Corporate Project Officer

4 weeks ago

Abingdon, United Kingdom South Oxfordshire District Council Full time

**Salary and grade**: Grade 6 £39,977 to £45,568

**Duration of role**: One year secondment cover

**Hours per week**: 37

**Location**: Home and Council Offices, Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JE

**Closing Date**:15/05/2023

**About the role and what we’re looking for**

We are seeking an organised, efficient and experienced project officer with fantastic communication skills to join our Programmes Team. This role will lead on a number of exciting housing projects for refugees and assist in providing project management expertise and support across the councils.

You will need to be able to show that you can work effectively and efficiently and deliver projects to deadlines. You will also need the communication and persuasion skills to transform our approach to project management and provide help and support to other service teams.

You’ll need to be highly proactive and have the ability to tactfully prioritise your projects with colleagues in a busy environment.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:

- taking specific responsibility for delivering major and complex projects within your allocated project caseload
- use the councils project management methodology to deliver projects on deadline and budget
- ensure that appropriate authority and governance signoffs are designed into project plans and are obtained as projects progress
- liaise with colleagues, senior managers, councillors and external stakeholders to ensure that projects progress in a timely and prioritised manner and arrange and chair meetings as appropriate
- maintain accurate records and update project plans governance documentation as necessary
- provide support, assistance and training to colleagues across the councils regarding the project management methodology and on the practical elements of delivering projects
- to provide costing and budget projections for projects and monitor spend against the project budget
- develop effective working relationships internally and externally
- writing formal and project update reports and presentations for head of service and service manager
- attending formal meetings such as Cabinet or full Council (as required).

The duties may vary from time to time without changing the nature of the post or the level of responsibility, and the post holder may also be required to carry out any other duties appropriate to the grading of the post.

**Your essential skills, knowledge and experience**
- experienced and skilled in project management
- well organised, completer finisher
- excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- effective negotiation, communication and presentation skills
- dynamism and drive, be a proven self-starter, enthusiastic, proactive and determined
- experience of planning and managing budgets
- excellent literacy and numeracy including report writing skills
- confident and outgoing, able to liaise effectively with people at senior level in organisations
- flexible approach, able to pick up new tasks quickly using own initiative

**Qualifications and Experience**
- educated to degree level or equivalent, or equivalent level of experience
- full and current driving licence
- a project management-based qualification
- experience of working in a local government environment

**Your style and behaviours**
- self motivated and enthusiastic
- good self-presentation and confidence
- strong organisational skills, effectively managing competing priorities
- positive and clear communication skills
- a can-do attitude
- ability to act on own initiative
- work with mínimal supervision but also work as part of a team
- ability to achieve targets and deadlines
- strong and clear oral and written skills
- ability to identify and then resolve problems
- ability to work flexibly and respond quickly when priorities change
- diplomacy and tactfulness, particularly when dealing with difficult situations or angry customers
- ability and willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends as required by the demands of the post

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