A bit about the role
We are looking for an IT Project Support Officer to support for six months on our Oracle Stabilisation Programme.
This is a part-time role of 21 hours per week; we can be flexible with how that time is arranged.
You’ll support the Programme and the leads within this by maintaining project frameworks, plans, records, reports, RAID logs, and dashboards, while helping project teams stay on track.
What you’ll do
- Support project documentation, most notably documentation used in Audit procedures such as PIDs, action logs, minutes, task completion tracking.
- Prepare reports, dashboards and RAID logs for monthly governance boards and support with preparation of monthly sponsor updates.
- Coordinate meetings, boards, communications, and stakeholder relationships.
- Support project closure, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
What we’re looking for
- You’ll have experience supporting programmes or projects in a fast-paced IT environment, strong planning and communication skills, and confidence using tools such as Copilot, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, and Outlook.
- Experience of using Mission Control project management tool is advantageous but not essential.
- Support Oracle project is advantageous but Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 Foundation, AgilePM, ITIL Foundation or P3O would be valuable.
Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children.
We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles.
We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
Closing date
Wednesday 9th September 2026
Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams shortly after the closing date of the advert.