Team Support United Kingdom Essex Application Deadline 17 August 2026

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you thrive on organization and making things run seamlessly? Are you looking for an opportunity to support a collaborative People function while contributing to a large and complex infrastructure programme? If so, this could be the role for you.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow. As a Team Support Coordinator, you will play a key role in supporting the People Team by coordinating programme activities, maintaining governance and documentation, and ensuring the efficient delivery of people initiatives. Working closely with the Head of Culture, Senior People Manager, and wider People Team, you will provide administrative, logistical, and coordination support that enables the successful delivery of strategic people programmes across the Lower Thames Crossing Programme.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate People Team activities, supporting communication, governance, and onboarding across the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) Programme.
• Maintain People Team documentation in the LTC Hub (SharePoint) and Information Management System (IMS), ensuring content is accurate, current, and accessible.
• Provide administrative and logistical support, including meeting coordination, diary management, event planning, team activities, and budget monitoring.
• Coordinate the planning and delivery of People Team events, workshops, Learning Cohorts, Learning Hubs, Mini Hubs, and other engagement initiatives.
• Conduct quality assurance checks to ensure organizational charts and People information are accurate, up to date, and published on the LTC Hub.
• Support People Governance and Assurance by ensuring compliance with programme policies, governance requirements, reporting standards, and established processes.
• Assist in delivering key People initiatives, including Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), People Strategy milestones, and Learning & Development programmes.
• Manage and distribute programme-wide and targeted communications through Populo under the guidance of the Head of Culture and Senior People Manager.
• Promote Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing (HSSW) by supporting programme initiatives and the implementation of HSSW strategies.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. Furthermore, you should:

• Have previous experience in project coordination, administrative, or business support role, ideally within HR, People, Learning & Development, or a project environment.
• Have experience supporting governance processes, maintaining documentation, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Have high degree of computer literacy including immediate to advanced knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint and Excel and other software with a willingness and skill to learn new programs quickly.
• Be able to communicate with all levels in an organization to produce timely documents etc.
• Have well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to manage pressure, work with different leadership styles and ensure tasks are completed.
• Be willing and quick to learn new tools and systems.

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead, by example, by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays.
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents.
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
• Life assurance.
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply).
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply).

Optional benefits include:

• Electric vehicle lease.
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s).

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist - Shruti Gupta at srgu@cowi.com. Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.