Project Support Officer
Posted 1 week ago by Morson Edge
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Summary: The Project Support Officer role involves coordinating resources and assisting project and programme managers in delivering two main WAN workstreams within a significant programme. The position requires a candidate with formal Project/PMO team experience and knowledge of methodologies such as Prince2 or PMP. The role is hybrid, necessitating presence in West Yorkshire due to its onsite nature. The ideal candidate should possess strong organizational skills and effective communication abilities to manage project reporting and stakeholder relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate resources and support project and programme managers
- Update plans to measure progress
- Produce project reporting to provide updates to stakeholders
- Record benefits and manage measurements of them
- Record and manage risks, issues, and dependencies
- Maintain repository of project information
- Provide project reporting information in accordance with PMO guidance
- Liaise with sites to agree schedules
- Manage change requests in a controlled way
- Establish good relationships with stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Experience in a formal Project/PMO team
- Knowledge of methodologies such as Prince2 or PMP
- Well organized and structured in approach
- Good spreadsheet skills
- Can-do attitude to support the team
- Great communicator
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job title: Project Support Officer
Contract/inside IR35/6 months + likely extensions
Location: hybrid - we require someone in West Yorkshire due to the onsite nature of this position.
We're looking for a Project Support contractor to coordinate resources and support project and programme managers on the delivery of the two main WAN workstreams on a significant programme. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a formal Project/PMO team with knowledge of a methodology such as Prince2, PMP etc. and have the following skills:
- Be well Organised and structured in approach
- Good spreadsheet skills
- Have a can do attitude to support the team
- Able to update plans to measure progress
- Able to produce project reporting to provide updates to stakeholders
- Record benefits and manage measurements of them
- Record and manage risks, issues and dependencies
- Maintain repository of project information
- Provide project reporting information
- Provide project reporting in accordance with PMO guidance
- Liaise with Sites to agree schedules
- Great Communicator and establish good relationships with stakeholders
- Manage changes requests in a controlled way
Experience:
Worked in a project/programme environment
Worked in a retail environment or worked on delivery of Network/Hardware upgrade/refreshes across multiple sites
If this sounds like you, please hit the apply button! Thanks