Assistant Project Manager in Sheffield

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Overview

You will hold a key support role to a significant portfolio of programmes and projects within the AMRC and work across the whole portfolio of projects of varying lengths in duration in one of its research groups. There are opportunities to work across different research groups, but you will specialise in one of the core research groups initially. You will support and work closely with a team with understanding in the relevant fields of Research, Project Management and Development. You will also aid in the development of portfolio and finance processes to improve performance. Policy support is a key aspect of the role within the portfolio and experience of this type of work is crucial.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Working with the Project Management Community to support them to plan, administer and deliver team projects.
• Research, collate, organise, and edit material for inclusion in reports and other documents.
• Interpret and communicate results to Project Manager, Senior Project Manager and some essential operational areas.
• Present own work and teams data results to internal and external stakeholders at all levels in a professional and concise manner.
• Expected involvement with securing key partnership projects and maintaining close partnerships with AMRC partner companies.
• Plan and carry out tasks/responsibilities over the short-medium term, with an awareness of longer-term issues.
• Continuously monitor and check teams against milestones, priorities, finance, on time delivery, resourcing and forward levels of work and quality process adherence within a large portfolio of work.
• Assist teams in planning several months in advance to meet deadlines for AMRC project reports, industrial partner deadlines and to support preparation for presentations to internal and external stakeholders, especially in communication of finance status.
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.

Person Specification

• Have significant Project Coordinator/project support work experience.
• Have client facing/customer service work experience at working team level.
• IT Skills across Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Project intermediate to advanced standard.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, report writing skills, experience of supporting presentations.
• Must be extremely organised with a methodical and structured approach to work, and good attention to detail.
• Ability to track and support the finances within a large portfolio of work.
• Ability to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of longer-term implications.
• Experience of supporting a range of project management approaches including waterfall, hybrid and agile.
• Has an awareness of Risk Management.
• Must have studied or hold a known project management qualification (PFQ, Prince 2, Agile etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Further Information

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