Project Support Officer

We are currently recruiting for a Project Support Officer in London.

Pay rate: PAYE 311-341 per day/UMB 400-435 per day.

Contract duration: Temporary ongoing

Duties: 

–    Provide management and maintenance of specific project management documents and governance such as (but not limited to): Planning, control and reporting, risk management and issue resolution, quality management, utilising tools such as the risk and issue registers, project plans, assumptions and dependencies logs.

–    Enable the development of project Business Cases (and/or other stage gate documentation) through supporting tasks and activities as required by the Project Manager.

–    Coordinate and manage Project Boards, ensuring the production of reporting packs, logistical coordination of meetings, and full administrative duties; minute taking, recording decision making and actions accurately in the appropriate project logs.

–    Stakeholder engagement

Skills:

•    Develops good working relationships through good interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team.

•    Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

•    Excellent attention to detail.

•    Shows initiative, drive, intellect, personal resilience and motivation to deliver a quality service.

•    Manages own time and relevant resources efficiently and effectively.

•    Highly organised and able to meet demanding deadlines in a pressured environment.

•    Strong IT skills in the use of Microsoft Office products.

•    Ability to work flexibly and re-prioritise as necessary.

Experience: 

Essential:

•    Experience of providing administrative support in a project or programme environment.

•    Experience of supporting the delivery of relevant objectives and meeting the needs of customers and managers

•    Experience of undertaking a range of tasks, ensuring outcomes delivered to a high quality standard within the required timeframe;

•    Experience of taking effective minutes, including succinct and accurate records of actions and decisions;

•    Experience of helping others by supplying them with appropriate information to support effective decision-making;

•    Fully literate across the MS Office suite: MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Desirable:

•    Experience of working as a Project or Programme Support Officer or an Assistant Project Manager within a project environment.

•    Experience of working with a Project Management Office structure, to defined methodologies and standards, ideally using PRINCE2.

•    Experience within the public sector of planning and maintaining control documentation for projects or programmes.

•    Experience in managing streams of work within projects, involving multiple stakeholders and teams, as part of a dynamic environment using formal methods.

•    Experience of developing and maintaining plans for projects or programmes;

•    Experience of working in a policing and/or security environment;

Apply online or contact Terri O’Keefe on 07879 585551. You can also email terri@peelsolutions.co.uk  for more information on this role.