At a Glance
- Tasks: Support project delivery, manage budgets, and ensure compliance in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Join a government client focused on impactful projects.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a chance to work on meaningful projects.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic and supportive team.
- Why this job: Be a key player in project success while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Strong teamwork, drafting skills, and experience in project environments are essential.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 £ per year.
A Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) is required for our government client to assist on a portfolio of projects. You will provide project delivery within the Project Management team and support the Project Manager relating to supplier orders and invoices, project planning, project financial management, project documentation and reporting. This is a varied role which is essential to allow the Project Managers to fully concentrate on the delivery of their projects, and the role will involve working in a busy project environment with extremely tight time scales.
Essential Skills & Experience required:
- Good interpersonal and team player skills
- Good drafting skills such as minute taking
- Good numerical and project financial skills
- Able to manage and prioritise your workload and time effectively and respond to changing priorities
- Proficient with core applications such as MS Word, Outlook and Excel
- MS Project 2007
- Previous experience of working within a project environment, ideally supporting either large projects or multiple smaller projects within government departments is desirable
- APM Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation or Practitioner qualification and experience
- Any knowledge of Oracle financial systems
Responsibilities include:
- To provide a comprehensive project support service directly supporting Programme Managers and Project Managers
- Act as point of contact in the team for internal and external customers, responding promptly to queries
- Organise and manage dates and documentation for programme and project meetings
- Organise and attend relevant internal IT meetings, including formulating and circulating agendas and action lists
- Oversee Risks and Issues management
- Ensuring compliance to commercial gate review process including preparation of documentation where necessary
- To play a key role in the development and monitoring of projects, checking quality of output and compliance with business requirements, including commitments in proposals
- Monitor the delivery of work streams against plans, chasing and challenging progress as appropriate
- Represent the Project Manager at meetings as requested
- Administer, monitor and report on projects budgets in accordance with the Clients processes and timetables
- Responsible for tracking actual project costs against allocated budgets and producing monthly reports
- Create or maintain project plans using MS Project
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