Project Support Officer

Role and responsibilities A: Supporting the project: - Supporting development plans, including the management and coordination of sign off processes by the Project Managers and the PMO - Updating control documents, such as issues and risks through engagement and input from the teams and helping to update plans , risk logs etc - Updating regular (daily / weekly) trackers based on the outcome of the project meetings - Facilitating Planning and Risk workshops, with the ability to contextualise outputs and produce detailed artefacts B: Supporting and servicing key stakeholders: - Following up and coordination of all reporting requirements, conducting a quality assurance and challenge function for all inputs - Completion / co-ordination of requested reports and updates for the Project / Programme Boards (including the management and coordination of its sign off processes) - Planning and preparations for the Project Board and Working Group Meetings, taking the meeting minutes and managing the feedback and approval process of the project documentation by the Project Board The following experience is essential to this post: - Experience of having been involved in the delivery of projects within agreed time, cost and quality constraints. - Understanding of project management tools and methodologies, and experience of applying them in practice. - Competent in MS Office Suite of products (esp. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project) - Ability to work at pace in a highly intense and pressured environment. - A positive, can do attitude with the understanding of having to be adaptable in approach and managing priorities in order to get the job done.