Project Management Office Adminstrator - FTC 6 Months

Project Management Office Adminstrator - FTC 6 Months

Posted 4 days ago by FGH (Freemans Grattan Holdings)

Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Summary: The Project Management Office Administrator will provide vital administrative and coordination support to the PMO Lead within the Value Delivery Office, ensuring effective project delivery and governance processes. This role is ideal for individuals early in their project or administrative careers who thrive in organizational and problem-solving tasks. The position requires a proactive approach to support a busy team and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. The role offers hybrid working flexibility with a minimum of two office days per week in Bradford.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain shared PMO inboxes, distribution lists, and document repositories.
  • Support the collation, formatting, and distribution of project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
  • Schedule meetings, workshops, and governance sessions, ensuring agendas and pre-reads are circulated.
  • Take accurate meeting minutes and follow up on outstanding actions where required.
  • Assist Project Managers with basic project documentation if required (RAIDs, action logs, change requests, plans).
  • Update templates and ensure consistent use across the PMO.
  • Track and update project KPIs, milestones, and deliverables under guidance from the PMO Lead.
  • Gather data from project teams to support monthly/quarterly reporting cycles.
  • Help maintain central logs such as risks, issues, decisions, resource allocations, and benefits.
  • Support production of PowerPoint presentations and project reports to a high standard.
  • Ensure documents are version-controlled and stored correctly.
  • Support adherence to PMO processes, standards, and governance frameworks.
  • Escalate risks, delays, or issues to the PMO Lead where required.
  • Provide day-to-day support to the PMO team, including general queries and admin tasks.
  • Contribute ideas to improve processes, templates, or reporting.
  • Support onboarding of new team members by preparing materials and coordination.

Key Skills:

  • Strong administrative and organisational skills.
  • Good attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Comfortable using Microsoft Office with Basic Excel and PowerPoint skills (tables, charts, formatting).
  • Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proactive, reliable, and willing to learn.
  • Maths and English grade C or above, or equivalent.
  • Able to work accurately under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
  • Communicates clearly and professionally, verbally and in writing, while maintaining confidentiality.
  • Proactive and curious, asking questions and seeking opportunities to improve processes.
  • Works effectively both independently and when directed.
  • Demonstrates flexibility, resilience, and a positive approach to change.
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
  • Enthusiastic, proactive, and motivated with a strong desire to learn.
  • Able to commute to Bradford city centre, minimum of 2 days a week.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Bradford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Project Management Office Administrator - Fixed Term Contract 6 Months

FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ

Hybrid flexibility: 2 office days per week

About The Role

The PMO Administrator will provide essential administrative and coordination support to the PMO Lead, as part of the Value Delivery Office (VDO), helping ensure effective delivery of projects and smooth operation of project governance processes. This role is perfect for someone early in their project or admin career who enjoys organisation, problem-solving, and supporting a busy team.

Accountabilities

  • PMO Administration
  • Maintain shared PMO inboxes, distribution lists, and document repositories.
  • Support the collation, formatting, and distribution of project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
  • Schedule meetings, workshops, and governance sessions, ensuring agendas and pre-reads are circulated.
  • Take accurate meeting minutes and follow up on outstanding actions where required.
  • Project Coordination Support
  • Assist Project Managers with basic project documentation if required (RAIDs, action logs, change requests, plans).
  • Update templates and ensure consistent use across the PMO.
  • Track and update project KPIs, milestones, and deliverables under guidance from the PMO Lead.
  • Data & Reporting
  • Gather data from project teams to support monthly/quarterly reporting cycles.
  • Help maintain central logs such as risks, issues, decisions, resource allocations, and benefits.
  • Support production of PowerPoint presentations and project reports to a high standard.
  • Governance & Compliance
  • Ensure documents are version-controlled and stored correctly.
  • Support adherence to PMO processes, standards, and governance frameworks.
  • Escalate risks, delays, or issues to the PMO Lead where required.
  • Team Support & Continuous Improvement
  • Provide day-to-day support to the PMO team, including general queries and admin tasks.
  • Contribute ideas to improve processes, templates, or reporting.
  • Support onboarding of new team members by preparing materials and coordination.

About You

Strong administrative and organisational skills

Good attention to detail and accuracy

Comfortable using Microsoft Office with Basic Excel and PowerPoint skills (tables, charts, formatting)

Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Proactive, reliable, and willing to learn

Maths and English grade C or above, or equivalent.

Able to work accurately under pressure and meet tight deadlines

Communicates clearly and professionally, verbally and in writing, while maintaining confidentiality

Proactive and curious, asking questions and seeking opportunities to improve processes

Works effectively both independently and when directed

Demonstrates flexibility, resilience, and a positive approach to change

Highly organised with strong attention to detail

Enthusiastic, proactive, and motivated with a strong desire to learn

Able to commute to Bradford city centre, minimum of 2 days a week

ABOUT US: FGH

For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer. With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone. Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group one of the world’s largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.

What We Offer You

FLEXIBILITY

We offer hybrid working to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person team work and the flexibility to work from home.

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role. We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step. We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.

INCLUSIVITY

As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance. Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.

Benefits

We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits:

  • Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
  • 37 days holiday
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Paid paternity and maternity leave
  • Incredible staff discounts
  • Subsidised Canteen

Ready to apply? If you’re excited about this opportunity and want to join FGH, click apply now to send us your application.