Track Session - Complex by Design: What Endowment Projects Teach Us About Collaboration
4:35 PM - 5:25 PM UTC+00:00
Speaker(s): Debora Vieira, Project Officer (Gift Accounting), Imperial College London, Marta Bel, Head of Gift Accounting, Imperial College London, Steve Clark, Gift Officer, University of Sheffield
Elective Session
This session uses our endowment projects as a practical case study to show how a complex project was delivered alongside busy day-to-day work. By looking at how the University of Sheffield and Imperial approached the same challenge, it brings two institutional perspectives on navigating governance, data, hierarchical structures, and cross-team collaboration.
Rather than a project-management masterclass, this will be a candid look at real endowment work, sharing practical tools, honest lessons learned, and approaches that helped us navigate change within a busy, layered environment.