Project Support Officer

4 months ago

Chelmsford, United Kingdom Essex County Council Full time

About the role

**Project Support Officer**

Fixed Term, Full Time

Up to £31,283 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

**Please note this is a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for a period of 12 months.**

**The Role**

The responsibilities of the Project Support Officer covers a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of tasks aligned to a project, programme, or portfolio.

Working primarily alongside a Programme Manager, this role will enable the smooth running of specific programme/projects, through the co-ordination of business management actions and activities on their behalf. Other requirements will focus on development of key documents and reporting, monitoring the progress of specific programme, projects or work-streams, whilst overseeing, with direction, small projects, as required.

Experienced in being planned and organised, complemented by strong communication and interpersonal skills are key attributes in ensuring projects stay on track. By monitoring progress and engaging with stakeholders, this role plays a key role in ensuring a structured approach to maintaining high quality outputs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support the teams by maintaining appropriate systems to ensure effective planning and scheduling of projects or programmes.
- Support the team by assisting them in maintaining project controls and producing project reports to ensure adequate and regular monitoring of project progress.
- Responsible for programme/project file management using robust version control and organising programme/project boards and meetings, together with providing support to ensure efficient operation of day to day activities.
- Supports the programme/project teams by being a main point of contact for responses to external requests for information and engaging with both internal and external contacts.
- Supports the teams by monitoring programme/project spend and contribute to the compilation of budget updates whilst also ensuring updates of other tasks, such as, maintaining risk and issue logs and clearly documenting decisions.
- Supports the team by sharing any insights or escalating issues to ensure Programme and Projects Managers are kept up to date.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Educated to GCSE or equivalent by experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development and knowledge in relevant professional area.
- Experience and evidence of working in a project support role in a large, complex organisation
- Curious and inspired to work in an agile environment where you can learn and develop
- Experience of engaging with others to build good working relationships and communicating effectively
- Experience of working with a broad range of individuals at different levels within the organisation and engaging with them.
- Experience of working within a political environment with knowledge of a public sector setting and involvement in a large, complex environment
- Evidence of adopting a structured and planned approach

To read more about us please visit: Corporate Services

**Why Essex?** Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

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