Role: 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 address 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 produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the 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 & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board
- Accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.
- Ensured that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.
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Project Associate in Basingstoke employer: Undisclosed Company
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