Project Coordinator - Security Cleared

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the programme's Acceleration Initiative Register, coordinating meetings, tracking initiatives and ensuring records remain accurate and up to date.
• Maintain the Risk Register and coordinate fortnightly risk review meetings, tracking mitigation activities and outstanding actions.
• Attend sprint and delivery meetings, capture decisions, distribute meeting notes and proactively follow up actions through to completion.
• Manage team planners, task updates and supporting documentation, ensuring information is consistently recorded and maintained.
• Develop Power BI dashboards to monitor delivery progress, risks, actions and programme performance.
• Support dashboard development and data management using Power Apps where required.
• Prepare draft steering committee packs, sprint reports and programme updates for review by senior stakeholders.
• Support effective communication and coordination across project teams, technical specialists and programme leadership.

Experience Required

• Approximately 3–5 years' experience in a Project Coordinator, PMO Analyst, Project Support Officer or similar role.
• Practical experience using Power BI, including developing dashboards and presenting project data.
• Experience maintaining risk registers, action logs, project trackers and delivery reports.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft 365 skills.
• Excellent organisation, communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain accurate records and proactively follow up outstanding actions.
• Active SC security clearance is essential.

Desirable Experience

• Power Apps and Microsoft Planner.
• Agile delivery environments, sprint meetings or project controls.
• Defence, Aerospace, Engineering or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience supporting complex technology or engineering programmes.

Contract Details

• Initial 6-month contract with potential extension.
• Hybrid working, typically 2–3 days per week onsite in Reading.
• Supporting a major, long-term UK Defence and Aerospace programme.

This opportunity would suit a proactive, detail-oriented individual who enjoys working within delivery teams, improving reporting processes and helping complex programmes stay organised and on track.