Project Support

Project Support Officer – Metropolitan Police –Temporary – Lambeth or Holborn or Kennington – Hybrid – 3 days on site per week – 6-Month Contract - £350.00 per day Umbrella - £282.48 per day PAYE

Reed Talent Solutions are working with the Metropolitan Police, in the search for a Project Support Officer to join their fast-paced transformation team.

The Project Support Officer will provide comprehensive, confidential, and professional administrative support service to the Head of Solutions and Solutions Pillar.

Key responsibilities:

Working closely with the Business Change & Comms Lead and wider MBS SLT, this role will;

• Support and create plans for communication and engagement, assist with drafting of communication products by working closely across the programme and other key stakeholders to ensure they prepare people appropriately for the change.
• Support the Development of training plans via TNA and take part in training approaches that will support mitigating the impacts of change placed upon a number of different user groups who will range from professionals within HR/Finance/Commercial to Frontline Police Officers.
• Experience of building and analysing change impact assessments in a complex operational landscape, producing both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Support the business change lead to Identify and build relationships across MPS to create channels that enable feedback to flow in and out of MBS to ensure there is understanding of business appetite/priorities/adoption etc.
• Work closely with other Business Change Analysts across MBS and MPS Programmes to align change activity, share best practice and to ensure the delivery is a co-ordinated approach to communications and engagement to minimise impact on impacted users
• Reporting and Insight - produce timely and accurate dashboards and highlight reports ensuring the wider change lead is aware of any significant impacts this may have on wider implementation.
• Planning – track progress against project milestones and the impact changes to milestones have on the Change POAP, Critical Milestone log, Plan-on-A-Page (PoAP), and Change Control.
• RAID Management - maintenance of project level Risks/Assumptions/Issues and Dependencies log.
• Benefits Management - tracking and reporting against relevant project and programme benefits.
• Information Management – working with PMO to support being custodian of all programme artefacts including central repository/filing of key project documentation, ensuring wider change is shared/ communicated.
• Lessons Learned - capturing key lessons learned, maintaining the project / programme lessons learned log, and supporting the sharing of lessons learned with relevant stakeholder groups.
• Work closely with the PMO to ensure timely delivery of information, outputs and reporting requirements.
• Support the PMO team in optimising the existing project and change management methodology, processes, procedures and templates.

Skills and Qualifications: You will be expected to evidence the following:

• Excellent competency in Ms Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Ms Project)
• Experience in project planning, risk management and change control
• Team oriented and collaborative mindset

Some experience of delivering change management activities in a consulting or project environment.The successful candidate will need to undertake security vetting clearance for this opportunity. Hybrid working 3 days in the office no negotiation.