Project Support Officer - Transition Programme

**looking for a Project Support Officer - not a Project Manager**Job summary

• Job title: Project Support Officer - Transition Programme
• Organisation: Public Corporation
• Contract type: Permanent
• Employment type: Full-time
• Working hours: 37.5
• Salary: up to £35,000 - 40,000
• Working Environment: Hybrid, 2 days in per week
• Location: London
• Annual leave: 25 days
• Pension: 10% pension contribution

Overview

• An organisation established by the Department for Transport is seeking a Project Support Officer to assist with the coordination, tracking, and reporting of a transition/integration programme. This role is crucial in laying the groundwork for smooth programme execution, significantly impacting the overall success of the programme outcomes.

What you'll need to succeed

• Maintaining the project management environment including task, risk and assurance registers. As well as handling any issues that arise.
• Maintaining the programme intranet area.
• Maintaining comprehensive programme documentation, plans, and report.
• Working with and supporting project leads, to establish the setup of reporting requirements and governance.
• Analyse risks and opportunities and handle them appropriately
• Attending meetings and assist with taking of and distributing notes, minute and tracking the states of actions.
• Co-ordinate finance and insurance welcome pack, policies and workshops with expert leads. Co-ordinate timing and attendees.
• Oversee the transition email inbox and ensure requests are being forwarded to the correct person and functions.
• Stakeholder relationships - working across internal and external teams to manage expectations.
• Ensuring standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests
• Assist the director with administrative tasks.
• Undertaking ad-hoc tasks delegated by the director.

Skills and experience required

• Proven project experience supporting a large programme of work in a government organisation.
• Ability to create and maintain risk registers. Not looking for a project manager.
• Ability to develop and maintain project plans
• Ability to maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, status reports and project deliverables
• Experience with project management software tools and knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Experienced in dealing with senior stakeholders.

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