office Managers
- Portfolio Managers
- PMO / Portfolio Administration
- Project Managers (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)
- Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches
- Programme Managers
- Project Coordinators
- Project Administrators
- Business Analysts
- Change Managers
- Process Engineers
- Data Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Data Analysts
- Enterprise Architects
- Solution Architects
- Testers / Test Analysts
- Development roles
Businesses in the UK can no longer afford to get projects wrong.
Colab is the top Offshore Project Resourcing partner for UK businesses.
At Colab, we focus on delivering projects and project benefits by emphasizing a few key attributes that have proven successful since 2008, across more than 600 projects. These attributes include:
- Focusing on benefits
- Taking ownership to drive organizational change
- Starting right with collaborative engagement
- Combining the right people with the right environment
- Keeping it simple yet organized
We want you to experience a service that allows you to get on with what you do best, while we deliver your projects.
To discuss how we can support you and your team with Offshore Project Resourcing, contact Barend Cronjé at barend@trustcolab.com, or visit us at www.trustcolab.com.
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1 A blended model is possible, but travel, visa & accommodation costs are for the client’s account
2 Various engagement models and capacities can be tailored
