Project Associate

Location: Basingstoke

Day rate: £450 - £475 Inside IR35

Duration: 6 Months

Active DV clearance required due to project restrictions

Role description:

• Support the Project Manager in the day-to-day management of assigned projects or workstreams.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and milestones.
• Coordinate project activities, ensuring actions are tracked and completed on time.
• Support delivery of agreed outputs within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Prepare and update regular project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Support RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, ensuring logs are accurate and up to date.
• Assist with change control activities, ensuring changes are recorded, assessed, and approved in line with governance processes.
• Support audit and assurance activities by ensuring evidence and artefacts are complete and traceable.
• Liaise with delivery teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support timely information flow.
• Assist with project financial tracking, including cost reporting and forecasting.
• Support contract and supplier administration activities where applicable.
• Ensure financial data is accurately reflected in project systems and reports.

Key skills and experience:

• Technical oversight: Provide technical guidance and ensure the project aligns with technical requirements, often collaborating with tech leads and IT departments.
• Delivered various types of projects through the full project lifecycle, specifically ICT infrastructure, application development, test and release.
• Familiar with different methodologies, i.e. Prince2, Agile, Safe.
• Managed the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role.
• Managed the delivery of projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown, and handover to service.
• Operated within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure, and methodology where this is in place.
• Gathered status reports of team members across their project and addressed issues as appropriate.
• Established reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Senior Project Manager or Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.
• Managed project risks and produced an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all parties.
• Ensured that formal review procedures are used.
• Managed risks associated with the deliverables of the project.
• Integrated financial data for multiple projects.
• Ensured that the impact on the Business Line Profit is considered.