Project Officer
6 months ago
We are in the early stages of implementing our 10-year organisational strategy, ARUK: Towards a Cure. Sitting within the Chief Executive’s Office and reporting to the Project and Programme Manager, the Project Officer supports the scoping, planning, and delivery of strategic, cross-team projects and programmes. The post holder also supports the Project and Programme Manager in embedding project management best practice across the wider organisation.
**MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Project Management**
- Deliver key, strategic projects, as determined by the yearly Operational Planning process, working with project teams to develop flexible project plans that can adapt to change.
- Manage project risks, decisions, and dependencies, liaise with third parties, and monitor project progress, ensuring stakeholders are updated at key checkpoints.
- Lead project reviews to capture successes and learnings and ensure project outcomes are embedded into BAU.
- Support the Project and Programme Manager and Head of Programme Management on other ongoing projects and programmes as and when required.
**Promotion of project management best practice**
- Maintain ownership of the Projects team intranet pages and project management resources, for use by colleagues across the organisation.
- Provide tailored project management consultations to empower colleagues to deliver their own in-team projects.
- Support the Project and Programme Manager on delivering the ARUK Project Management Masterclass.
**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR**:
- Experience managing projects, including allocating tasks and managing risks, decisions, and changes.
- Sound knowledge of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile).
- Demonstrable ability to work with and influence a variety of different internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Working knowledge of project management tools, such as Excel, Smartsheet, MS Projects or similar.
- Excellent communication skills, with an ability to build relationships, trust, and inspire confidence and respect at all levels.
- Strong team player who can work both independently and collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders of all levels.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, and the ability to manage a varied workload and reprioritise work in accordance with the organisation’s needs.
- Excellent listening skills, demonstrating flexibility, curiosity, and an ability to learn.
- Demonstrates good negotiation and influencing skills.
- Demonstrates a proactive and pragmatic approach to investigating and solving problems, strives for continuous improvement and identifies ways to deliver creative and innovative solutions.
- A good blend of strategic and analytical thinking; with an ability to see the bigger picture and make appropriate recommendations.
- Ability to absorb and process new information quickly.
- Strong ethical standards and a high level of personal integrity and empathy.
- Excellent IT skills in PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
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