Project Support Officer in Farnborough

The UK National Security, Defense and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Project Support Officer to support delivery of the Metropolitan Police contract. In this role, you will provide broad project and PMO support across governance, planning, reporting, financial administration, risk and issue coordination, stakeholder engagement, document management, and the maintenance of key project artefacts. You will help ensure project information is accurate, accessible, appropriately controlled, and aligned to agreed delivery and governance processes. This position focuses on structured project support, governance coordination, management information, reporting, administration, and cross-functional collaboration, working closely with project leadership, the Head of PMO, delivery teams, enabling functions, suppliers, and customer stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide broad project support across governance, planning, reporting, administration, financial control, resource coordination, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Coordinate, maintain, and track project documentation, ensuring records are accurate, accessible, appropriately version controlled, and aligned to agreed governance processes.
• Support project leadership with day-to-day project administration, including finance, human resources, purchasing, budgeting, scheduling, reporting, and management information.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action trackers, decision logs, RAID records, dependency registers, and other core project controls as required.
• Support the preparation, collation, and quality review of project reports, management information, governance packs, customer updates, and internal briefings.
• Track actions, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and decisions, ensuring owners are identified, updates are captured, and overdue items are escalated appropriately.
• Support project governance activities, including meeting cadence, agenda preparation, minute taking, action capture, follow-up coordination, and maintenance of meeting records.
• Work with project leadership to organise planning increment workshops, including booking facilities, conference rooms, meeting invites, agendas, supporting materials, and visitor requests.
• Ensure key stakeholders are prepared for planning workshops through advance creation, review, and maintenance of appropriate planning documentation and supporting records.
• Capture, store, version control, and share outputs from planning activities through appropriate document management channels.
• Coordinate visitor requests, onboarding inputs, access arrangements, meeting logistics, and general administrative support for customer, supplier, and delivery team engagement.
• Coordinate with the Head of PMO to maintain configuration control of project documentation, project artefacts, governance records, and related repositories.
• Maintain the project organisation chart, distribution lists, contact records, stakeholder information, and associated controlled documentation in consultation with the Head of PMO.
• Support project leads with day-to-day cost, resource, and workforce administration, including charge codes, overtime booking, purchase requests, forecasting inputs, and resource tracking.
• Coordinate, collate, and manage content for external briefings, ensuring source material is current, controlled, and traceable.
• Identify opportunities to improve project administration, reporting, document control, and PMO processes, supporting continuous improvement and consistent ways of working.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in a project support, project administration, PMO, programme support, or similar delivery support role.
• Strong document management, information control, and configuration management experience.
• High level of IT literacy, including experience of document management platforms, collaboration tools, spreadsheets, reporting packs, and project tracking tools.
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail when maintaining controlled documents, project artefacts, trackers, registers, and management information.
• Good understanding of project governance, planning, cost management, risk and issue management, estimating, forecasting, resource planning, reporting, and document control processes.
• Ability to coordinate multiple activities, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and work independently to achieve day-to-day objectives.
• Clear, assertive, and patient communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with project teams, senior stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and enabling functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise, government, defence, national security, or complex programme delivery environments.
• Experience working with PMO teams, delivery teams, commercial functions, finance teams, HR, procurement, suppliers, and formal governance forums.
• Experience maintaining document registers, action trackers, RAID logs, decision logs, dependency registers, project plans, resource records, and controlled repositories.
• Knowledge of planning increment coordination, workshop administration, meeting governance, and stakeholder preparation activities.
• Experience preparing project briefings, management information, reporting packs, governance materials, customer updates, and leadership dashboards.
• Familiarity with document control, configuration management, continuous improvement, lessons learned, and standardised PMO ways of working.

Commitment To Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.