Location: Saffron Walden (CB10)
Type: Permanent
Hours: 9am - 5.30pm (Monday to Friday)
Salary: circa 40,000 depending on experience
Job Reference: 36366
Our client, an innovative technology and engineering business, is seeking a highly organised and proactive Project Management Assistant to support the successful delivery of a varied portfolio of projects.
Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative and coordination support across multiple projects
- Maintain project plans, schedules, resource records and documentation
- Track project budgets, expenditure and forecasts
- Monitor project actions, risks and issues, following up with relevant stakeholders
- Prepare progress reports, dashboards, presentations and management information
- Arrange project meetings, prepare agendas, record minutes and monitor agreed actions
- Support project start-up, closure and lessons-learned activities
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, standardise working practices and automate routine tasks
- Assist with the delivery of smaller projects as experience develops
Requirements:
- Strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate multiple activities effectively
- Confident communicator, comfortable engaging with stakeholders at different levels
- Strong written communication skills, including report writing and meeting documentation
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- A proactive, analytical approach with an interest in process improvement and automation
- Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a team
Desirable experience:
- Background in project administration, project support or project coordination
- Understanding of project management principles and methodologies
- Experience using project management or business systems such as Microsoft Project, Jira or ERP platforms
- Familiarity with resource planning, budget monitoring or workflow automation
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