At a Glance
- Tasks: Support project delivery by managing data, tracking progress, and ensuring effective governance.
- Company: Join a dynamic organisation making a real impact in project management.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for skill development.
- Other info: Work across multiple locations with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a tangible difference while advancing your career in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in project support and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 29700 - 36300 £ per year.
Join us as a Programme Officer. This is an opportunity to take on a new challenge in a project support role. You’ll have the chance to make a tangible impact on our function and develop your skills. Take on this exciting, fast-paced role, and advance your career with us.
What you'll do:
- You’ll be improving the planning and delivery process by collecting and maintaining data in a consistent form.
- You’ll also support the project governance and control including tracking the performance and progress of projects, project financial control and adoption.
- It’ll be your responsibility to implement guidelines, procedures and templates to collect and maintain consistent data, and provide hands-on delivery support to a programme or project.
- Drive the creation and update of programme or project plans as required by the programme or project manager.
- Support the identification of where cross-project dependencies exist and track or monitor these in support of the manager.
- Implement agreed regular progress reporting mechanisms for all projects and thereby monitor routine progress of projects, and assist in the preparation of the programme status or project highlight reports.
- Establish and maintain an information management system, managing both electronic and hard-copy configuration libraries.
The skills you'll need:
- You’ll need experience of project support roles internally or externally, and knowledge of project types and the project lifecycle.
- Strong pan-franchise, pan-entity programme and project support experience, with an understanding of project planning, governance, and the project lifecycle.
- Experience of maintaining project plans and tracking progress, actions, risks, issues, and cross-project dependencies.
- Good reporting and analytical skills, with the ability to maintain accurate project data and support the production of status and highlight reports.
- Experience in managing budgets and forecasts across multiple programmes of work (pan-franchise & pan-entity), with confidence working with project information and financial data.
- Strong senior stakeholder and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with project managers and wider project teams across the franchise and group.
- Good working knowledge of project tools and systems, such as Microsoft Office, Planview, Oracle and SharePoint.
- Strong organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- Management of third-parties, including the procurement life-cycle through to invoice management.
Hours: 35
Location: London; Birmingham; Manchester; Edinburgh
Type: Full time
Programme Officer employer: NatWest Group
As a Principal Engineer in Economic Crime Services, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative work culture that prioritises customer experience and engineering excellence. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through opportunities for senior stakeholder engagement and leadership development, all while working in a hybrid environment that promotes flexibility and collaboration. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to tackling economic crime with cutting-edge technology and solutions.
